How Management Reporter Steps in for FRx to Create NFL Team’s Schedule Templates

As NFL football season gets into full swing, we wanted to share a story with you that involves the Jacksonville Jaguars, a Microsoft Dynamics GP upgrade, and Management Reporter to get new NFL-conforming schedule templates under the league's deadline (with a hat-tip to DynamicsAccounting.net).

As the story goes, Bill Prescott, CFO of the Jacksonville Jaguars, called the author of the blog in to see if he could complete some FRx reports that his accounting manager was working on. She was trying to create NFL-conforming schedule templates in FRx.

"As I looked at FRx, I was seeing hours of having to manually reconcile the trial balance to the coding. This would require exporting the details and then mapping them to a coded spreadsheet. This didn't seem like a productive use of anyone's time. Not to mention, every year they added around a hundred accounts and poor Brian, their staff accountant, would have to repeat the whole process for every one of them. Plus, in some reports I could see the Accounting Manager was struggling with trees and the way segments were pulled together, which equaled even more hours of trying to jam a square peg into a round hole.

Eager to simplify the process (and end the drudgery), I thought, There has to be an easier way - 90% of the coding has already been done in the spreadsheet!"

Eager to simplify the process (and end the drudgery), the blogger figured there had to be an easier way because 90% of the coding had already been done in the spreadsheet.

And he was right.

You see, every year the ...