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Reporting
Reporting Overview
> **What is this page about:** Light's reporting engine generates financial statements, custom reports, and pivot tables directly from your ledger.
Balance Sheet
> **What is this page about:** Light generates balance sheets from the ledger for any entity, date, or currency.
Profit and Loss
> **What is this page about:** The Profit and Loss statement (P&L) measures your company's financial performance over a specific period, showing revenue, expenses, and resulting profit or loss.
Cash Flow Statement
> **What is this page about:** The Cash Flow Statement in Light shows how cash moved into, out of, and between the operating, investing, and financing activities of your business over a period.
Trial Balance
> **What is this page about:** A Trial Balance is a worksheet listing all general ledger (GL) accounts and their debit or credit balances, used to confirm that total debits equal total credits.
Tables and Pivot Reports
> **What is this page about:** Light gives you two ways to build your own reports from ledger data — a **Table report** (a template where you design the rows and columns and drive each cell with a formula) and a **Pivot table report** (which cross-tabulates your ledger across dimensions and aggregates a single measure per cell).
Multi-Entity Consolidation
> **What is this page about:** Light's consolidated report view combines the financial results of multiple entities into a single report, with a dedicated column for intercompany eliminations.
Multi-Currency Reporting
> **What is this page about:** Light lets you view reports in each entity's own local currency or translated into a shared group currency.
Custom Reports
> **What is this page about:** Light's custom report builder lets you create Table reports — structured, formula-driven financial reports in the same format as Light's built-in statements.
Budget Scenarios
> **What is this page about:** Light lets you upload budget scenarios as CSV files and compare them against your actual ledger data.
Exporting Reports
> **What is this page about:** Light's reporting engine lets you export any report or drilldown as a CSV file.
Home Overview
The Home page gives you a quick summary of your organisation's financial position and pending work as soon as you log in to Light.
ARR Tracking with Contracts
> **What is this page about:** Light tracks Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) through the Contracts module and the SaaS Metrics dashboard.