Reporting Made Easy

Fundamentals of Reporting
An Overview of Reporting in the R/3 System

Release 4.0B

SAP Labs, Inc.

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 Acknowledgments
The publisher thanks the following individuals who provided time, expertise, and
resources to help make the Reporting Made Easy series possible.

Julie Beehler and John Huck (Anheuser-Busch, Inc.)

Ron Greenfield, David Jones, and Ben Matteson (Anthro Corporation)
Ann Zediker and Chuck Marx (Arthur Andersen, LLP)
Bruce Scott (BrightStar Information Technology Group, Inc.)
Amy Vorbeck (CCAi, Inc.)
Nancy White (Chevron Corporation)
Tom Eisenhart (Lucent Technologies, Inc.)
Hans Hess (Metamor Enterprise Solutions)
Igor Smelansky and Winnie Chang (Network Associates)
Erin Andrews (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
Mohamad Hakim (Softline, Inc.)
Clare Carver (The Pair Group)
Margie Coolidge, Ron Giovannelli, and Patrick Zalamea (Ziatech Corporation)
Pamela Anderson and Robert Smith (publishing consultants)
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Elisa Davis, Ray Fan, Sampath Gomatam, Maria Gregg, Darrin Griggy, Reiner Herde,
Michael Hielbrink, James Hill, Reiner Hoeltke, Claus Horn, Beverly Kennedy, Ruediger
Kretschmer, Michael LaStella, Sylvia Lehnen, Robert Loughran, Bob Mackenzie, Rhondda
Macleod, Natascha Marienfeld, Steffen Mock, Heinrich Mueller, Rolf Neuhaus, Doug
O’Brian, Mary Odabashian, Wolfgang Otter, Brian Potter, Lori Ritzert, L.Kay Roberts,
Thomas Rumbach, Sabine Scheppat-Hinze, Stefan Sigg, Donald Silva, Birgit Starmanns,
Gerald Steele, Henri Stein, Peter Tillert, Cindy Vineberg, Wolfgang Weiss, Daniela
Weckesser, April Wu, Daniel-Benjamin Zaidspiner, Peter Zimmerer, and Theo
Zimmermann (SAP)

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 Detailed Table of Contents

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