Learn how to flag missing accounts in your Sage Intelligence Financial Report Designer report layouts

Depending on your Sage business solution, you may or may not have the Missing Accounts feature in your Financial Report Designer report.  Even if you have this functionality, you are still not automatically alerted that account level detail may be missing from your layout.  In this tip, I’m going to share a way to identify […]

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5 real-life reasons why business intelligence is this accountants’ best friend

As an accountant, my most valuable commodity is time. Being responsible for daily capturing, month end procedures and group reporting, I often don’t have time to breathe! Fortunately, a lot of my responsibilities are hastened because I use business intelligence (BI), which helps me extract key information from large volumes of data directly from our […]

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SMEs need insight into data as much as big companies—if not more

In a climate of economic volatility, changing consumers, and globalized competition, small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perhaps need access to accurate, actionable business insight into data even more than bigger enterprises do. Most SMEs are operating on tight margins and don’t have endless reservoirs of cash and credit. They need up-to-the-minute information about trends in […]

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8 tips to use when working with reports in the Excel Report Designer for Sage Intelligence

Sage Intelligence Reporting Cloud provides convenience to you as it lets you work in whichever environment you’re most comfortable in. You can either choose to design reports in your browser through the Online Report Designer or in Excel—through the Excel Report Designer. When making use of the Excel Report Designer, there are a number of […]

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Learn how to turn a single-company report into a multi-company report

In Sage Intelligence, a number of reports are provided out-the-box for each Sage product. Most of these are standard ‘single company’ reports with some of them provided as consolidation versions—allowing you to aggregate data from multiple companies and create a multi-company report. It is, however, possible to turn any standard report into a consolidation report, […]

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