nVision Reporting
Finance Systems Training
Rohin Whitford
Finance Business Solutions – User Support & Training
Slide Directory
Slide #
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9-14
15-19
20-23
26-31
34
Topic
Agenda
Our systems
NS Financials overview
What is nVision
Layouts & Scopes
Recommended reports
Drill down options
Scheduling reports in NS Financials
Further support & guidance
Agenda
•
NS Financials Overview
•
What is nVision
•
Citrix Login
•
Layouts and Scopes
•
List of Recommended Reports
•
Drill Down Options
•
Saving & Printing Reports
•
Scheduling Reports within NS Financials
•
Help and Support
Our Systems
Finance Portal
Student
Administration
FIMS (Calumo)
NS Financials
General Ledger updates overnight
HRMS / Payroll
Management
Reporting
n/Vision
NS Financials Overview
* No Commitment Control
eProcurement
Procurement
Card
Asset
Management *
Billing
Purchasing
General Ledger
Expenses
Expenditure
Accounts
Receivable*
Accounts
Payable
Budgeting
Software
(monthly interface from PeopleSoft
Pre-encumbrance
Revenue
Debtors
What is nVision?
PS/nVision retrieves information from the NSF database and places it into a
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, in a form that helps you see the big picture,
explore details, and make decisions.
You use familiar Excel commands to format and analyse the data.
With PS/nVision, you spend your time analysing results
rather than summarising data and entering it into
a spreadsheet.
PS/nVision Login
http://www.fin.unsw.edu.au/
Citrix Login
Layouts and Scopes
Layouts and Scopes
Layout (or Instance)
To specify the data you want to bring into Excel, you use a report layout. A report layout is an
Excel spreadsheet used as a template to define how a report looks and the type of information
that goes into the spreadsheet’s different cells. A layout does not contain data from the
database. Rather, it specifies what data should be mapped directly into your report. Once a
library of report layouts has been created, select an existing layout that best suits your needs.
At UNSW Layouts are preset – you cannot create your own.
Scope
A report scope allows you to create multiple instances of a report using a single report layout
and report request. Using a scope, each report instance contains data specific to an individual
field value, such as a business unit, department, account or project, or to a group of values,
such as a tree node that summarises all sales departments. In this way, each report instance
can share the same layout, while containing data unique to these field values. You might run
three instances of an expense report that share the same layout but contain the details of one
division each.
Report
Scopes
Scope is usually a
project id or
department
Search Scopes
Scopes
List of nVision Reports

F1
Standard Financial Statement (P&L)

F3
Financial Statement by Fund Group

F4
Trial Balance

F5
Full Year Financials Statement with Commitments

D2
Summary Financial Statement by Department

PrjStatS
Projects Summary Report

PrjStatD
Project Detailed Report

P1 Standard Project P&L
PCSUMLTD
Project Summary- Life to Date

Res_Stat
Research Statement

GLFS
General Ledger Financial Statement
/
F1 Financial Statement
How much I have spent this year against my budget?
What I have spent on?
Faculty
School
Centre
F1 Financial Statement
Trial Balance
How much I have spent on individual accounts?
What are the transactions?
Faculty
School
Centre
Trial Balance
Drill Down Options
Actual Journal Lines
Accrual Journal Lines
AP Vouchers excl Procurement Cards
Procurement Card Transactions
HRIS Payroll
Purchase Order Details
Billing Line Details
Actual Journal Lines / ... for
Totals
Source
Source – To identify the information (the following in red provide further drilldown options):
AM – Asset Management (Asset Management)
AP – Accounts Payable (AP Vouchers excl Procurement Cards or Procurement Card
Transactions)
AR – Accounts Recievable (Billing Line Details)
BI – Billing Information (Billing Line Details)
PO – Purchase Orders (Purchase Order Details)
ZPA – Accrual Journal Lines (Accrual Journal Lines)
ZPC –Payroll Encumbrance (HRIS Payroll Encumbrance)
ZPY – Payroll Salary (HRIS Payroll Salary)
The following are some of the common Source Codes that does not provide further drilldown options
ALO – Allocation process
EOM – End of Month Journal (It can be either Actuals or Accruals)
GST – GST Adjustments
INT – Interest Distribution (System generated)
OLE – Online Encumbrance (Commit.) Entry Journal
ONL –Online Journal Entry
PRT – Payroll Tax (System generated)
SSJ – Spreadsheet Journal
Exercise
 F1_Std Financial Statement
COFA
Entertainment -
Sundry Other Revenue - YTD
Actual Journal Lines
Account by Period
AP excl Procurement Card
Billing Line Details
Procurement Card
Exercise
 PrjStatS
COFA
PS19432 - Revenue
Billing Line Details
 PrjStatD
Non People Costs
Total Commitment
PS19433
Scheduling Reports
Reporting Console
First time users will need to select
Preferences.
Ensure that the tick box labelled Enabled
under the heading Process Request
Notification is ticked.
Adding Reports to the
Reporting Console
Ensure the Process Bookmarks radio button is
Select
want
selected
as the
wellreport
as theyou
type
of to
process you are
schedule.
scheduling
(in this case nVision Report)
Running a report from the
Reporting Console
1.Select the date
you’d like the
report to run to
2.Choose email as
the Type
3.Choose Excel as
the format for
the report
4.Select the scope
for your report
Running a report from the
Reporting Console
1. Choose a Scope
2. Enter the File
Template
(if unsure copy)
3. Enter the
Directory Name
(if unsure copy)
4. Enter your email
address.
Running a report from the
Reporting Console
Choose the date & time you want the
report to run – run larger reports
overnight so that it reduces the load on
the systems during business hours
Important things to
Remember
Saving Reports
• The report can be saved to client drive
•
Save any drill you also require – you
cannot drill down on summary totals in
your saved report files.
Important things to
Remember
•
Information provided is up to the close
of business of the previous day and may
include some journals posted to the
current day.
•
Beware when running LTD (Life To Date)
reports in NS Financials – run them in
Citrix instead.
Reports may also be scheduled
(preferably overnight) in NS Financials
via the Reporting Console and delivered
by email
Support & Guidance
• Finance Website – Reporting
https://www.fin.unsw.edu.au/Reporting/Reporting.html
• UNSW Finance Reporting Guide
https://www.fin.unsw.edu.au/files/Training/nVisionReports/R
eporting_User_Guide.pdf
• Faculty Finance Managers & Management Accountants
https://www.fin.unsw.edu.au/InformationCentre/WhoCanHelp.ht
ml#8
• Online Training Tool
http://www.fin.unsw.edu.au/NSF_KnowledgeBase/OnlineTraining
Tool.html
• Quick Reference Guides
http://www.fin.unsw.edu.au/NSF_KnowledgeBase/QRG.html
User Support & Training
Questions?
• Finance Website – Training
https://www.fin.unsw.edu.au/NSF_KnowledgeBase/FKB_Tr
aining.html
• Training Enquiries
Rohin Whitford, Finance Trainer
Ext. 53550, Email fti@unsw.edu.au