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How-to video on creating a BI Report template in JD Edwards

You submitted a report in JD Edwards and selected CSV output as an option.  After retrieving the CSV report into Excel, some of the columns that contain leading zeros and look perfectly fine in PDF,  drop the leading zeros in Excel.  Has this ever happened to you?  Did you blame JD Edwards for this behavior?  You shouldn’t have!  This is actually an Excel issue. Keep reading for a possible workaround to this behavior. Read more…

DENVER, May 3 /PRNewswire/ — InsightSoftware.com, the leading provider of business process optimization software, launched a new Capital Asset Management (CAM) solution. The CAM solution is part of the Insight product line for JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne. Read more…

From the Journal of Accountancy:

IFRS For SMEs-U.S. GAAP Comparison Tool Available Online While the SEC moves toward a 2011 vote on whether to require U.S. public companies to report using IFRS, a more compact version of the international standards is already an option, subject to state board approval, for U.S. private companies. Now there’s a free online tool to help preparers understand how that streamlined standard compares to U.S. GAAP. Read more…

The existing Financial Reports that come standard with JDEdwards are not pretty, I must admit.  They tend to get very long due to 0-balance accounts printing.  Sometimes it’s hard to figure out which accounts are listed, because only the Account Description prints, not the Account Number.    And how do you get them to print the balances for specific Business Units, vs. rolling them up to the Company level, or maybe even using a category Code to consolidate?  The last topic is the focus of this article:  report consolidations. Read more…