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Every report on the Reports menu, submenu by submenu, with what it shows, the dates it asks for and where it is explained.
☰ Reports⌨ Alt+R
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Watch it in the appReports and drill-downThe Report Centre, Profit & Loss with drill-down, the Balance Sheet and A/R Aging.
The Reports menu opens every report SeroBooks produces, laid out the way QuickBooks Desktop's Reports menu is: the Report Centre and your memorized, scheduled and commented reports at the top, then one submenu per report category, then the two one-transaction reports at the bottom. Every report on it is one SeroBooks produces; QuickBooks Desktop reports that SeroBooks does not produce are left off rather than shown as empty pages.
Opening the Reports menu
Click Reports on the menu bar, or rest the pointer on it.
Or press Alt+R.
Point at a submenu (for example Company & Financial) to open it, then click a report.
How a report opens from this menu
A report opens straight away in the same report viewer the Report Centre uses, with its dates, filters, drill-down, memorize, print and export. See Running a report.
It opens over the Home Page. When you press Esc or close it, you are back on the Home Page, not in the Report Centre.
The window is titled with the menu's name for the report, and the report's own heading uses the same QuickBooks names (Vendor, not Supplier). A few reports still carry a different heading in the viewer; the tables below say where.
Reports need permission for the Report Centre. If your role cannot open the Report Centre, the reports are left off the submenus; a submenu still appears when it holds a screen your role can open (for example Accountant & Taxes ▸ Trial Balance). If the report cannot be read, the viewer says This report is not available — the server may need updating, or your role cannot read it.
Entries in the tables below that say Opens the … screen (for example Trial Balance or Sales Reports) open that screen in its own window instead, with that screen's own permission.
The Dates or shortcut column says what the report asks for: From and to dates (a period), As of one date (balances on a day), or No dates (the position as it stands now). You can change the dates in the viewer.
The top of the menu
Item
What it does
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Report Centre
Opens the Report Centre: every report, by category, with a description of each.
A grey line follows these, then the report submenus.
Company & Financial
Profit and loss, income and expense, exchange gains and losses, balance sheet, cash flow and ratios. Grey lines separate the profit and loss reports; income and expense by customer and vendor; gains and losses; the balance sheet reports; the cash flow reports; and, under the grey Accounting screens heading, the three Accounting screens.
Grey lines divide the submenu into three groups: Daily Sales Summary to Estimates by Customer; Sales by Month to Sales Returns by Item; and the two sales screens.
Item
What it shows
Dates or shortcut
Read more
Daily Sales Summary
The daily takings, excluding tax. The report's heading reads Sales by Day.
Grey lines separate the purchase and open purchase order reports; the purchase analysis reports (from Purchases by Month); and the Purchase Reports screen.
The banking reports, the reconciliation history, and (after a grey line) the three registers. The registers are the lists of cheques, deposits and card charges written so far; Banking ▸ Write Cheques, Enter Credit Card Charges and Make Deposits open the forms themselves (see Banking menu).
Previous Reconciliation and Reconciliation Discrepancy: choosing the account
Both items ask which account before anything else, as QuickBooks Desktop does:
The page opens over the Home Page and lists your bank and credit card accounts under Specify the account. Each shows whether it is a bank or credit card account, its masked number and when it was last reconciled.
Click the account.
Previous Reconciliation then lists every reconciliation of that account: Statement date, Account, Statement balance, Cleared balance and Status (signed off or undone), with Report to open the reconciliation report and Undo to take a reconciliation back. Undo asks for a reason, which stays on the record, and needs the permission to undo a reconciliation. Back closes the page.
Reconciliation Discrepancy goes straight to the discrepancy report for the account's last reconciliation: what has changed since it was signed off. If the account has never been reconciled, SeroBooks says …has not been reconciled yet, so nothing can have changed since.
If no bank or credit card accounts are set up, the page says so.
Accountant & Taxes
Item
What it shows
Dates or shortcut
Read more
Trial Balance
Opens the Trial Balance screen: debits and credits, account by account.
Asks for a document first. A small Transaction History window opens with one box, Document number (invoice, bill, cheque…). Type the number as it is printed on the document and press Enter or OK (Cancel closes it). The Transaction History report then opens over the Home Page, titled with the number: the document and every payment, credit and return linked to it.
Works the same way: type the document number, then the Transaction Journal report opens over the Home Page with the debits and credits the document and its payments posted.
The reports are missing from the submenus; only a few screens show. Your role cannot open the Report Centre, which the reports on the submenus use for their permission.
A report opens with "This report is not available". Your role cannot read that report, or the report is newer than the server your company is on. Ask your administrator.
Esc takes me to the Home Page instead of the Report Centre. Reports opened from this menu open over the Home Page on purpose. Open the Report Centre first (Reports ▸ Report Centre) if you want to go back to it.
Transaction History finds nothing. Type the document number exactly as printed. To search by customer or vendor name, use Edit ▸ Transaction History… instead.
Previous Reconciliation opens on a list of accounts. That is the first step: choose the account.