What is the Management Reports page for?

The group's management pack — P&L, balance sheet, cash, working capital, the intercompany position, tax and statutory obligations, loans and facilities, projects, people, assets, the cash flow forecast, covenants and actions — for a month, a quarter, the financial year, year to date, trailing twelve months or a custom window. The accounts team builds and reviews it live, writes the commentary, and issues it as a frozen, versioned snapshot; readers with the board key see issued packs only. Budgets, covenants and facilities are kept here too, because the pack measures them every build. You enter: The period, the audience (board, or a named entity audience for one company's own pack), and which comparatives to show — prior period, prior year, budget; The commentary: highlights, concerns and decisions — typed, or drafted from the pack's own figures and then edited; Budgets for an organisation the ledger keeps none for (accounts × twelve months, typed or seeded from last year with an uplift) and the latest forecast; the covenant register (facility, metric, operator, threshold, frequency); the facilities register (limit, drawn, expiry). Saral fills: Every section's figures, from the same engines as the working screens, in the account's reporting currency; the executive summary's warning lines from the template's thresholds; A drafted commentary that says what moved and by how much — never why; the why is the directors' to add; On Overview: the plain-words verdict for the group or one entity — what is working, what is going wrong, what to do now — and the tax steps borrowed from Tax → Actions, which are estimates for planning, never a return; On an issued pack: the live-against-ledger verification per entity, the version number, who it was emailed to, and a line-by-line comparison with today's books or with another version. It produces: A branded PDF and an Excel workbook of the live draft or of any issued version; an email with both attached; An issued pack: a frozen snapshot readers see at once, emailed to the template's recipients, shareable by link, and filed to Saral Sign for director sign-off. Where the settings live: The template — sections, order, comparatives, consolidation basis, top-N rows, warning lines, issue day, recipients and audiences — is Accounts → Settings → Management Reports, reached by the Template button. The financial year is Settings → Organisation → Financial year; the accounts a consolidation leaves out are Accounts → Settings → GL Exclusions. Budgets, covenants and facilities are edited on their own tabs here.