SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

3-5 year financial plan with cashflow.

Annual budget for revenue and operating expenses, headcount/compensation, capital expenses, projects, etc.

Combining actuals and budgets, rolling forecasts, driver-based models.

Financial or operational modeling of alternate future states and planning for each.

Budget vs. actual or forecast, P&L’s, performance over time, between products etc.

Consolidating data from several entities into a single statement using US GAAP, IFRS or other standards.

Ability to enter journal entry adjustments and produce reports showing all journal entries for a specific period.

Ability to handle foreign currency conversions during consolidation.

Matching and elimination of intercompany revenue, expenses, and balance sheet accounts.

Consolidate financials full or partial ownership of subsidiaries, equity pick-up.

Ability to report against individual business entities and the consolidated umbrella entity.

Tracing changes to data and processes that were run.

Creation and production of balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, other schedules

Tools facilitating creation of internal ad hoc or standard reports.

Ad hoc or formatted reports using MS Excel.

Tools to help automate creation of regulatory reports such as SEC filings and board books.

Create custom dashboards and reports without the help of IT or administrators.

Track and analyze performances with interactive, color-coded balanced scorecards.

Select from a library of more than 6,000 key performance indicators, and incorporate KPIs into your planning process.

Cost and profitability analysis provides data for business decision making.

Ability to set key performance indicators for measuring progress towards goals.

CPI, daily exchange rates, industry KPIs. with scheduled data refreshes.

Integration of flat files like text documents and comma separated files

Ability to integrate directly with Excel data.

Integration with external applications like ERP, CRM, HCM