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Reporting Best Practices & FAQs

Reporting and financial statement commonly asked questions & best practices

Updated over a month ago

Rounding Financial Statements

Enabling rounding will round your financial statements rounded to the nearest dollar.

To turn on rounding for financial statements, go to:

  1. Practice Settings (⚙️ icon)

  2. Click Practice and Statements

  3. Click the Statements and Reporting tab

  4. Check Enable rounding


Delivering Financials for Prior Periods

When you go to the Reporting tab, the period that the reporting is based on is the close month that you're currently in. So if you want to deliver financials from prior periods, you need to go to an older close (or create one if you haven't).

Click the arrow next to the current client close period in order to switch between different closes.


Adding Legal Disclaimers

You can set practice-level legal disclaimers for your management reports by going to:

  1. Practice Settings (⚙️ icon)

  2. Practice and Statements

  3. Click the Legal Disclaimers tab

    1. You can set separate Cover Page and Footer Page legal disclaimers.

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Accounts on Key Profit & Loss / Key Balance Sheet Pages

To add key accounts to the Key Profit and Loss or Key Balance Sheet pages of the management reporting section:

  1. Navigate to the close page's Close tab

  2. Scroll to the Final Review closing task section

  3. Hover your cursor next to an account

  4. Select the star 🌟 to note a key account

A key account in Keeper

Starred accounts on the P&L and Balance Sheet closing tasks will appear on the Key Profit and Loss or the Key Balance Sheet page in your Management Reports.


Collapsing Accounts in the Management Report

To collapse the accounts in the Profit and Loss report to show only Parent Accounts, enable the Collapsed setting in the report.

You can also enable Collapsed on the Balance Sheet to roll up all accounts to their corresponding categories. For example, this will roll up all bank accounts to the Bank Accounts category).

How to collapse accounts in management report

Profit & Loss by Class and Location

To filter your P&L by Class and Location,

  1. Confirm that your Class and/or Location filters are enabled under Client Settings

  2. In the Reporting tab, select Add Report > Profit & Loss

  3. Select Filters (class and/or location)

  4. Add Footnotes to highlight any trends


Budget vs Actuals

Our new budget vs. actuals reports let you seamlessly import budgets from QuickBooks Online into your clients’ management report packages.

It's now easier than ever to track monthly, quarterly, or year-to-date performance, and quickly point out areas that may need closer monitoring!

Get your clients the information they need without spending time on manual updates or sending separate deliverables.

The video below walks you through how to add this:


Changing the Order of Financial Statements

To change the order of the reports in the Financial Package section of the Management Report,

  • Hover over the report

  • Select the 6 dots to the left of the report title

  • Drag the report to the desired location

Only reports in the Financial Package section of the Management Report are able to be re-ordered.


Updating Report Titles

If you call your Profit and Loss an Income Statement or you work with nonprofits and call it a Statement of Activity, you can change the titles of your reports in the Management Reports!

To change your report titles,

  • Navigate to Settings under your Reporting tab

  • Select Edit next to Report Titles

  • You can update the titles to your preference from there


Right Justifying Financial Statements

To right justify the columns in your financial statements:

  1. Navigate to your Practice Settings (⚙️ icon)

  2. Click Practice and Statements

  3. Click Statements and Reporting

  4. Check ✔️ Enable Right Justified Reports

Enabling the right justified reports setting will right-justify ALL financial statements in ALL Management Reports generated for ALL clients.


Reporting FAQs

How can I run a comparative income statement with the total for the year instead of showing all the months?

You can run a comparative income statement with the total for the year by enabling the Custom Column on the Profit & Loss by selecting Calendar YTD for the date range.

Some of the buttons are greyed out on my Reporting and Metrics tabs, how can I change this?

If your Settings button is greyed out under your Reporting tab, or if you notice that the + Add Visual button is also greyed out, you may have Report Lock enabled in your Practice Settings. You can disable this under your practice's Statements & Reporting settings.

Looking for more on Financial Reporting features? Check out our Management Reports / Client Financials article!

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