Quality financial planning, budgeting and consolidation applications call for quality report generation to complete the picture of a comprehensive and valuable enterprise performance management solution. Hyperion Financial Reporting, a module of the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, is a tool that transforms enterprise data into operational insights with highly-formatted, book-quality report creation ability. The task of creating outputs ranging from internal management reports to external SEC packages is facilitated though an intuitive, object-oriented interface that even the most non-tech savvy users can employ.

Often, a basic financial report can take no more than a matter of minutes to build in Hyperion Financial Reporting (FR). At times, however, the creation of a seemingly standard financial report can be a deceptively challenging task. With the wide array of features and functions available in FR, it can simply be a matter of becoming familiar with knowing how to best use the tools at your disposal to effectively create the desired end result. This paper is designed to give experienced report designers real-world examples of a few reporting design topics, certain challenges that can arise, and suggested workarounds to resolve them.