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Built-in reports

Built-in reports in Business Central across finance, sales, purchasing, fixed assets, project, assembly, manufacturing and service management. It answers which reports exist for each area, how to reach them through the Report Explorer, and how to analyze activity. It also covers the Notification Email report and report generation telemetry.

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Overview

This section collects the standard reports and analytical tasks that ship with Business Central, grouped by business area. The Report overview page is the navigation hub to financial, sales, purchasing, inventory, project, service and other reports, and it points to the Report Explorer and analysis mode. The Sales report overview adds links to ad-hoc analysis, Power BI integration and sales analytics.

Pages directly in this hub cover purchasing reports and analytical tasks, fixed assets reports (depreciation, acquisition, disposal, gains and losses, book values, insurance and maintenance), the Notification Email report, and Report Generation Telemetry. Subtopics go deeper into Finance, Project, Assembly management, Manufacture and Service management.

Start with Report overview to find the right area. Then open the matching subtopic or page. Use Report Generation Telemetry if you need to monitor report performance rather than business data.

Key points

  • Report overview is the entry point, organizing built-in reports by business area and pointing to the Report Explorer and analysis mode.
  • Finance covers report categories, payables and receivables analytics, financial reports built from account categories, and sustainability reports.
  • Fixed assets reports analyze depreciation, acquisition, disposal, gains and losses, accumulated depreciation, book values and asset inventories, with insurance and maintenance reports.
  • Purchasing reports and analytical tasks give insight into current and past purchase activity, including item availability and purchase date calculation.
  • Sales report overview links to sales reports, ad-hoc analysis, Power BI integration and sales analytics.
  • Project, assembly, manufacture and service subtopics cover WIP posting, assembly BOMs, load versus capacity on work and machine centers, and service resource allocation and statistics.
  • The Notification Email report builds the email body sent to users registered for notifications, using the Notification Entry for recipient and document links.
  • Report Generation Telemetry tracks successful, failed and canceled runs, including dataset generation time, rendering time, SQL execution, document format and layout type.

Subtopics

More Learn pages

  • Fixed assets reports: Explore the standard reports in Business Central that can help you track and manage your fixed assets.
  • Notification Email report: Generate email content for Business Central notifications, including approval requests, overdue approvals, document details, and action links.
  • Purchasing reports and analytical tasks: Learn which purchase reports are available in the standard version of Business Central so that you can keep track of your business.
  • Report Generation Telemetry: Learn about the report telemetry in Business Central.
  • Report overview: Explore reports across all functional areas of the standard version of Business Central.
  • Sales report overview: See which sales reports and analytics are available in the standard version of Business Central so that you can keep track of your business.

Business Central pages and reports

The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.

Learn also names 2 objects with no object page: report/10007, report/10008.

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