Reporting

13 articles

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   Reporting Overview

   > **What is this page about:** Light's reporting engine generates financial statements, custom reports, and pivot tables directly from your ledger.

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   Balance Sheet

   > **What is this page about:** Light generates balance sheets from the ledger for any entity, date, or currency.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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).

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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    Budget Scenarios

    > **What is this page about:** Light lets you upload budget scenarios as CSV files and compare them against your actual ledger data.

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    Exporting Reports

    > **What is this page about:** Light's reporting engine lets you export any report or drilldown as a CSV file.

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    Home Overview

    > **What is this page about:** The Home page is Light's dashboard for your organisation's financial position and pending work, shown the moment you log in. This page explains what widgets appear on Home, what each one shows, who can see them, and how the fixed two-column layout works.

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    ARR Tracking with Contracts

    > **What is this page about:** Light tracks Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) through the Contracts module and the SaaS Metrics dashboard.