Tackling Challenges of Month-end Close by Utilizing Business Planning and Analytics Platforms

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    Tackling Challenges of Month-end Close by Utilizing Business Planning and Analytics Platforms

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    Many organizations realize that the traditional methods of month-end close are no longer sustainable, and choose BP&A platforms instead.

  2. Get Your Guide Automates Reconciliations and Reduces Month-End Close by Over 50% with FloQast

    Berlin-based GetYourGuide, the world’s leading platform to discover and book travel experiences, used to struggle through its month-end Close – for 16 international entities – with a collection of disjointed spreadsheets, checklists, and manual reconciliations until it found FloQast. Now, GetYourGuide’s accounting team gets real-time status views into critical Close tasks, knows exactly who’s working on them,…

  3. Accelerate Your Financial Close to Support Strategic Decision Making

    Establishing an efficient financial close is a challenge for many businesses due to the number of people and complexity of tasks involved, and yet it is key to a best-run finance organization. By understanding how financial transformation—including the use of automation to increase operational efficiency—can support finance teams in the close process and add more…

  4. Speed Your Month-End Close with Automated Reserve Setup, Utilization Tracking, and Over/Underrun Calculation

    Use results analysis to automatically calculate reserves for installation and warranty based on the costs planned for the relevant work breakdown structure elements. Key Concept Results analysis (RA) is a standard function in the cost object controlling module or SAP ERP Central Component. RA is used for many different objects, including internal orders, work breakdown...…

  5. Set Up a Dynamic Rolling Forecast Input Form in the EPM Add-In

    Learn how to create a fully dynamic input form in the SAP Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) add-in. The benefit to a company is that it offers a low cost-of-maintenance feature that can generate monthly forecast data. See how to create this form from start to finish. Discover how to use Excel functions for automatically determining...…

  6. Ensure Accurate Inventory Valuation by Using Actual Costing Functionality

    Break through a common misconception about how the actual cost is updated as the standard price in the material ledger and actual costing. Understand the process of how you can use the functionality to compute the actual cost of the material and carry out accurate inventory valuation at the end of the period. By following...…

  7. Generate More Value From SAP Data With a Real-Time Close

    Pushing data from static spreadsheets into SAP can be like squeezing a square peg into a round hole. You need to chase people for the data, then ensure it is accurate, before loading it into the system, only to find it riddled with discrepancies. You’ve approached your IT team for an in-house solution to be…

  8. How to Automate an Internal Control for Missing Bank Statements

    In today’s world, financial transactions are becoming virtualized and bank-related transaction flows are essential for organizations’ financial systems. Banks periodically (usually daily) send electronic bank statements to an organization that are imported into the system and processed to do reconciliations with the financial system. This process creates the need for tracking whether or not the...…

  9. How to Automate and Streamline the Financial Close Process in Your SAP Systems

    In this Q&A, experts provided tips and best practices for automating and streamlining the financial close process, including deep insight into suggested tools ways to leverage those tools for improved error management, faster data extraction, and greater efficiency.  If you missed the chat or need a refresher, we welcome you to view the online chat...…

  10. Simplify the Process for Creating BW Monthly Inventory Reports

    Meet the challenge of creating SAP NetWeaver BW monthly inventory data targets, including reports. Learn how to create a customized report that quickly displays opening balance, receipts, issues, end balance, and valuated stock for the current month and previous month. Sample code is included. Key Concept Receipts and issues are important points to be familiar...…