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Management Reports / Client Financials

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Updated over a week ago

The Management Report, sometimes referred to as Client Financials or the Financial Report, includes the following:

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

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.

How to change order of financial statements in management reports

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 (โ€“) 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:

  1. Practice Settings (โš™๏ธ icon)

  2. Practice and Statements

  3. Click the Legal Disclaimers tab

From here, you are able to set separate Cover Page and Footer disclaimers.

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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!


Downloadable example of the financial report:

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