Creating Financial Reports with the Financial Report Painter

Course 355 - 1 Day - 0.6 CEU

How is it possible to create internal financial statements and meet the external demands of government agencies, investors, creditors, and others for accurate and timely financial information? The Financial Report Painter is designed for the special needs associated with creating, calculating and presenting financial information like balance sheets, consolidations, cash flow and profit and loss statements, budgets and variances. You will use the Financial Report Painter to create financial reports from data sources with varying degrees of consolidation.

You Will Learn How To:

• Start a financial report
• Design financial reports using the Financial Report Painter:
  • Use consolidated data sources
  • Use unconsolidated data sources
  • Supply data directly
  • Save and retrieve intermediate data
  • Perform inter-row calculations
  • Perform inter-column calculations
  • Insert rows of text
  • Suppress the display of report rows and columns
  • Add, insert and delete rows
  • Edit row types and properties
  • Add and delete columns
  • Use the range, multi-select, and wild card options
• Report dynamically from a hierarchy of accounts
• Report from base level accounts
• Aggregate financial data manually
• Link to a detail drill down report
• Enable metadata for financial reporting

Who Should Take This Course:
Developers, business analysts, financial analysts, power users and other users of WebFOCUS Developer Studio or Power Reporter.

Prerequisite:
Courses 351, Building Reports with Report Painter (Part 1), and 354, Building Reports with Report Painter (Part 2), or equivalent WebFOCUS Developer Studio or Power Reporter. Should be familiar with the Report Painter, Join Tool, Define Tool, and Computes. <