The Financial Report Writer allows great flexibility in creating reports. You can create reporting hierarchies using all COA elements and you can easily change these at any time. The rows and columns of the reports can contain calculations, comparisons with previous periods, or side by side comparisons of entities, cost centers, projects, and so on.

To avoid duplication of effort, reusable analysis codes contain definitions for the data to include in the reports. For example, you can define groups or ranges of GL accounts once and reuse them on many reports.

This flexibility is possible because data from the different source domains is stored in report cubes. In the report cubes, the data is harmonized and stored in an optimal format for reporting. A report cube contains data that can come from many domains and this harmonized data allows for consistent reporting.