CHAPTER 6Financial Statement Generator

The Financial Statement Generator, or FSG, is EBS’s tool for writing financial statements without having to engage a programmer every time a change is needed to a financial statement. FSGs can only be used to report on data that is housed in the General Ledger, and not other modules. When written correctly, FSGs can provide financial reports that do not need to be modified each time an account is added to the General Ledger, for actual and budget data. This section will provide in-depth details for each step needed to create an FSG.

FSG Overview

When working with FSGs, perhaps the most important thing to remember is the FSG functionality is old. While some features, such as BI Publisher or Content Sets, ...

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