SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

1. Overview of Enterprise Performance Management
1.1. What is Enterprise Performance Management?
1.1.1. SAP products for Enterprise Performance Management
1.2. Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
1.2.1. Introduction to Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
1.2.2. Budgeting best practices
1.2.3. Evolution of planning technologies and processes
1.3. Consolidation
1.3.1. Consolidation Concepts and Methods
1.3.2. Key Regulatory requirements for consolidation
1.3.3. Fast-close and consolidation process

2. Overview of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
2.1. Business User Owned and Managed
2.2. Unified planning and consolidation
2.3. Process-centric focus
2.4. Forward-looking and predictive
2.5. Statutory and regulatory compliance

3. Application Modeling with BPC
3.1. Dimension Management
3.2. Application Management
3.3. Security Management
3.4. Business Management Processes

4. Scheduling, Reporting, and Managing Data with BPC
4.1. Authoring reports with Microsoft Excel
4.2. Authoring reports with self-service web tools
4.3. Using pre-defined functions
4.4. Managing data from source systems
4.5. Data manipulation

5. Business Logic with BPC
5.1. Methods of developing logic
5.2. Overview of K2 logic
5.3. Allocations
5.4. Member formulas
5.5. Business rules

6. Process Management and Collaboration
6.1. Work Status settings
6.2. Multi-phase approval process
6.3. Offline planning - distribution and collection
6.4. Commenting
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7. Business Planning with BPC
7.1. Top-down vs. bottom-up planning
7.2. Rolling forecasts
7.3. Driver-based planning
7.4. Revenue planning
7.5. Workforce planning
7.6. Expense planning
7.7. Capital expenditure planning
7.8. Plan income statement, cash flows

8. Consolidations with BPC
8.1. Ownership
8.2. Currency translations
8.3. Intercompany eliminations
8.4. Journals
8.5. Consolidation rules
8.6. Legal consolidations
8.7. Management consolidations
8.8. Review and

Sridhar Srinivasan is a Senior Business Intelligence Architect for Zebra Consulting, Inc. He is certified in all ofthe versions of the product, including SAP NetWeaver BI 2004s.