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Welcome to Practical Reporting Tips

Hi and welcome to Practical Reporting Tips!

In this blog, I'll be sharing tips and tricks on improving reporting - either improving the usefulness of the report (getting someone to read it is a great start!) or reducing the time or effort taken to produce the report.

There will be a variety of posts, covering a wide range of stuff:

• Setting up to produce the reports that users want
• Reporting processes
• Tips and tricks for specific reporting tools I've used
• Tips and tricks for Excel, the staple of most business reporting!

More than that, I hope that you'll share your reporting tips - leave comments or email me and I'm more than happy to include your tips (all credit to you, obviously!).

The primary rule is that it has to be practical and useful - something that will genuinely save time and effort in the production of reports that are actually read!

A small caveat - I'm not claiming to be the worlds greatest expert in all the topics.  Nope, not at all.  What I'm sharing are practical things that I have done over and over again, which actually work.....and more than that, leaving behind a process and spreadsheets that SOMEONE ELSE can actually follow and amend when things change.

If you think I have it wrong, let me know - the objective here is to have practical things that teams (finance teams, hr teams, environmental teams) can use to make their lives easier.

The motto for this blog!

If you have a pet peeve or something you've been wanting to fix (but haven't had the time) please let me know!

The first posts I'm planning will cover system implementations and targets I've set for reports - so, let's begin!