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Sage MAS 90 ERPSage MAS 200 ERP
B e n e f i t s :
Get your company’s financial status by • accessing up-to-the minute general ledger information
Perform conditional analysis to predict • business decision outcomes
Hotlink your General Ledger data to your• spreadsheet and incorporate your edited budgets
Turn your spreadsheets into an integral part of •your Sage MAS 90 or 200 ERP system
F9 Report Writer F9isaFinancialReportingapplication,whichdynamicallylinkstheSageMAS90andSageMAS200ERPGeneralLedgerdatatoMicrosoft®Excel®.ByemployingacombinationofsimplecellformulasinExcel,F9allowsGeneralLedgerdatainSageMAS90or200tobeformattedintoanydesiredfinancialreportintheflexibleandpowerfulenvironmentofthespreadsheet.TheF9ReportWizardallowsyoutogofromablankspreadsheettoafullyformatted,hot-linkedreportinjustseconds!Followagraphicalrepresentationandstep-by-stepprocedure;pointandclickyourwaytoafinishedreport,completewithF9formulas,automatically.
F9offersanunbeatablefeaturepackage,includingdrilldown,multipledateranges,listsofaccountsegments,andreportauditing.ItalsodoesallofthiswhilebeingdynamicallyhotlinkedtoGeneralLedger,ensuringthatallnumbersaretimely,consistent,andcomplete.
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Sage MAS 90 and 200 ERP I F9 Report Writer
FeaturesGraphical Presentation of Data
AnyTimeSlice
DataPreLoad
Multicompany Capabilities
Drill Down
Analyze
Multiple Fiscal Years
Report Wizard
Flexible Cell Reference
Create, Edit, and Write Budgets
Executive Information System (EIS) Functionality
General Ledger Function Wizard
Financial Entities
WGL Formulas
Account Enquiry
Thepresentationofyourfinancialinformationcanbeenhancedbytakingadvantageofthegraphics,text,andadd-incapabilitiesofyourspreadsheet.
Youcancreatefinancialreportsthatspananyperiod,evenaone-weekorone-dayProfitandLoss(P&L),ifdesired.
Byloadingallorpartofyourchartofaccountsintomemory,youcanspeedrecalculationtimesdramatically.
AccessGeneralLedgerdatafromanynumberofcompaniessimultaneously.Simplifyconsolidationacrossdepartments,divisions,orcompanies.
Findtheoriginofanynumberinyourspreadsheet—drilldownallthewaytotheindividualtransactionitself.Forexample,atotalrevenuefigurecanbeslicedintorevenuebydepartment,byproduct,orbylocation,andthatinformationcanbepastedintoyourspreadsheettoaugmentyourreport.
Reportoutofbalance?Withjustoneclick,theF9Analyzefeaturescanstheentirespreadsheet,helpingyoutroubleshootyourreportbyidentifyingmissingorduplicateaccounts.
YoucanaccessdatafromallSageMAS90or200fiscalyearsusingF9.
Youareguidedthroughreportcreationstepbystep;inseconds,youcancreateacompletefinancialreportwithallF9functions,formulas,andcellreferencesintact.
Supposeyouhavecreatedadepartmentalreportwithonecellcontainingthedepartmentcode“100,”forexample.Change“100”to“100,200”andyouhaveatwo-departmentconsolidatedreport.Change“100”to“*”andyouhaveanall-departmentsreport.
ReadBudgetandWriteBudgetbuttonsprovideamechanismforpassingbudgetsbackandforthbetweenyourGeneralLedgerandspreadsheet.Spreadsheetsareanoptimalenvironmentforcreatingandeditingbudgets,andF9makesiteasy.
WithF9,youcandriveF9functionalityfromwithinamacroorVisualBasicprogram.Createdialogboxes,menus,andbuttons,andusethemtoexploreyouraccountingnumbers,justasanexecutiveinformationsystemwould.
TheGeneralLedgerFunctionWizardenhancesproductivityandthecreationofreports.TheformulainsertstheappropriatenumberofcellsinthespreadsheettobuildanF9report.TheGeneralLedgerformulacontainsthecellreferencesrequiredtocompletethereport.
FinancialEntitiesextendstheutilityofF9formulas.GeneralLedgeraccountnumbersmaybespecified,usingeitherthesegmentvalueoritsdescription,astheyappearinthechartofaccounts.YoucanalsodefineyourownF9FinancialEntities.
WGLFormulasallowwritingbudgetinformationbacktotheF9Datamart’sgeneralledger.Asinglecellofinformationcanbewrittenbacktothebudgetfiles.WhileBudgetWriteBackisforbatchupdates,WGLallowsaccountstobeupdatedindividually.
JustlaunchF9,selecttheaccountsyouwantabalancefrom,andclickGetBalance.WithAccountEnquiry,youcanobtainaccountbalancesfromyourGeneralLedgerwithoutusingyourspreadsheet.Makesqueriesfastandeasy.
F9isaproductofSystemsUnionandisdistributedunderlicensebySage.
“WeconvertedtoSageMAS200
[withF9]withoutsomuchasahiccup,
andsuddenlyallthedataweneeded
totracksaleswasrightthereat
ourfingertips.”
Kurt L. Peterson, Vice President of Finance
Oregon Chai