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Built-in finance reports in Business Central

Business Central includes several built-in reports, tracing functions, and tools to help auditors or controllers who are responsible for reporting to the finance department.

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The following table describes some key financial reports. The reports are designed to help different roles in finance departments make informed decisions that optimise their operations.

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Audit and reconcile general ledger balances at the end of a period by viewing the net change, opening balance, each transaction in the period, and the closing balance grouped by G/L account. Detail Trial Balance About Detail Trial Balance 4
View a snapshot of your chart of accounts at a given point to check the debit and credit net change and closing balance. Trial Balance About Trial Balance 6
View a snapshot of your chart of accounts at a given point to check the debit and credit net change and closing balance compared to the same period in the previous calendar year. Trial Balance/Previous Year About Trial Balance/Previous Year 7
View a snapshot of your chart of accounts at a given point to check the debit and credit net change and closing balance compared to the budget. Trial Balance/Budget About Trial Balance/Budget 9
Check end of financial year figures, excluding closing entries, and compare this year and the previous year. Closing Trial Balance About Closing Trial Balance 10
Analyse your chart of accounts with a configurable view of general ledger accounts. Simplifies reporting for typical scenarios such as balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. Financial Report About Financial Report 25
Analyse your general ledger with dimension totals by building a groups of dimensions for combinations of dimension values, and calculate a general ledger balance total for each segment. Dimensions - Total About Dimensions - Total 27
Analyse your general ledger with dimension detail by building groups of dimensions for combinations of dimension values, and view a breakdown of general ledger entries for each segment. Dimensions - Detail About Dimensions - Detail 28
Understand the transactions for control general ledger accounts, and find discrepancies between general ledger and customer and vendor ledgers. Reconcile Cust. and Vend. Accs About Reconcile Cust. and Vend. Accs 33
Get a detailed breakdown of your closing balances over 12 accounting periods for each general ledger account. Trial Balance by Period About Trial Balance by Period 38
Get a combined overview of general ledger entries for two or more companies in one consolidated company. Use this report to analyse consolidated financial data from multiple companies. Learn more at Set Up Company Consolidation. Consolidated Trial Balance 10007
Get a combined overview of general ledger entries for two or more companies in one consolidated company. This version of the report lets you display up to four business units as columns. Learn more at Set Up Company Consolidation. Use this report to analyse consolidated financial data from multiple companies. Consolidated Trial Balance (4) 10008

Explore finance reports with Report Explorer

To get an overview of the reports that are available for finance, choose All Reports on your Home page. This action opens the Role Explorer, which is filtered to the features in the Report & Analysis option. Under the Finance heading, choose Explore.

Example of reports on the finance role centre

To learn more, go to Finding pages and reports with the role explorer.

See also

Accounts Receivable Reports and Analytics
Accounts Payable Reports and Analytics
Fixed Assets Reports and Analytics
Ad hoc analysis on finance data
Financial analytics
Setting Up Finance
Finance
Local Functionality Overview
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