There are several valuable new capabilities to Management Reporter, and Microsoft has increased the translations to a total of 36 languages.
With the latest release, Management Reporter is added to the General Ledger and Budget Planning menus in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, to make it easier for you to access financial reports created with Management Reporter.
(The financial statement options that you may have used in prior versions are still available with a configuration option, if needed.)
Management Reporter can be used to create statutory and operational reports based upon your general ledger data. Empower your managers with real-time insights into organizational results; so that they can take action to meet corporate goals.
• No need to create a connection to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 General Ledger (GL) – Management Reporter is directly integrated with your GL
• Build custom reports based on Microsoft Dynamics AX ledger accounts and dimensions – with the ability to slice general ledger information into: Rows, Columns, or Hierarchies .
Robust formatting helps highlight key areas on a report and create boardroom quality reports.
With Management Reporter, you can create financial reports based upon the following data from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012:
◦Accounts
◦Budget Data
◦Financial Dimensions
◦Cash Flow Forecasts
◦Calendars/Fiscal Periods
◦Budget Reservations
◦Posting Layers
◦Adjustments
◦Account Categories
◦Currencies
◦Organizational Hierarchies
◦Totaling Accounts
◦Actual GL Data
•Financial data mart for optimized performance — Management Reporter data mart holds the necessary financial data needed for financial reporting. Data from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is continuously moved to the data mart. The data mart is optimized for financial reporting and, with proper report design, helps increase performance of financial report generation.
•Drill-down to transaction detail for quick audits — Generate summary-level reports with the capability to drill down to account-level and transaction-level details without having to generate separate reports. Supports drill from account and budget balances on a report to related information in Microsoft Dynamics AX if more information on a specific transaction is needed.
•Consolidate the way you need to see it – Create consolidated financial reports across companies or business units; interoperate with Microsoft Excel® to support importing consolidation data from other sources, and translate into an unlimited number of reporting currencies without having to run the consolidation process in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
•Schedule delivery of new reports – Improve communication across the organization by distributing reports to multiple locations, including Microsoft SharePoint® or any network location, and schedule reports for generation on a periodic basis.
•Interactive, intuitive web-based report viewing — Drive decisions from the report data that’s delivered in an interactive web based report viewing experience.
Who can use Management Reporter?
Management Reporter 2012 CU6 is translated for all supported Microsoft Dynamics AX countries. For details on product availability, please refer to the product availability, translation and localization guide located here.
How do you get Management Reporter?
Depending upon which version of Microsoft Dynamics AX you’re using, you may already have registration keys for Management Reporter.
•Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 – Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 includes registration keys for Management Reporter. .
•Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 – verify in CustomerSource if you have Management Reporter registration keys. If you need to purchase Management Reporter registration keys, please contact us
Want to learn more?
To learn more about Management Reporter, read the post in the Corporatef Performance Management folder
Expect another cumulative update wih yet more features – soon!
