Financial reports for Finexo Books

Every accounting package ships dozens of reports and most businesses use four: what was sold, what is owed to us, what we owe, and where the tax position stands. The rest exist for a specific question on a specific day. Optimising for the four you read weekly matters more than the length of the report list.

The test of a report is whether you can act on it without exporting it first. If the answer to every question is 'download it and pivot it in Excel', the reporting layer is decoration and the spreadsheet is your real accounting system.

Client-managed books are read by two audiences with different needs. The business owner wants a position — profitability, receivables ageing, cash. The CA wants traceability: which entries make up this figure, and can I get from a summary line to the source document without asking someone.

Reports that drill down to the transaction serve both. It also shortens the review cycle: instead of a list of queries emailed to the client, the reviewer answers most questions themselves from the same screen.