Drive Your Financial Reporting with
QAD Enterprise Financials
Gerard Hehir – Product manager
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
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Introduction
■ Challenges with corporate reporting
■ Enterprise Edition solution
■ Tailoring to your reporting needs
■ Demonstration
■ Q&A
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Challenges of Corporate Reporting
Fact:
88% percent of large organizations
experienced delays in the last 12
months when executing financial
close, reporting and filing
Source:
WWW.CFO.com, 2012,
Research, undertaken by Dynamic
Markets with input from more than
1,100 organizations across US and
EMEA
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Challenges of corporate reporting
Fact:
21% of companies have increased
costs of financial reporting, and 60%
don't know the costs for their
organizations
Source:
Accenture, 2012,
http://www.accenture.com/usen/Pages/insight-challengescorporate-financial-reporting.aspx
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Challenges of Corporate Reporting
ZAR
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Challenges of corporate reporting
Mr. Murphy
CFO
■ Cash flow, company liabilities, budgeting
and expense
control
Jean
Division
Manager
QMI Co
Personnel
■ Helicopter view at a glance
Stephan
Consolidation
Manager
Niamh across entire
■ Single representation
organisation
Internal
Auditor
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Challenges of corporate reporting
Mr. Murphy
CFO
■ Consolidation structure
Jean
■ Different GL
Division
Manager
Stephan
QMI Cocurrencies and
calendar,
Consolidation
Personnel
COA
Manager
■ What is the consolidation position?
Niamh
■ How is consolidation
progressing?
Internal
Auditor
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Challenges of corporate reporting
Mr. Murphy
CFO
■ Compliance
Jean
■ Management
Division
Manager
QMI
Co
and
financial
Personnel
Stephan
reporting
Consolidation
Manager
■ Identify source transactions
Niamh
■ Export XML , Excel Internal
, PDF
Auditor
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Challenges of Corporate Reporting
Mr. Murphy
CFO
■ Contribution per product Lines, COGS ,
Jean
Division
Manager
QMI Co
Personnel
Stephan
Consolidation
Manager
■ Average, fixed and Variable cost?
■ Scrappage
Niamh
Internal
Auditor
■ 4 Plants across 2 regions
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Challenges of Corporate Reporting
■ Globalization
■ Multiple formats
■ Increasing adoption of IFRS
■ Advent of XBRL and iXBRL
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Solution Characteristics
■ Broad ranging
■ Flexible, scalable, integrated
■ Intuitive and extremely powerful
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
QAD Analytics
Business
Financial
Intelligence
report
Analytical writer
reports
Metrics
Browses &
Collections
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Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise
Edition: Browses
■ Configurable
■ Export options
■ Browse functions (group by, summary)
■ Graphical representation
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Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise
Edition: Browse Collections
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Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise
Edition – Metrics
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Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise
Edition – Analytical Reports
■ Extensive – 140 plus reports
■ Configurable
■ Batch or on request
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Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise
Edition – Financial Report Writer
■ Objectives
 Single solution
for GL reporting
 Real time
 Consolidated
 Multi-domain
 Chart Translation
 Currency Translation
 Multi-GAAP
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Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise
Edition – Financial Report Writer
■ Flexible reports
■ Harmonized
■ Cube
■ Source transaction
■ IFRS/XBRL
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Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise
Edition – Business Intelligence
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Challenges of Corporate Reporting
Mr. Murphy
CFO
Jean
Division
Manager
QMI Co
Personnel
Stephan
Consolidation
Manager
Niamh
Internal
Auditor
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QAD Analytics
Mr. Murphy
CFO
Analytical
Reports
Financial
Report
Writer
Business
Intelligence
Metrics
Browses &
Collections
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Challenges of Corporate Reporting
Mr. Murphy
CFO
Jean
Division
Manager
QMI Co
Personnel
Stephan
Consolidation
Manager
Niamh
Internal
Auditor
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
QAD Analytics
Stephan
Consolidation
Manager
Analytical
Reports
Financial
Report
Writer
Business
Intelligence
Metrics
Browses &
Collections
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
Challenges of Corporate Reporting
Mr. Murphy
CFO
Jean
Division
Manager
QMI Co
Personnel
Stephan
Consolidation
Manager
Niamh
Internal
Auditor
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
QAD Analytics
Niamh
Internal
Auditor
Analytical
Reports
Financial
Report
Writer
Business
Intelligence
Metrics
Browses &
Collections
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
Challenges of Corporate Reporting
Mr. Murphy
CFO
Jean
Division
Manager
ACME Co
Personnel
Stephan
Consolidation
Manager
Niamh
Internal
Auditor
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
QAD Analytics
Jean
Division
Manager
Analytical
Reports
Financial
Report
Writer
Business
Intelligence
Metrics
Browses &
Collections
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
Rich Transactional Detail in the GL
Ad Hoc
Reports
Enquiries
Account
-Sub-Account
-Cost Center
-Project
-SAF 1-10
-Layer
-Daybook
• GL transaction
• Journal entries
-GL
• Product costs
Analytical
Reports
Cash Flow
• Employee costs
• Project analysis
reports (budget vs.
actual)
Define measures
Balance
• Balances
Sheet
• Movements
• Period over period
Income
comparisons
Statement
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The Complexity of a Global Organization
ZAR
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise
Financials
Demonstration
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
Challenges of Corporate Reporting
Fact:
88% percent of large organizations
experienced delays in the last 12
months when executing financial
close, reporting and filing
Source:
Research, undertaken by Dynamic
Markets with input from more than
1,100 organizations across US and
EMEA
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Drive Your Financial Reporting with QAD Enterprise Financials
Summary
■ Challenges with Corporate Reporting
■ Enterprise Edition Solution
■ Tailoring to your reporting needs
■ Demonstration
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Questions & Answers
■ Gerard Hehir : geh@qad.com
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Next Steps
■ Attend this related session:
 Debunking the Upgrade Myth: It’s Easier than
You Think (Breakout Session III, watch recording)
 From Data to Intelligence (Breakout Session I,
watch recording)
 Explore the Proven Power of QAD Enterprise
Financials (Breakout Session IV, watch recording)
■ Stop by the Solutions Expo
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