Billing Settings Diagnosis Report

The purpose of this report is to bring billing and fee settings found in various areas of Morningstar Office into a single report. This allows you to verify your billing and fee settings, and identify errors for a particular client or group. The billing and fee settings generated in this report include the following:

Settings	Details
Fee Methodology	Identifies whether management fees are calculated at the Client, or household level, or the individual account level. Fee Methodologies include the following: Client Setting/Aggregate Balance Individual Account Setting/Balance Individual Account Setting/Blended Rate
Management Fee Settings	Identifies management fee settings assigned at either the Client or Individual Account level.
Management Fee Discount	Notes if a discount has been applied to any accounts in the household (in basis points).
Fee Allocation	Identifies how Management fees are allocated across accounts in the household.
Accounts included in Fees	Identifies which accounts are included in management fee calculations.
Unmanaged Accounts	Identifies accounts that have been flagged as Unmanaged.
Accounts excluded from Management Fee Calculations	Identifies accounts that are excluded from management fee calculations.
Global Billing Settings	Identifies settings that have been created at the Practice level (Under Home … Preferences).
Excluded Margin Balance	Notifies whether a margin balance is excluded from an account balance.
Absolute Value of Short Positions	Notifies whether an absolute value of short positions is positive.
Securities Excluded from Management Fees	Identifies Securities that have been excluded from management fee calculations.

To run this report, do the following:

From the Billing page under the Client Management or Portfolio Management tabs, click the Billing Setting Diagnosis button on the toolbar located above the grid.
Search for the Client or Group you wish to run the report for.
Select the Client or Group from the Available Records box and then click OK.
Select the folder where you want reports to be stored.
Click OK.
Navigate to the folder where the report was stored and double-click on the file name to launch the report.