Financial Planning and Analysis with SAP

Get a look at the inner workings and gears of your enterprise with this book! With expert guidance from the authors, you’ll learn to carefully map your business’s financial path. From planning through integration, you’ll understand the business steps and requirements needed to work with SAP’s solutions for enterprise performance management. Learn how EPM can help you create detailed financial plans, monitor actual costs against budget, and analyze profitability based on products or customer behavior. 1. Manage your Financial Performance
Understand what enterprise performance management is, what it does to direct your financial performance, and what best practices you should follow.2. Financial Planning and Analysis Lifecycle
Strategy roll-out. Planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Profitability and cost management.
Monitoring and reporting. Find the information you need to best implement these essential practices.3. SAP EPM Applications
Learn about the SAP EPM applications and how they enable organizations to meet their strategic financial goals and performance improvement initiatives.4. Integration
Know how to extend the reach of EPM. You’ll learn about options for integrating SAP EPM
with SAP ERP, BI tools, and more.5. Move your SAP EPM Solution Forward
Scope out the road map and latest evolutions in EPM applications, including rapid-deployment solutions, starter kits, and SAP EPM Unwired.Highlights:

• Performance management lifecycle
• Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
• Financial close acceleration
• SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
• Financial Information Management
• Disclosure Management
• Integration
• Monitoring and reporting
• Profitability and cost management
• Strategy management