Reviewing financial information

There are several tools that you can use to review your financial information:

Tool	Description
Analyze Balance Sheet	The Analyze Balance Sheet window provides details about your asset, liability and equity accounts in both graphical and ledger views.
Analyze Profit & Loss	The Analyze Profit & Loss window provides detailed information about your Profit & Loss accounts in both graphical and ledger views.
Business Insights	Using the Business Insights feature, you can view graphs and summaries showing fiscal year comparisons of profits, turnover, and operating balances, etc. You can also print reports relating to each window as you go.
Analyze Jobs	The Analyze Jobs window allows you to view information about your progress on a particular job, broken down by account.
Financial reports	Financial reports help you review your financial information.

To analyze your balance sheet

1	Go to the Accounts command centre and click Analysis. The Analyze Balance Sheet window appears.

2	Click Filters and choose the time periods and other criteria you want to view.

3	Click OK. The information you selected appears in the Analyze Balance Sheet window.

For more information about the graph features, see Using graphs.

To analyze your profit or loss

1	From any command centre, click the Analysis down arrow and select Profit and Loss from the menu. The Analyze Profit & Loss window appears.

2	Click Filters and choose the time periods and other criteria you want to view.

3	Click OK. The information you selected appears in the Analyze Profit & Loss window.

For more information about the graph features, see Using graphs.

To use Business Insights

1	Go to the Accounts command centre and click Business Insights. The Business Insights window appears.

2	Select the fiscal years you want to compare.

3	If you want to include 13th period amounts, select the Include 13th period values in the analysis option.

4	Click Next or select a topic in the left side of the window.

5	If you want to, you can print a report from any analysis window by clicking Print.

6	When you have finished viewing the analysis, click Close.

To analyze your jobs

1	From any command centre, click the Analysis down arrow and select Jobs from the menu. The Analyze Jobs window appears.

2	In the Job field, select the job you want to analyze and press Tab.

3	If you use budgets to track the progress of this job, enter a value in the Percent Complete field. The budget amounts are adjusted to represent the percentage of the job completed.

To view financial reports

1	Go to the Reports menu at the top of the screen and choose Index to Reports. The Index to Reports window appears.

2	Click the Accounts tab.

There are several account reports that can help you track your financial information. These reports are listed below.

Report	Description
Audit Trail	Reviews changes made to recorded transactions, tax codes, account details and system settings. Note that before you can track and report changes, you need to activate the audit trail tracking preference. For more information, see Audit trail tracking system.
Profit & Loss	Shows your profit and loss figures.
Balance Sheet	Reviews your financial position as of the end of a period.
Trial Summary Balance	Identifies incorrectly entered amounts. When reviewing this report, check for: • entries that seem unusually high or low for the account that has been affected • debit amounts for accounts that normally have credit entries and vice versa • unusually high or low ending balances • an unusually high or low number of entries for a specific account.
Balance Sheet Budget Analysis	Lists account balances as of the end of a selected period, along with the budgeted amounts. If you’ve determined that changes need to be made to the budgets for the coming months, you can adjust your budget.
Profit & Loss Budget Analysis	Lists account balances for a selected period, along with the budgeted amounts. If you’ve determined that changes need to be made to the budgets for the coming months, you can adjust your budget.
Statement of Cash Flow	Shows how your cash position has changed over a period of time, what profit you have earned, where you received additional cash, and where your cash was spent.

For information on displaying, customizing and printing reports, see Reports.

Related topics

■	Tracking financial information

■	Auditing your records

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Budgets