Every business is unique and SAP provides reporting tools for its users.  For simple reports, you can used the ABAP/4 Query instead of writing reporting programs.  If the reports specifications is not very complex, using the query will save you a lot of time. In the query, you can create your own calculation variable, define the sorting criteria, define the field arrangement and define whether you want to have totals.

Steps to create a query :-

• SQ02 - Create the Functional Areas
• SQ02 - Assign to User groups
• SQ00 - Create the Basic Lists/Statistic/Ranked List
• Basic Lists are details reports.  Every records in the table are printed.
• Statistic are summary reports.  The records with the same keys are group together.
• Ranked list are ranking report.  e.g. The top 10 sales values.