Executing a Report for Actual / Actual Quarterly Comparison  

You can execute a report at various steps:

  1. From the initial R/3 screen, choose Information systems ® Accounting ® Financial accounting ® General ledger ® Report selection.
  2. From the G/L menu, choose Periodic processing ® Info system ® Report selection.

Prerequisites: Include report in reporting tree

The first step after defining a new report is to include it in the report tree using the Create function. To do this, from the General Ledger IMG, choose the activity "Define Report Selection".

Afterwards, proceed as follows:

  1. Within the report tree, expand the information system node until you reach the node in which you want to include the new report.
  2. Double-click that node.
  3. On the following screen, choose Create and on the next screen, choose Different type.
  4. Choose "Drilldown" as the report type.
  5. Enter the application class. FBR is the application class for Financial Accounting.
  6. On the following screen, select "Financial statement analysis" as the report type and choose the technical name of the report by pressing F4.

    7. The system includes the report in the node.

  7. Save the tree structure.

For more information on the functions available in the reporting tree, see the documentation in the General Ledger Accounting Implementation Guide for the activity "Define reports" under Information Systems" .

Enter Settings for Executing the Report

By choosing the Generate list function or double-clicking the report, you can start the report you select. Before actually executing the report, specify (using Change settings) values for the characteristics and variables that you have defined in your forms and reports.

You can enter values for the following characteristics in your quarterly report:

You can enter values for the following variables:

To valuate the variable you used for the fiscal year characteristic, you must enter 1995 in the Year field. You must then specify the quarter for which you want to run the report. For example, if you want to display the fourth quarter, enter 4/1995 in the Quarter field.

The system valuates the variables as follows:

You used the &3FY (fiscal year) and &3PF to &3PT (quarter) variables in the first column of your report. In the second column of your report, you specified the variable &3FY-1 as the fiscal year.

If you now specify the contents of the variables, the system enters fiscal year 1995 and quarter 010 to 016 in the first column. The second column contains the fiscal year 1994 and quarter 010 to 016. For more information on this, see Valuating Variables.

You can also specify the currency for your report (company code currency, group currency, hard currency, index currency, and global company currency).

After making all your settings, save them and execute the report for the required organizational unit (company, company code, business area). The values you save remain in the system so that you can execute the report again.