This badge earner is able to author complex list and crosstab reports from scratch using Cognos Report Authoring to meet specific reporting needs; and understands how to create calculations, string, date, and numeric functions. The earner has created required/optional prompts as well as prompt pages to allow multiple stakeholders to re-use the same report. The earner is able to create custom report queries, join multiple queries together, and create custom cohorts to compare data across terms.