1. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Frank Eckhausen Sr. Solutions Architect SAS Worldwide Marketing Financial Reporting with SAS® Financial Management Enhancing Excel with the Power of SAS®

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3. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Objectives  Quick SAS Financial Management Overview  Demo - Building Reports with SAS Financial Management and Excel  See Financial Intelligence at work

4. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 4 SAS Financial Management Allocations Partial Ownership Adjustments SAS Consolidation and Reporting: Statutory Consolidation Dimension Management Structure Management User Administration Data ManagementReporting Alerts KPI’s PortalComments

5. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Form Management Planning Forms Planning Cycles Email Integration and Workflow SAS Budgeting and Planning: SAS Financial Management An Integrated Solution Allocations Partial Ownership Adjustments SAS Consolidation and Reporting: Statutory Consolidation Dimension Management Structure Management User Administration Data ManagementReporting Alerts KPI’s PortalComments

6. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 6 Form Management Planning Forms Planning Cycles Email Integration and Workflow SAS Budgeting and Planning: SAS Strategic Performance Management: Scorecards Strategy Maps SAS Financial Management An Integrated Solution Allocations Partial Ownership Adjustments SAS Consolidation and Reporting: Statutory Consolidation Dimension Management Structure Management User Administration Data ManagementReporting Alerts KPI’s PortalComments

7. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 7 Form Management Planning Forms Planning Cycles Email Integration and Workflow SAS Budgeting and Planning: SAS Strategic Performance Management: Scorecards Strategy Maps Complementary SAS Solutions and Technologies Demand Forecasting, Activity Based Management, … SAS Financial Management An Integrated Solution Allocations Partial Ownership Adjustments SAS Consolidation and Reporting: Statutory Consolidation Dimension Management Structure Management User Administration Data ManagementReporting Alerts KPI’s PortalComments

8. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 8 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.

9. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 9  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 SAS FM Add-in for Excel

10. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 10 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.

11. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 11 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

12. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 12 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.

13. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 13 Drawbacks of CDA Reports  CDA reports do not refresh based on metadata changes when account or organization is added.  No expand/collapse/drill capability

14. Copyright © 2005, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. 14 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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