I've used the KC QuickIcons extension for this:
www.keashly.net/administration/kc-admin-quickicons
I am using Joomla! 2.5 and was able to use the ACL to only show the reporting icons and menu items to our customer support reps that have to use the administrator backend to manage the reports.
Unfortunately, I had to hack RSFP to put ACL checks in for each of the the views. I didn't want the CSR's to have access to building the forms, backup/restore, plugins, etc. I hope RS Joomla! build that into the next release.