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With intense competition, turbulent market conditions, and increased regulatory oversight, companies are faced with the challenges of streamlining business and financial processes while mitigating risk and ensuring compliance The Financial Performance Management solutions from SAP help companies address these challenges by providing deep insights and actionable intelligence that lead to better business decisions.
The educational sessions in this track offer proven strategies from leading companies and SAP experts that demonstrate how to leverage the Financial Performance Management solutions from SAP and Business Objects to achieve compliance and risk mitigation goals, improve financial and managerial reporting, and better predict business performance.
Other key learning takeaways include:
- Discover how to condense your company’s planning cycles and increase planning accuracy with an integrated planning approach on SAP CO
- Learn how to implement a data warehouse model using SAP Business Intelligence
- Learn how to improve your AP process using SAP invoice Management
- Discover how to define a flexible BI solution that addresses top KPI's
- Gain insights into the characteristics that best-run finance organizations have in common
- Learn about strategies you can use to optimize your financial organization
- Learn why project planning and aligning timelines to the fiscal calendar is critical for new GL migration
- Discover why key business decisions on parallel accounting and document splitting need to be made up front
- Learn key metrics to measure your organization’s finance efficiency and effectiveness
- Learn why creating directive process driven tasks can improve performance management and compliance
Highlights include:
Learn how Autodesk is implementing the new General Ledger functionality to support its global, multi-national implementation on the SAP ERP Central Component. The discussion includes timeline, project plan, upgrade scenario, and key business choices it made regarding document splitting and parallel accounting, as well as the role of SAP's support services team in the project. This presentation includes practical tips, technical challenges, and lessons learned from the implementation completed June 2008.
Join ASUG and SAP to hear about the Finance Benchmarking program. This session will present an overview of the aggregated results of the study. It will allow session participants to evaluate typical Finance processes in terms of cost, staffing profile, organization model, IT systems and best practices, and will allow participants to compare their own company's performance with the ASUG benchmark group.
Learn from LSI Consulting how to implement a data warehouse model using SAP Business Intelligence and the key performance indicators relevant for multiple industries.
Learn from Mine Safety Appliance how to streamline expense payment processes. This presentation includes a step-by-step demonstration of how Mine Safety enabled sending travel and expense direct deposit payment advices to their associates via email, after moving the reimbursement process from Payroll to Accounts Payable in their 4.7 SAP ERP system.
Other key topics addressed in this year’s program include:
- Approaches to Inventory Accounting in the New General Ledger
- Document Imaging - SAP Content Server and the Accounting Department
- Financial Reporting Best Practices
- How to Improve Financial Process Efficiency Using SAP New G/L
- Implementation and upgrade experiences with the new General Ledger
- Improving your AP process using SAP invoice Management
- Introduction to Financial Supply Chain Management
- Management Accounting in the New General Ledger
- Migrating to the New General Ledger
- SAP Business Planning and Consolidations - Budgeting Process Ease of Use
- SAP Solutions for Financial Consolidations