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Capital Flows Report

Contents

Introduction

Why Use the Capital Flows Report?

Features of the Capital Flows Report

Add Capital Flows to the Advisor Dashboard

Capital Flows Report Settings

Report Actions

 

Introduction

Applies to:
✔ Dynamic ✔ PDF Mobile

✔ Client Portal

 

The Capital Flows report brings together transactions and performance data to allow you to show clients an account or group's contributions and withdrawals over a specified time period. It also helps you understand and troubleshoot IRR for an account or group.

Within the report, you can include any of four components:

For both managed and unmanaged assets, this report can show:

TIP

Many users find it convenient to create a report view for small capital flows and another for large capital flows.

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Why Use the Capital Flows Report?

In the Capital Flows report, you will find versatile sorting and charting options that let you answer many flow-related questions, such as:

Example 1

In their year-end report, Cherry Street Financial provides an overview of the contributions and withdrawals for that year, broken down by month. However, they prefer to keep the report length down, so they exclude transaction details, instead including the summary charts and table.

Example 2

An advisor can't remember whether a client made a $15,000 contribution to her account in December 2006 or January 2007. The advisor sets up a capital flows report with a custom date period of 12/1/2006 to 1/31/2007, then uses the Show only flows where... option to show only flows where the dollar amount is equal to $15,000. By includes only the transactions portion of the report, the advisor quickly determines that the contribution was made on January 1, 2007.

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Features of the Capital Flows Report

The dynamic Capital Flows report helps you easily filter and sort data to drill down to meaningful results. Interactive reporting features include:

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Add Capital Flows to the Advisor Dashboard

You can use dashboard views to see a pared-down summary of the main dynamic report at a glance on your dashboard. This can be useful to help you identify large flows that occurred that day, for example.

To learn more about creating and managing dashboard views, see Create and Share Dashboard Views.

For more information on customizing your dashboard, visit Add/Edit/Delete Dashboard Modules.

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Capital Flows Report Settings

The following settings are available for the Capital Flows report. Click the setting name for more details.

Setting Details Available In...  
Dynamic Report PDF Report Advisor Dashboard PDF
Dashboard
Report Name Designate a unique name for the view of the report view. X   X  
Section Title Designate what the section will be called in the PDF report.   X   X
Theme Designate what theme the section will use.   X    
Header and Footer Choose a unique header and footer for the section or use defaults.   X    
Include Page Break After This Section

Control where page breaks occur in PDF reports.

  X    
Account Grouping Control grouping of accounts and groups.   X    
Mark as Publicly Accessible Share the report view. X      

Date Period

Select the date period you want to use for the report. X X X X
Include Intra-Group Flows Include or exclude intra-group flows. X X X  
Include Expenses that Do Not Reduce Gross/Net Performance Include or exclude expenses based on how their expense types are designated. X X X X
Report on Managed/Unmanaged Assets

Include or exclude managed and unmanaged assets.

Note

For more information about marking securities as unmanaged and how reports display unmanaged assets, see How Reports Handle Unmanaged Assets.

X X X X
Show Account Value vs. Net Investment Chart

Display or hide the Account Value vs. Net Investment chart.

Includes related settings:

  • Customize the y axis starting value

  • Include net investment

X X X X
Show Summary

Display or hide a summary table.

Includes related settings:

  • Include date periods with no flows

Important

A maximum of 52 groupings will be shown in the Summary. If your summary data includes more than 52 groupings, the Summary section will not be displayed.

X X X X
Show Summary Chart Based On

Display or hide a bar chart that summarizes flows and modify settings.

Note

In the PDF Dashboard Capital Flows report, you add a summary chart by selecting Summary Chart from the Show list.

X X X X
Group Summary Data By Designate how to group the summary data in the summary chart. X X X X
Show Transactions

Display or hide a table of transactions.

Includes related settings:

  • Transactions per page

  • Combine transfer lots

  • Show only flows where...

X X X  
Available/Selected Columns Choose which columns are included, in what order. X X    
Top and Bottom Custom Text

Add custom text above or below the report.

Includes related setting:

  • Text alignment

  X    
Show Transactions/Summary Data, With the Chart For

Configure the Capital Flows dashboard report sections.

Includes related setting:

  • Show ___ data

  • With the chart for

    X  

 

For more general dynamic reports settings, including how to customize columns, add footers, and more, see:

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Report Actions

You can do any of the following actions with the report.

Action   Available in Dynamic Report Available in PDF Report
Run Report Run dynamic report or PDF template. X X
Edit Report Edit report view or template. X X
Copy Report Copy report view or template. X X
Delete Report Delete report view or template. X X
Share Report Share report view with other firm users. X X
Export to Excel Export report data to a CSV file. X  
Print Report Print a dynamic report. X X
Site Themes Edit how the dynamic report looks. X  
Learn More About Customizing How PDF Templates Look Edit how the PDF report looks.   X

 

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