Sage MAS 90 ERPSage MAS 200 ERP

B e n e f i t s :

Get your company’s financial status by • accessing up-to-the minute general ledger information

Perform conditional analysis to predict • business decision outcomes

Hotlink your General Ledger data to your• spreadsheet and incorporate your edited budgets

Turn your spreadsheets into an integral part of •your Sage MAS 90 or 200 ERP system

F9 Report Writer F9isaFinancialReportingapplication,whichdynamicallylinkstheSageMAS90andSageMAS200ERPGeneralLedgerdatatoMicrosoft®Excel®.ByemployingacombinationofsimplecellformulasinExcel,F9allowsGeneralLedgerdatainSageMAS90or200tobeformattedintoanydesiredfinancialreportintheflexibleandpowerfulenvironmentofthespreadsheet.TheF9ReportWizardallowsyoutogofromablankspreadsheettoafullyformatted,hot-linkedreportinjustseconds!Followagraphicalrepresentationandstep-by-stepprocedure;pointandclickyourwaytoafinishedreport,completewithF9formulas,automatically.

F9offersanunbeatablefeaturepackage,includingdrilldown,multipledateranges,listsofaccountsegments,andreportauditing.ItalsodoesallofthiswhilebeingdynamicallyhotlinkedtoGeneralLedger,ensuringthatallnumbersaretimely,consistent,andcomplete.

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Sage MAS 90 and 200 ERP I F9 Report Writer

FeaturesGraphical Presentation of Data

AnyTimeSlice

DataPreLoad

Multicompany Capabilities

Drill Down

Analyze

Multiple Fiscal Years

Report Wizard

Flexible Cell Reference

Create, Edit, and Write Budgets

Executive Information System (EIS) Functionality

General Ledger Function Wizard

Financial Entities

WGL Formulas

Account Enquiry

Thepresentationofyourfinancialinformationcanbeenhancedbytakingadvantageofthegraphics,text,andadd-incapabilitiesofyourspreadsheet.

Youcancreatefinancialreportsthatspananyperiod,evenaone-weekorone-dayProfitandLoss(P&L),ifdesired.

Byloadingallorpartofyourchartofaccountsintomemory,youcanspeedrecalculationtimesdramatically.

AccessGeneralLedgerdatafromanynumberofcompaniessimultaneously.Simplifyconsolidationacrossdepartments,divisions,orcompanies.

Findtheoriginofanynumberinyourspreadsheet—drilldownallthewaytotheindividualtransactionitself.Forexample,atotalrevenuefigurecanbeslicedintorevenuebydepartment,byproduct,orbylocation,andthatinformationcanbepastedintoyourspreadsheettoaugmentyourreport.

Reportoutofbalance?Withjustoneclick,theF9Analyzefeaturescanstheentirespreadsheet,helpingyoutroubleshootyourreportbyidentifyingmissingorduplicateaccounts.

YoucanaccessdatafromallSageMAS90or200fiscalyearsusingF9.

Youareguidedthroughreportcreationstepbystep;inseconds,youcancreateacompletefinancialreportwithallF9functions,formulas,andcellreferencesintact.

Supposeyouhavecreatedadepartmentalreportwithonecellcontainingthedepartmentcode“100,”forexample.Change“100”to“100,200”andyouhaveatwo-departmentconsolidatedreport.Change“100”to“*”andyouhaveanall-departmentsreport.

ReadBudgetandWriteBudgetbuttonsprovideamechanismforpassingbudgetsbackandforthbetweenyourGeneralLedgerandspreadsheet.Spreadsheetsareanoptimalenvironmentforcreatingandeditingbudgets,andF9makesiteasy.

WithF9,youcandriveF9functionalityfromwithinamacroorVisualBasicprogram.Createdialogboxes,menus,andbuttons,andusethemtoexploreyouraccountingnumbers,justasanexecutiveinformationsystemwould.

TheGeneralLedgerFunctionWizardenhancesproductivityandthecreationofreports.TheformulainsertstheappropriatenumberofcellsinthespreadsheettobuildanF9report.TheGeneralLedgerformulacontainsthecellreferencesrequiredtocompletethereport.

FinancialEntitiesextendstheutilityofF9formulas.GeneralLedgeraccountnumbersmaybespecified,usingeitherthesegmentvalueoritsdescription,astheyappearinthechartofaccounts.YoucanalsodefineyourownF9FinancialEntities.

WGLFormulasallowwritingbudgetinformationbacktotheF9Datamart’sgeneralledger.Asinglecellofinformationcanbewrittenbacktothebudgetfiles.WhileBudgetWriteBackisforbatchupdates,WGLallowsaccountstobeupdatedindividually.

JustlaunchF9,selecttheaccountsyouwantabalancefrom,andclickGetBalance.WithAccountEnquiry,youcanobtainaccountbalancesfromyourGeneralLedgerwithoutusingyourspreadsheet.Makesqueriesfastandeasy.

F9isaproductofSystemsUnionandisdistributedunderlicensebySage.

“WeconvertedtoSageMAS200

[withF9]withoutsomuchasahiccup,

andsuddenlyallthedataweneeded

totracksaleswasrightthereat

ourfingertips.”

Kurt L. Peterson, Vice President of Finance

Oregon Chai