Management Reports / Client Financials
The Management Report, sometimes referred to as Client Financials or the Financial Report, includes the following:
A Cover Page
Table of Contents
Full Profit and Loss (P&L), Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows
There are additional Profit and Loss (P&L) and Balance Sheet reports if needed
The Profit and Loss Detail Report
Top Customers by Revenue
Top Vendors by Spend
A/P and A/R aging reports
Graphs of key business metrics
Any sections that are not relevant to your particular client can be disabled before publishing the report.
Tour the Reporting Tab
In this video, follow Ben as he walks through the Reporting tab in the client close!
To access the Management Reports, navigate to the Reporting tab under the client's close.
From the Reporting tab, you can update Settings such as
Report Titles
Basis (Cash or Accrual)
Create a template from your current settings
On the Cover Page, you can choose to add a client logo or your own practice logo. Toggle between Option A and Option B to preview the layout.
On the Executive Summary,
Choose to Add Executive Summary Note
Update Comparison Settings
Choose Key Metrics and Bar Chart Settings
The A/P and A/R Aging Summaries can be run by
As of the end of the close
As of today (current date)
Add a Metrics page to add graphs from financials. You can also track KPIs in your Metrics tab!
Report Order
To change the order of the reports in the Financial Package section of the Management Report, click the hamburger menu and then choose the order of your financials.
Check out your Practice Settings for more customization tools!
Navigate to Practice Settings
Choose the Statements & reporting tab under Practice & statements
From here choose to enable/disable a number of features
Rounding (to the nearest dollar)
Show currency sign everywhere (vs just on total rows)
Monochrome insights
Prepared on
Prepared by
Set accent color
You can also update your Reporting settings in bulk under All client settings and navigating to the Reporting tab.
Example Management Report
Click below to view a sample Management Report package or scroll to the bottom of the article to download:
Disabling and Excluding Reports
If there are any reports that you do not want to include in your client's reporting package, you can delete them by clicking the Exclude (–) button next to that report's name. You can always re-add any report at any time by clicking the Add report.
The Cover Page, Table of Contents, and Executive Summary pages cannot be excluded at this time.
Footnotes and Disclaimers
Income Statement Footnotes
To add Footnotes to your client's Income Statement(s), click the Footnotes button in the top bar and add your notes to the lines you'd like to annotate.
You can also add footnotes to your client's financials from your Account Reconciliation tasks on the close page.
Legal Disclaimers
You can set practice-level legal disclaimers for your reports by going to:
Practice Settings (⚙️ icon)
Practice and Statements
Click the Legal Disclaimers tab
From here, you are able to set separate Cover Page and Footer disclaimers.
Delivering the Management Report
You can deliver Management Reports by emailing, printing as a PDF, or adding it directly to the Client Portal.
Choose to Publish at the top of the Reporting tab
Financials Access in the Client Portal
If you want your clients to see these reports, enable financial access in the Client Portal.
Click Portal at the top of the close page
Check the corresponding box to enable Financial Access
Choose Preview (the eye icon) to take a look at the Client Portal and see what your contact will see!
Once you have published your reports to the portal, you can also view them on the Client List.
Uploading your own Report to the Client Portal
If you use a different tool to create your management reports, you can upload those to Keeper instead of using Keeper's report builder.
To do this, go to reporting, click Publish, and then choose "Upload & publish custom report".
At this time, Keeper only supports publishing one report to the portal per close period.
Looking for more information on Reporting Best Practices? Check out the Reporting Best Practices & FAQs article!