Financial reporting helps you gather insights into the financial data in your chart of accounts (COA). This article explains ways to monitor changes to your financial report definitions, and how to control access to financial reports.
Set up the Change Log for financial report definitions
You can use the Change Log feature to capture changes users make to the definitions for financial reports. For example, you can find out what changed, who changed it, and when the change was made.
The following table lists the table for financial report definitions and their IDs.
| Table |
Table ID |
| Report Definition |
88 |
| Row Definition |
84 |
| Column Definition |
333 |
To learn more, go to Audit changes to your setup.
Get notified when financial report definitions change
To add an extra layer of security around your financial report definitions, you can monitor changes to their fields and get an email when someone changes a value.
To learn more, go to Get notified when system setup change
Analyze changes to financial report definitions
You can use the Data Analysis feature to answer questions such as:
- Which definition changed?
- Who changed it, and when?
To learn more, go to Analyze changes to your setup.
Telemetry on changes to financial report definitions
If the telemetry feature is enabled on the Business Central environment, administrators can analyze when any change happened to a financial report/row/column definition.
To learn more, go to Analyzing financial report lifecycle telemetry
Telemetry on usage of financial reports
If the telemetry feature is enabled on the Business Central environment, administrators can analyze who uses financial reports and when.
To learn more, go to Analyzing financial report usage telemetry
Permissions to view or edit financial reports
The following table lists the permission sets that control whether you can view or edit financial reports and their report definitions.
| Access |
Permission set |
| View financial reports. |
Account Schedules - View |
| Edit financial report definitions, including row and column definitions. |
Account Schedules - Edit |
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Analyzing financial report lifecycle telemetry
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