Chapter 10. Exploring Financial Reporting and Analysis

The main principles of reporting are the reliability of business information and the ability to get the right information at the right time for the right person. Reports that analyze ERP data in an expressive way represent the output of the ERP implementation. Reporting is considered as the cream of the implementation and the next level of value that the solution stakeholders should aim for. This ultimate outcome results from building all reports based on a single point of information.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Planning reporting needs for ERP

• Understanding the information technology value chain

• Understanding Microsoft Dynamics AX information source blocks

• Discovering Microsoft Dynamics AX reporting

• Reporting options

• Reporting currency