It’s almost year end. That means in January you’re going to get bunch of requests from auditors, bankers, investors, you name it, for AP, AR and Inventory data as of a specific date, probably 12/31. “No problem”, you think, “GP can handle point in time historical reporting”…until they want it in Excel, and they always want it in Excel. That’s where it gets ugly. Historical reporting in Excel for Dynamics GP is hard. You can export the report writer reports and clean up all the page headers and weird multi-line stuff. You can try to send the SSRS versions to Excel, they are a little better, but not much. You can build your own version using random code found on the internet and hope it all works.
None of those are fast or easy. That’s why I built a set of Excel based historical reports for GP. These reports use the stored procedures that Microsoft shipped with GP for the SSRS versions of GP historical reporting. The set includes historical trial balances for AP, AR, Inventory and the Historical Stock Status report. (For the technical/acronym inclined that’s HATB AP, HATB AR, HSS, and HITB).
The set is $349 for an enterprise license. Frankly, you’ll spend a lot more than that just cleaning up report writer exports. Heaven forbid you have to rerun one after you’ve done all of that cleanup. Just run the GP reports, validate them against the Excel versions and you’re in business.
Historical reporting in Excel shouldn’t bee this hard. That’s why I’ve tried to make it easy. You can find out more at the Historical Excel Reporting page.
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