by Dan Sullivan, Senior Consultant, focusSAP
Financials Expert - Volume 11 (2012), Update 2

Learn how to automate consolidation of investments as you use Enterprise Controlling-Consolidation (EC-CS) and Strategic Enterprise Management-Business Consolidation System (SEM-BCS) functionality to expedite your period-end close. See how you can achieve this without a full-blown implementation of the consolidation of investments component.

by Dan Sullivan, Senior Consultant, focusSAP
Financials Expert - Volume 11 (2012), Update 2

Learn how SAP Enterprise Controlling and Consolidation (EC-CS) and SAP Strategic Enterprise Management-Business Consolidation System (SEM-BCS) reporting uses consolidation logic to dynamically report consolidated results.

by Dr. Karol Bliznak, Vice President, SAP AG
Financials Expert - Volume 10 (2011), Update 2

Get a first-hand look at some of the most asked-about best practices available now for the starter kit for liquidity planning for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Step through the installation procedure and understand the pre-built components available as part of the starter kit. Learn how you can source the starter kit for liquidity planning through flat files or integrate it with SAP Business Suite and other systems to enable a financial liquidity reporting, planning, and forecasting scenario. Gather tips on how to use the starter kit’s calculation rules to run different scenarios to see the potential effects of changes to your liquidity.

by Dr. Marco Sisfontes-Monge, Managing Partner, Arellius Enterprises, Inc.
Financials Expert - Volume 10 (2011), Update 2

The cash flow and shareholders’ equity reports are two of the most challenging reports in any legal consolidation project. Generating them on a monthly basis is even more difficult if the right configuration or design is not in place. Follow a real-world procedure used to generate and calculate the statement of cash flows and shareholders’ equity reports on a monthly basis using SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) and legacy data as the source systems and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation as the target environment.

by David Hannon
insiderPROFILES - 2010 (Volume 1), October (Issue 4)

When the finance team at Rock Bottom Restaurants, Inc. realized it was spending more time on data entry than data analysis, it decided it was time to improve its technology. Hear from the CFO and VP of Finance how the move from a spreadsheet-only system to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation dramatically improved Rock Bottom’s budgeting and planning processes.

by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group
Financials Expert - Volume 9 (2010), Update 8

SAP recently announced the starter kit for liquidity planning with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. With the starter kit, you can create multiple liquidity scenarios and select them to fund operations and strategic initiatives across the enterprise.

by Dr. Marco Sisfontes-Monge, Managing Partner, Arellius Enterprises Inc.
Financials Expert - Volume 9 (2010), Update 6

Despite the complexities of the oil and gas industry, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation can deliver a simplified environment that handles both planning and consolidation needs. You can base consolidations on period or calendar, and planning via reusing dimensions, reports, processes, and pre-delivered content to simplify your reporting environment.

by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group, LLC
Financials Expert - Volume 9 (2010), Update 5

The starter kit for capital planning for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform, allows for specific business process flows to be common across budget planning for multi-year capital expenditure investments. See how to use the starter kit as well as the various views available to evaluate different strategic objectives.

by Karunakar Gillella, Sr. SAP Administrator, ConAgra Foods
Financials Expert - Volume 9 (2010), Update 5

See how to set up controlled batch jobs for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation with any corporate scheduling tool. This allows you to load end-to-end data from SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and vice versa. Follow the steps for creating a batch file on the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application server to execute the scheduled SQL Server Integration Services package on the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation data manager.

by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group
Financials Expert - Volume 9 (2010), Update 4

As part of its positioning for the corporate boardroom set of enterprise performance management applications, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, allows for the transparency and flexibility to create predictive financial scenarios that can anticipate changes in the cost and corresponding investor relationship model. Learn how to increase performance by predicting capital asset ratings and enhance relationship management for effective governance using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management.