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  • April 24, 2023
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How To create / Design Custom Date Financial Reports  in Acumatica? 

Best answer by Laura03

Hello @jvarughese23 ,

I think your report request is very difficult to produce accurately.

Acumatica would need to calculate 2/15 totals using 1/31 period ending balances for every account, plus or minus every transaction from 2/1 to 2/15 based on the account type.

How will the report handle a transaction that is dated 1/14 and posted to period 1 in your example?  Will the transaction be included, or excluded? Excluding a transaction dated 1/14 will make the Balance Sheet for 1/15/2023 to 2/15/2023 incorrect.  Excluding a transaction dated 1/14 will make the P & L for 1/15/2023 to 2/15/2023 correct.

One way to expand financial reporting is to consider using Weeks as Financial Periods as discussed in this prior post:

 

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Thank you.

 

Laura

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Laura03
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  • April 24, 2023

Hello @jvarughese23 ,

Are you asking how to create a P & L or Balance sheet “as of” a date that is not the end of a fiscal period?

It will help us to answer if you can give us more detail and a screen shot, example of what you need.  Thank you!

 

Laura

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Hello @Laura02 

 

Yes, The financial Report as of date   for Eg..  P& L  or Balance Sheet   from 01/15/2023 to 02/15/2023(custom date)  instead of Period , Kindly Advise

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  • April 24, 2023

Hello @jvarughese23 ,

I think your report request is very difficult to produce accurately.

Acumatica would need to calculate 2/15 totals using 1/31 period ending balances for every account, plus or minus every transaction from 2/1 to 2/15 based on the account type.

How will the report handle a transaction that is dated 1/14 and posted to period 1 in your example?  Will the transaction be included, or excluded? Excluding a transaction dated 1/14 will make the Balance Sheet for 1/15/2023 to 2/15/2023 incorrect.  Excluding a transaction dated 1/14 will make the P & L for 1/15/2023 to 2/15/2023 correct.

One way to expand financial reporting is to consider using Weeks as Financial Periods as discussed in this prior post:

 

Did you vote for your idea here?

Thank you.

 

Laura

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Is it Possible to generate a monthly P&L report in ARM that can span across multiple fiscal years based on user-selected Start Period and End Period.

Example:

  • Start Period: 01-2025
  • End Period: 05-2026

The expectation is to display month-by-month P&L columns dynamically for the selected range (17 months in this example).

Currently, it appears that ARM requires predefined columns for each month/period, meaning:

  • 12-month report requires 12 predefined columns
  • 17-month report requires 17 predefined columns
  • 24-month report requires 24 predefined columns

Can anyone confirm:

  1. Whether ARM supports truly dynamic column generation based on Start/End Period?
  2. Is there any recommended approach to avoid maintaining multiple predefined column sets?
  3. Has anyone implemented a rolling multi-year monthly P&L report efficiently in Acumatica?
  4. Are there any best practices using column sets, row sets, variables, or Generic Inquiries for this scenario?

Appreciate any guidance or suggestions from the community.

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