Consolidated financial reports

Hi everyone,
I have two separate SAP Business One company databases and need to have consolidated reports for Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss from both (having separate balances for each and also a summary of the balances).
How can this be done using the development tools available for B1? Is there a stored procedure i can use to catch the event that creates the reports in then i can probably modify it to display from two databases? Or is there a template available somewhere for a report (e.g Crystal reports) that i can do this with?

Hi,
Just as it has been said, from scratch, B1 can't do anything for you.
For several customers I had the same exact problem. The way I handled it, was to create a consolidation database and "replicate" the transactions in it (only account summary and without common (eg. group) operations).
Then, we used standard reporting on the consolidation database.
an other solution (not inesthetic) would be to use the reporting services, or something equivalent.
Regards,
Eric

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When I am trying to run Financial Reports in workspace getting the following erroer.
*5200: Error executing query: Java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zerojava.lang.ArithmeticExceptoion*.
the issue with the only Planning reports. Consolidation reports are working fine.
I am not sure it is issue with database as last week oracle database got corrupted & fixed by client.
The next day onwards Planning Reports are not working.
Here are the log files:
FR REportSrv log
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com.hyperion.reporting.util.HyperionReportException: Error executing query: java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zerojava.lang.ArithmeticException
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at com.hyperion.reporting.results.ExecGrid.executeGridObject(Unknown Source)
at com.hyperion.reporting.results.ExecReport.executeReport(Unknown Source)
at com.hyperion.reporting.reportserver.FetchInstanceThread.runDesign(Unknown Source)
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Any Help would be greatly appreciated .
Regards
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Hi,
I'm actually facing the same issue with a report on a Planning datasource. It's quite strange because just one user has this problem and I can't find any specificity on this user, correct group, correct options, correct provisions, etc.
I'll try to change the data source to an Essbase datasource... even if I'd like to stay on the Planning datasource.
Any idea on this issue?

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Hello Gurus,
Background
I have a problem in finacial reports esp. Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss reports. When SAP ERP implemented, they have designed the FSV according to the country accounting and business requirements for external reporting. But the regional financial office in the UK requires a different way of reporting esp. the break up of costs in P&L.
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How you have designed the P&L and Balance sheet in BI?
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To be honnest, I didn't fully understand your case, but I got the general logic.
I would say that you first need to harmonize your data and apply to them the group business rules before doing your reporting. This can be done by different ways. The best one according to me is to define a consolidation chart of accounts (based on the group policy) and mapp these accounts to the operational accounts automatically using BI transformations. Then you'll be able to define your reportings based on this harmonized referential.

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Good day mentors,
        I have the dilemma of having to make a consolidated Financial Statement(FS) using 5 databases of SBO.
From my knowledge, XLReporter won't be able to handle multiple databases. So XLReporter is not a viable solution.
I only have Crystal Reports to rely on now(I acknowledge the fact that financial reports are hard to do in Crystal).
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A client of mine is doing an assessment of using BPC 5.1 as a financial report writing tool versus BI/BEx. They are not currently using BPC for either planning or consolidations but that might happen in the future. The financial data is being extracted from the SAP BI system and being reported on in this pilot implementation. There are a few questions I have:
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I think it is very common for customer to utilize the tool JUST for reporting. The idea is to utilize the tool for as many purposes as possible. Customers use it purly for Operational reporting, planning specific, functional specific, or just plain simplified way to get needed data into the users hands via excel and the ability to build reports on the fly or using predefined templates which are highly flexible.
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We have installed the new datasource for GL line items 0FI_GL_14 and loaded the data to a DSO. Installed the 0FI_GL_10 (totals infosource) as well.
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Now I want to know is it the correct way to create financial reports?
NO .. Its not.
Can we load totals and Line items to the same infocube?
NO
Do we have to load totals to a different DSO/Cube or same Cube?
Yes.. SAP has delivered C10 for Totals and O14 for line items... No point in creating cube for line items i.e. on top of O14.
Balance carry forward can be done on totals only (that is how totals extractor _10 is designed), U can not do that on the Line items. Pls contact functional consultant for clarification
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Can any one please explain me what is the difference between creating financial report for essbase application and planning application.
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Correct, the data that is stored in Essbase will be the same regardless of which connection type you use.
Data that is only stored in Planning can only be retrieved using a Planning connection. This includes Supporting Detail and SmartLists as these are stored in the Planning relational database.
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I've got a big issue in Hyperion Planning : I do not know which URL to use to open a financial report from a task list.
If I use the Smartcut (given when you do a right-click on the report, then Properties), a tab is opening (normal behaviour), but another tab is opening under the tab, which is very ugly, and moreover which prevent from using the PDF/HTML display icons !
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It's an emergency, please help !
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Hi,
OK, thanks, it almost works !!
I've just a problem. 2 tabs are opening.
One is opening correctly and displays my report. I can display it in PDF/HTML.
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Do you know why this tab is opening ?
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