It would be great if reports could be customized within the program instead of having to use Crystal Reports. It works in Quickbooks!
Customizing Reports
We are currently reviewing development for this capability. Our first concern is to ensure your bookkeeping stands up to any audit or review. Because our software may use a different database protocol than other systems, it requires Crystal Reports in order to retrieve information. Crystal provides a way of reporting data without compromising the integrity of the database.
Rest assured, we will keep striving to make our software more usable while keeping the data secure, and the system as configurable as possible.
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Kim Thompson commented
As a former bank auditor and current Denali user, I shudder when I hear of 'easily customizable' reports. While I agree it is a pain to use Crystal or have Cougar Mountain support staff make the changes, the risk to some industries is huge. For example, I use Denali for a local municipality. Our township clerks are elected. They may or may not understand governmental accounting. Most auditors require financial statements to be prepared by the software and not manipulated in any way. To easy customize a report would create a situation where the data could be manipulated to hide fraud, the software produce the report, the auditor not know any different and the report changed back.
Rather than customize the reports, I like the Cougar Mountain approach to adding configurations to the report menu itself. Their quality control for design would ensure that all data is considered and the report title or footer could clarify the configuration settings used to generate the report.
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Sheila Murphy commented
Jean, we modified the balance sheet and Income statement by removing the header/footers for the Advance groupings using Crystal Reports. The suggestion I have is to have Denali add a "report" switch to these reports to remove or include the "Advance group" headers/footers
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Jean Wuebbels commented
The reports are our biggest problem...and is the reason we have considered new software. Each month I have to "re-do" the financial statements because of the way they look. If you have multiple accounts in different groupings and also others alone - well, it is a mess. The answer is correct, but the way it looks is awful. It takes me an extra 2 hours a month!
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Anonymous commented
This would be great going back and forth on a single point server and publishing and republishing is really confusing when only doing it monthly. Another list of some sort to keep custom reports would be great.