In Odoo Community, Accounting reports are launched with a wizard that allows you to specify the filters before a PDF document is created that you can open in any PDF viewer. Odoo Enterprise does away with that clunky approach completely and allows you to bring up a report immediately within Odoo without having to create a PDF file.

Let's look at the Odoo Enterprise Profit and Loss statement by choosing Profit and Loss from the Reports menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you take the time to switch over to Odoo Community and attempt to produce the same profit and loss report, you can quickly appreciate the improvements in Odoo Enterprise. Even better, the reports are dynamic. There are also a variety of options at the top to change the filters used on the report and to perform comparisons between different periods:

Another nice feature is that the reports have drill-down capabilities. For example, you can open the Operating Income tab and click on the Product Sales account to bring up a menu that will take you to the general ledger for the account, or even allow you to add a note to the item on the report, as shown in the following screenshot:

Even though the reports show up immediately, it does not mean that you give up the option to have them in PDF format. At the top-left side of the reports, you have buttons that allow you to export the report to a PDF or an Excel file.