Perfect Practice is installed with almost 200 reports standard, combined with the functionality to create any type of custom report a client needs.
| Accounts Payable Aging | Matters Opened or Closed |
AP Invoice Aging | AP Invoice History |
| A/R Aging by Working Producer |
Accounts Receivable Aging |
Outstanding Receivables | WIP & A/R Summary |
| Bank Reconciliation GL Exceptions |
Reconcile Accounts | Client Bill & Payment History | Client Billable Summary |
| Client Financial Status | Clients Ranked by Billable Fees | Clients Ranked by WIP Balances | Area of Law Billable Summary |
| Billing Summary by Working Producer | Master Producer Rates Table | Retainer Balances | Matter Billable Summary |
| Matter Financial Summary | Unbilled Fee/Cost Summ – Matter | Check Register | Matter Check History |
| Area of Law Collections Summary |
Cash Receipts Detail | Clients Ranked by Fees Collected | Matter Collection Summary |
| Balance Sheet | Chart of Accounts | Comparative Income (13 Month) |
General Ledger Detail |
| Income Statement | Working Trial Balance | Area of Law YTD Performance | Client YTD Performance |
| Matter YTD Performance | Producer YTD Performance | Hours Analysis (Billed & UnBilled) |
Trust Balance Summary by Matter |
Reports can be run from several areas within case management or time & billing, depending on how you’ve customized your practice management solution. The first place is from the custom desktop, any report that’s been placed on your desktop, can be run by simply clicking on the icon.
Most reports are created with Crystal Report writer and many include a parameter dialogue box (options selector) allowing a user to control the information included in the report. When a range of dates is involved, a user must check off the today check box, for a specified date to take effect; Checking off the all button, on a parameter that has an ellipsis, will allow you to select the drop down.
Clicking on an ellipsis, gives us a list of report options that are available in the database. Highlight the one you want. Click OK. The report will generate to the screen. If the report doesn’t display properly, you can adjust the display size by clicking on the percentage drop down. To print the report, select the printer icon.
The custom desktop also contains the reports menu. Selecting the reports menu option will open the full reports menu. The reports menu consists of different report categories. Clicking on its respective plus sign will expand each category.
A list of all reports under each category will be displayed. The listing of reports is shown based on user permissions from the security system. A user will only see the reports that the admin allow to access. When you highlight a report, it will typically give a description of the options available for running the report, as well as the actual file name of the report.
When the report is selected, you’ll once again get the parameters dialogue. It’s important to note that the dialogue boxes, with lookups from the Perfect Practice database, utilize special parameters specific to Perfect Practice. If you’ve written your own crystal reports, you’ll see a different looking dialogue, with no access to lookups from the database. Click OK and the selected report will run.
The report menu can also be selected from the classic menu. Reports can also be added to the questionnaire tab. While viewing a case within case management there will be “Case Summary” button on the left menu. This is a built in feature of case management. Once it’s configured for a specific case type, pressing the summary button will run a report specific to the case you have displayed. Of course, it can be customized to firms’ specifications. To print the report, click on the print icon.
All reports can be exported to almost any format required including ODBC, XLS, CSV, HTML and PDF.