Utility Reports Overview

The Utility Reports have been specifically designed to help you prepare documentation for an audit in conjunction with compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

The first step in the process is to select the report that you want to run. The reports fall into three general categories:

Asset Reports: Provide information about a company’s assets, such as history events, customized groups, general ledger codes, SmartLists, and templates.

Company Reports: Provide information about the company, such as the company setup, customized reports, and the name of all of the databases and companies in the system. The Company Setup report shows the status of the Section 168 Extra Bonus settings, indicating whether they are enabled.

Security Reports: Provide information about the security setup, such as company access by user, company profile assignments, company profile definitions, security status, system access by user, system profile assignments, and system profile definitions.

The second step is to select the database(s) and company or companies for which you want to run the report. Most reports can be run for multiple companies and multiple databases. However, some reports provide information on your entire Sage Fixed Assets system, so you don’t need to select a database or company.

Two reports require more information before you can run them: the Asset History Events report and the SmartList Field Entries report. If you select either of these two reports, a window appears that allows you to select more options before you run the report.

The final step is to specify where you want to send the report: to your computer’s screen, to your default printer, or both. After you make your selection, you select the Run Report button to view and/or print the report.