---
title: "Creating a Postings Report"
description: "In Lucanet Consolidation & Financial Planning, you can create and download a Postings report to analyze, audit, and share posting data."
source_url: https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/report-analyze/create-postings-report
language: en
last_updated: 2026-05-28
---
# Creating a Postings Report

## Overview

In **Lucanet Consolidation & Financial Planning**, you can create and download a **Postings report** to analyze, audit, and share posting data. You can set the following for the report:

- Filter the data to be exported by data level, period, posting types, reporting entities and/or consolidation areas
- Define the sort order of the exported data
- Choose **Excel** or **Text** output format

## Creating a Postings Report

A postings report can either be created from the **overview** of the Lucanet Consolidation & Financial Planning solution or from the **Journals** workspace:

- In the **overview** of the Lucanet Consolidation & Financial Planning solution, open the **Extras** menu at the bottom and select **Postings Report**:

Creating a postings report from the 'Extras' menu

- In the **Journals** workspace, select the data level and reporting entity or consolidation area for which you want to create the report and click **Postings Report** at the top right:

Creating a postings report form a journal

The **Postings Report** dialog is displayed as follows, for example. Configure the options for the report as described in the following section.

'Postings Report' dialog

## Configuring and Downloading a Postings Report

Before you download the report, you can configure the following options for the report:

## Output format

File type of the export ( **Excel** or **Text**)

## File name

File name of the export. The correct extension is appended automatically.

## Data level

**Data level** for which the posting report is to be created

## Period

**Period** for which the posting report is to be created

## Posting type check boxes

Selection of the posting types to be included in the posting report:

- **Manual postings**
- Postings created by **Forms/Sheets**
- **Excel postings**
- Postings created by **apps**
- Postings created by **data imports**
- Postings created by **planning wizards**

In addition, you can **only include finalized postings** and/or **only include postings from the general ledger and the subledger.**

## Sorting

Options for sorting the postings in the report. You can sort:

- **By posting date**
- **By date of last change**
- **By posting number**

## Reporting entities tree

Reporting entities for which the posting report is to be created.

You can also **select all reporting entities** at once.

## Consolidation areas tree

Consolidation areas for which the posting report is to be created.

You can also **select all consolidation areas** at once.

Once all options are configured, click **Download report** and the report file will be saved to the **Downloads** folder in your file system.

The report is structured as follows, for example, depending on the options you selected:

Example of a postings report