Summary of reporting and online analysis options

This table presents an overview of the reporting and online analysis methods provided with Project Accounting. You can find details about each of these methods in the succeeding chapters.

Option	Description	For Details
Performing online analysis	Online analysis forms give you quick access to current activity data such as activity balances, resource balances, and transaction information. Online analysis forms are useful for a quick check of a small amount of data.	See Accessing data online
Running standard reports	Reports give you a printable record of your activity data, which can be as comprehensive or as narrow in scope as you want it to be. Reports are more complicated to set up and require several processing steps. You can save reports.	See Running standard reports
Using Transaction Writer	The Transaction Writer program lets you define transaction reports that list transaction detail for an activity group list, activity group, activity, activity list, or account category. You can select which transactions to include in the report, which transaction attribute fields to include, and how the transactions are organized and totaled. Use this program to report on transaction attributes you define.	See Defining transaction attributes and Creating Transaction Writer reports