In the next two chapters, we'll explore the Management Reporter application. Management Reporter is a great tool to use when our goal is to enable multiple, non-IT users to create professional-looking financial statements based on source data from our ERP environment. Management Reporter is Microsoft's platform used to create a single performance management solution that can be used across the entire Microsoft Dynamics stack. The release of such a product represents a break from the old way of creating financial reports via Microsoft FRx. Microsoft will more than likely continue to build upon and improve the technology and functionality of Management Reporter.

Because Management Reporter offers direct integration with our source databases, we can expect our reports to display information that is up-to-date as of the moment we generate a particular report. Additionally, as was the case with its predecessor, Microsoft FRx, Management...