In addition to a wealth of standard financial and accounting reports, Espresso Financials has a powerful query analysis and report builder tool allowing a limitless array of customised reports that can be created.

The query analysis tool presents the user with an incredibly simple interface offering a vast array of data analysis possibilities. All the complex links between data entities such as customers and invoices are automatically taken care of. Having obtained the result data you can use the report builder to design a customised report. The query and report can be saved and re-run at any time. You can also specify runtime criteria for the user to select when the report runs.

Of course because Espresso Financial's data is stored in Microsoft SQL Server, there are a multitude of third party analysis and reporting tools available to generate reports, not to mention Microsoft's Office products including Access, Word and Excel. With such an extensive array of reporting options it makes you wonder why so many accounting programs are restricted to proprietary data formats with limited reporting capabilities.

Unlike many UNIX and DOS based systems, the report builder interface takes full advantage of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It has a simple drag and drop interface for placing text, data fields, summary fields, calculations and summary calculations. And all text can be formatted using standard windows fonts and attributes. So why put up with ugly verbose text reports that spit out on reams of paper.

Customised queries and reports can also be created for any of the control screens that list transactions, customers and suppliers. Furthermore there is an easy export utility to extract the results into an export data file.