The ability to produce comprehensive and complex reports is an essential part of any financial system. SunSystems has powerful and flexible reporting tools.
TB – Trial Balance report is a fundamental accounting report. Running this report you can only select transactions by accounting period or transaction date. FA – Financial Analysis report gives you more control over the layout of your report and transaction selection; you can create your own trial balance report using this function. This report can produce up to 12 columns with different accounting data: Opening Balance, Period Movements and so on. Up to three sort levels are available to determine the sequencing and totaling of the report data.
FT – Financial Tables report is more complex reporting tool than FA – Financial Analysis. Financial Table report can be compared to a matrix where you can control both the information in the rows and columns. You can create different FTC – Financial Table Columns and FTR – Financial Table Rows formats and combine them in different ways in FTF – Financial Table Formats. Financial Table reports can be produced from FT – Financial Tables function.

The Types of Financials Reports
There are four classes of reports in SunSystems:

Static Data Reports
Static data reports list information about static data records. For example chart of accounts listings, currency code lists etc. These reports can be selected from the Navigation menu, or produced by selecting the Report option on the corresponding static data function.
Standard System Reports
All of the SunSystems processing functions produce standard audit trail reports. For example, the Corporate Allocations reports, Ledger Import report etc. These reports are produced automatically by the appropriate function and cannot be run independently.
User Definable Reports
SunSystems offers a number of user definable reporting options, each one designed to fulfil specific requirements.

As an end user, you cannot control the appearance of these reports, but you do have control over some aspects of the reports depending on the report's parameters. For example, the report parameters may allow you to select the accounts or codes to be included in the report, and the accounting periods required.

The user definable reports can be categorized as follows:

Financial/Management Reports
SunSystems provides three financial report writers: Financial Analysis, Financial Statements, and Financial Tables. Each offers a variety of features that assist you in preparing reports:

You must define the reports you require from these financial report writers. Once a report has been defined it can be produced at any time.