Financial
Statements
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Financial statements give a picture of how your business is doing. In
one sense, the whole point of an accounting system is to produce accurate
financial statements.
When you display or print a financial statement, Sage 50 displays
the following options:
- Dates: You have the choice
of a range of periods, current period, or current three periods. If you
select a range, use the From and To list boxes.
- Budget: Select the budget to use for many financial statements. (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
- Account Segments: You can use the Account Segments fields
to limit the totals that appear on your financial statement to particular
departments, divisions, or whatever other segments you have set up. Each
segment of your chart of accounts will appear and you can select a particular
segment by using the drop-down lists. If you do not want to limit the
totals on the report, simply leave the selections set to All.
With this setting, your report will show totals for all accounts, even
those that do not match the account segment structure. This field can
also be used as a sub-filter for a financial statement that is already
filtered. For instance, you may have a statement that filters for a single
division yet includes several departments. You can use this field to further
filter for a single department. Should you inadvertently set up filtering
that eliminates all data, Sage 50 will display
a message warning you of this situation. Tell me more about Account
Segments. (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
- Print Page Numbers: Checking
this will print page numbers on the top right corner of the page. Both
the page number and the number of pages are indicated. For example, if
you are looking at page 2 of a 13-page document, it will display on the
report as "Page: 2 of 13."
- Show Zero Amounts: Select
this check box to show accounts with zero amounts.
- Print All Words Capitalized: Select this check box if you want the report
to print in all capital letters.
- Right Margin/Left Margin: Enter the size of the margins you want, in
inches.
- Center on Page: Select this check box
if you want the printed statement to be centered rather than left justified
on the form.
- Number of Copies: Enter
the number of copies you want to print. You can enter any number from
1 to 99.
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