Run the financial reports a law firm gets asked for at month end.
Reports put what your billing records already hold into the shape a partner, an accountant, or a bar regulator asks for. Seven of them sit under Billing, each one a tab, each one a CSV download.
Seven reports for the questions month end asks
Aged receivables buckets unpaid balances by age, work in progress finds billable work you have not invoiced, and realization shows what survived credits and write-offs.
Three way reconciliation is the seventh report. It opens on your first trust account, where the trust ledger sits waiting until you pick one yourself.
Trust accountingWork in progress by matter
Find billable work you have recorded and not yet invoiced.
Realization by month
See whether credits and write-offs are eating your revenue.
Who earned it, and whose money you are holding
Both revenue reports count money that has cleared rather than money invoiced, split by member or by the matter's practice area. The trust ledger shows one balance per client.
Run your first month-end pack.
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Which reports exist, who can open them, and what each export contains.
Which financial reports does Esqase include?
Seven. Three answer what you are owed and what you earned: aged receivables, work in progress, and realization. Two split collected revenue, by member and by practice area. Two cover client money, the trust ledger and three way reconciliation. Each is a tab across the top of the Reports page in the Billing group, and Esqase opens the first one your role can reach.
Who can open which report?
Each report has its own requirement. Aged receivables and realization need View access for invoices. Work in progress needs View access for time and expenses. Revenue by member and revenue by practice area need View access for transactions. The trust ledger and three way reconciliation need View access for both accounts and transactions, and the reconciliation history inside the three-way report needs View for reconciliations on top. Firm owners see everything.
What happens to a matter I am not allowed to see?
A matter whose visibility is limited to specific members appears in work in progress as Restricted matter, with no number, no title, and no link. The search box matches only what the row already shows, so typing its real number will not surface it. The amounts still count toward your totals, and the CSV export hides the identity the same way.
Does the CSV export match what is on screen?
Yes, with one exception worth knowing. The file carries the filters you set and the same permission checks your role runs on screen, so it is never a wider extract. It ignores the search box, though, so you get the whole report rather than the rows a search left showing. Each export button is named for what it downloads, and aged receivables offers two: a summary and a breakdown by client.
Why do the revenue reports disagree with my invoice list?
They measure different things. The invoice list shows what you have billed. The revenue reports show what has cleared into an account. An invoice that is issued but unpaid appears in one and not the other, and a payment still pending review does not reach the revenue reports until someone at the firm clears it.
Is the outstanding balance on aged receivables gross or net?
Net. An outstanding balance there is net of everything that has reduced it: payments received, credit notes issued, and amounts written off, so it is what the client actually still owes. The table also shows how many unpaid invoices each client has, and how many days overdue their oldest unpaid invoice is, or Not due.
What does the trust ledger show above the table?
Five figures. Book balance is what the ledger says the account held on that date. Sum of client ledgers adds every client's balance together. Clients in overdraft should always read zero, and the card turns red the moment it does not, because a client below zero has been paid out of another client's money. Held without a client and Unreconciled entries complete the row.