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Enhances the presentation of your data by allowing you
to take advantage of the graphics, text and add-in capabilities of Excel.
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Provides optimum flexibility by allowing you to create
financial reports that span any period, even one-week or one-day reports
if desired.
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Loads all or part of your chart of accounts into
memory. This dramatically decreases recalculation times and increases the
overall efficiency of your workgroup.
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Provides access to general ledger data from any number
of companies simultaneously. This simplifies consolidation across
departments, divisions or companies and can boost your productivity.
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Locates the origin of any number in your spreadsheet by
drilling down all the way to an individual transaction. For example, a
total revenue figure can be sliced into revenue by department, by product
or by location, and that information can be pasted into your spreadsheet
to augment your report.
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With the click of a button, F9's Analyze feature scans
the entire spreadsheet, helping you to troubleshoot your report by
identifying missing or duplicate accounts.
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You can access data from all Sage
BusinessWorks fiscal
years using F9.
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Guides you through report creation step by step. You
can create a complete financial report with all F9 functions, formulas and
cell references intact in a matter of seconds with the Report Wizard.
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Provides flexible turnkey options. Suppose you have
created a departmental report with one cell containing the department code
(e.g., 100). Change 100 to 200, and you have a two-department
consolidated report. Change 100 to an asterisk (*) and you have an
all-departments report.
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Enables a mechanism for passing budgets back and forth
between your general ledger and spreadsheet, saving you valuable time and
eliminating entry errors.
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Easily creates and edits budgets, saving you hours
throughout the year.
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Provides an additional method of updating budget
information with a WGL formula. WGL lets you update budget accounts on an
individual basis, allowing more flexibility in developing forms for the
budget process.
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Allows you to create dialog boxes, menus and buttons.
You can use them to easily access and maintain your accounting numbers.
This provides much of the functionality you'd find in an executive
information system and can help you make more informed, profit-boosting
decisions.
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Enhances productivity by significantly simplifying the
creation of reports with a general ledger Function Wizard. The
appropriate numbers of cells are automatically inserted in the spreadsheet
to build an F9 report. The general ledger formula contains the cell
references required to complete the report.
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Provides extensive formula functionality with Financial
Entities. General ledger account numbers may be specified, using either
the segment value or its description, as they appear in the chart of
accounts. You can also define your own F9 Financial Entities.
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Offers powerful Account Inquiry capabilities, giving
you the knowledge you need to boost sales productivity. Just launch F9,
select the account(s) from which you want a balance, and click Get
Balance. With Account Inquiry, you can obtain account balances from your
general ledger without using your spreadsheet. This makes queries fast
and easy.
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Takes the setting from the previous Account Inquiry Get
Balance request and pastes a formatted general ledger function on the
active sheet, saving you time.
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Easily create HTML documents using F9.
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Quickly summarize large amounts of general ledger data
with F9 and the Microsoft Excel Pivot tables. This feature allows you to
rotate rows and columns, filter data to display on different pages, or
display the details for areas of interest.