Why do restricted custom fields clutter income statement reports?
Subsidiary-restricted custom fields still appear as options in custom income statement reporting even for roles restricted to completely different subsidiaries. This creates excessive clutter and dozens of identically named duplicate fields that staff have to scroll through.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Sending default software statements as-is with a short note pasted in the email body
- 2Highlighting specific areas in the balance sheet for clients who are not numbers savvy
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“owners mostly bitch about the portal looking like it's stuck in 2008 but nobody wants to pay for a custom build so here we are”source ↗
“AppFolio / Buildium already spit out reports, but a few owners still want a one-page note plus a clean distribution number they can forward to their CPA.”source ↗
“The messy part is late vendor invoices and a couple of owners who want the distribution number restated the way their CPA set it up years ago.”source ↗
“While I can limit a custom field, list, script, or whatever to the specific subsidiary, the field still populates in the custom income statement reporting when in a staff accountant role, for example, that is restricted to a completely different subsidiary than the siloed one.”source ↗
“I have hundreds that I have to scroll through that have nothing to do with the U.S., and because they created so many dupe fields on other things, a field search may turn up 12 different identically named options.”source ↗
Where this came up
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