Financial Reporting with
SAS® Financial
Management
Enhancing Excel with the Power of SAS®
Frank Eckhausen
Sr. Solutions Architect
SAS Worldwide Marketing
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Excel
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Objectives
 Quick SAS Financial Management Overview
 Demo - Building Reports with SAS Financial
Management and Excel
 See Financial Intelligence at work
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SAS Financial
Management
SAS Consolidation
and Reporting:
Statutory Consolidation
Partial Ownership
Adjustments
Allocations
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KPI’s
Dimension Management
Structure Management
Data Management
Reporting
Portal
Comments
User Administration
Alerts
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SAS Financial
Management
SAS Consolidation
and Reporting:
Statutory Consolidation
Partial Ownership
Adjustments
Allocations
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An Integrated
Solution
KPI’s
Dimension Management
Structure Management
Data Management
Reporting
Portal
Comments
User Administration
Alerts
SAS Budgeting
and Planning:
Planning Cycles
Planning Forms
Form Management
Email Integration
and Workflow
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SAS Financial
Management
SAS Consolidation
and Reporting:
Statutory Consolidation
Partial Ownership
Adjustments
Allocations
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SAS Strategic
Performance Management:
Scorecards
Strategy Maps
KPI’s
Dimension Management
Structure Management
Data Management
Reporting
Portal
Comments
User Administration
Alerts
An Integrated
Solution
SAS Budgeting
and Planning:
Planning Cycles
Planning Forms
Form Management
Email Integration
and Workflow
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SAS Financial
Management
SAS Consolidation
and Reporting:
Statutory Consolidation
Partial Ownership
Adjustments
Allocations
SAS Strategic
Performance Management:
Scorecards
Strategy Maps
KPI’s
Dimension Management
Structure Management
Data Management
Reporting
Portal
Comments
User Administration
Alerts
An Integrated
Solution
SAS Budgeting
and Planning:
Planning Cycles
Planning Forms
Form Management
Email Integration
and Workflow
Complementary SAS Solutions and
Technologies
Demand Forecasting, Activity Based
Management, …
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Reporting Environment
 The Excel client provides dual interfaces to SAS FM
data:
• OLAP table similar to Excel’s pivot table
• Excel function-based interface.
 Data Entry forms, as well as reports, can be stored and
retrieved from the SAS Portal or on your local machine.
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SAS FM Add-in for Excel
 This demonstration illustrates different reporting tasks:
• Build a report from scratch using the wizard
• Share the report to the Portal
• Modify an existing report from the Portal
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Cell Data Access Reports (CDA)
 CDA reports extend Microsoft Excel’s
functionality to enable users to access SAS FM
data on a cell by cell basis.
 Multiple ways:
• Wizard-driven interface – similar to OLAP report wizard
• Ability to copy from OLAP table
• A Member browser to facilitate picking members
• A set of functions a user can type in to the cells to
retrieve data from SAS FM Result Models.
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CDA Formulas
 Use the formulas to get:
• a value with CDAGet
• a description with CDADesc
• a member property with CDAProperty
• an exchange rate with CDAXRate
• a price rate with CDARate
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Benefits of CDA Reports
• Cell based – benefits:
− insert rows/columns without affecting the
numbers
− use Excel functionality to add/subtract cells
− make adjustments to cell values
• Support for SAS FM security
• Full formatting support.
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Drawbacks of CDA Reports
 CDA reports do not refresh
• based on metadata changes
• when account or organization is added.
 No expand/collapse/drill capability
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SAS Financial Management
 Highlights
• On Demand Consolidation Results
• No Limits on Dimensionality
• Bi-Directional, Dynamic and Secure Link to
Underlying Database
• OLAP and Cell Data Access reports
• Powerful Data Management and Data
Validation
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Excel
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