Reporting

Brief Accounting features a comprehensive list of reports to help you draw needed information from your system. Brief Accounting's reports can be broken down into three main categories:

• Financial Reports
• Management Reports
• Journals

Financial Reports

From the Reports menu you can print a:

• Trial Balance
• Income Statement
• Balance Sheet

In addition, you can print an Aged Receivables report, or a complete General Ledger showing all transactions to your Chart of Accounts. As Brief Accounting is always up-to-date, your accounting reports will always give you an accurate snapshot of your current financial picture.

Management Reports

Because Brief Accounting was specifically written for law firms, we include some special reports. These "Management Reports" go beyond simple accounting data to help you manage and make decisions.

Brief Accounting will keep track of each lawyer's:

• Hours
• Expenses
• Overall profitability

Our Billings report will provide you with a profile of every or any individual lawyer at your firm, showing:

• Total hours in progress
• Total hours billed
• Total hours billed & paid, including invoice numbers.

You can also print a work-in-progress report, that shows you the value of all Time & Billing slips yet to be invoiced.

Brief Accounting can also print client or matter lists sorted by various factors (such as all clients introduced by a specific lawyer, or referred from a specific source).

Journals

The third type of report encompasses such things as:

• Check registers
• Deposit slips
• Posting reports
• Bank reconciliations
• Trust Journals

These "working documents" are critical to the day-to-day activities of your firm, recording and tracking your activities. As an integrated package, Brief Accounting will improve the efficiency of your entire office.

Reporting Power by Module

As well as using the Reports Menu at the top of the screen, Brief Accounting offers you the option of printing a report by clicking the printer button in the screen that is currently being used. The link below will display just some of the many statements and reports available within each module.