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Create and manage financial statements

32:52 minutes total learning time
Learn how you can customize financial statement layouts and contents to fit your organization's needs by adding, removing, and reordering items.

9 videos in this learning module

1

Create a financial statement

3:15
2

Map accounts to a group

2:40
3

Add custom columns to financial reports

3:57
4

Manage streams and scenarios

3:47
5

Reference a single account code in calculations

1:50
6

Set up your Trial Balance Statement

2:18
7

Bring statistical streams into a Financial Statements database

3:39
8

Combine statistical and financial data for better business insights

5:54
9

Add a custom calculation to your Income Statement

5:32
Create a financial statement
Map accounts to a group
Add custom columns to financial reports
Manage streams and scenarios
Reference a single account code in calculations
Set up your Trial Balance Statement
Bring statistical streams into a Financial Statements database
Combine statistical and financial data for better business insights
Add a custom calculation to your Income Statement

Create a financial statement

Learn how to create a custom financial statement to suit your business needs from scratch.

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Map accounts to a group

Learn how to map accounts to any new or updated groups in your financial statements, to make sure they display correctly in the grid.

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Add custom columns to financial reports

If you have permission to customize statements, you can design your own version of a Profit and Loss statement and Balance Sheet statement by defining the columns that they contain, giving you much greater flexibility in the layout and analysis capabilities.

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Manage streams and scenarios

Learn how to manage your actuals, budgets, and other key data that appear in your financial statements—all in one place. The Manage Streams and Scenarios feature (also known as Combined Streams) gives you more flexibility and control over what data users can see when viewing your financial statements.

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Reference a single account code in calculations

Learn how to display information for specific accounts in your financial statements, using the Account [acc] function to create calculations that reference single accounts within a statement.

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Set up your Trial Balance Statement

Learn how to set up your trial balance statement and check end-of-period balances, total balances for Balance Sheet accounts, year-to-date balances for Profit and Loss accounts, and Retained Earnings excluding current-year Profit and Loss movements.

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Bring statistical streams into a Financial Statements database

In this video for administrators, Nick shows how to incorporate non financial information, such as 'units sold' or 'customers', into Phocas financial statements. Learn how to make these statistical streams available to users by adding them to the financial statements database in Designer.

Combine statistical and financial data for better business insights

Learn how to highlight revenue per customer, operating profit per customer and other business insights by combining statistical streams with financial information. In this video for the Finance Office, Nick shows how to use these streams in calculations that will add depth to your financial statements in Phocas.

Add a custom calculation to your Income Statement

In this video David takes you through customizing an Income (Profit & Loss) Statement, adding an EBITDA calculation and customizing account groupings - all from the 'front end' of Phocas.

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