# Food Reports

Report Period There are three ways to specify what period of time the report should cover. The Most Recent Audits option allows you to request, for example, that the two most recent audits for each outlet in the group will be included in the report. The Year to Date option will be applied to each outlet in turn. So, if two outlets have different Start of Year dates, the overall report will actually be covering different periods. The Start/End Dates option allows you to specify a precise period of time. The Outlets/Audits report will give you a list of outlets included in the current time period for the group together with a list of audit numbers for each outlet. You can use this to verify that the correct group or sub-group has been selected before generating the report. Audit Selection As well as selecting the start/end dates. You need to specify how an audit will be included. Fully Inclusive means that both the start date and the end date of the audit are within the period. Partially Inclusive means that either the start date or the end date of the audit must be within the period. The other three options are fairly obvious. You can use the Blank Zeros button to not display values of zero. This is useful as it will de-clutter the report allowing you to see the 'real' information more clearly. You can use the Colour tick-box to display negative values in Red. This can be useful as it will draw your attention to negatives which are likely to be invalid. It is possible to customise reports to display other colours but the reports initially provided with StockManager only use red. The Separate Audits option allows you to specify whether a report just contains a line for each outlet in the group, or whether it should contain a line for each audit, for each outlet. To run and display a report, simply click on the relevant report in the list. The information will be processed and progress will be displayed at the bottom left corner of the screen. Some reports take much longer to process than others! - especially those which require information from multiple outlets/audits. Once complete, the report will be shown on the screen and you then have the option of printing it.

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