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Financial Intelligence
Posted by Dylan Wan on May 6, 2008
Account receivables can have a big impact to the cash flow of an organization. Bad credit can hurt your company’s bottom line. Manging customer credits help the company to manage the risk and avoid the issues.
In this post, I will touch credit check and credit limit, centralized and decentralized credit management, and credit limit currency. This is a a result of studying various credit management features in the OLTP system. The objective is to understand how the these various system works and understand how the credit management process looks like, and how BI can help in these processses.
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Posted in BI, BI Application, BI Work, Business Intelligence, EBS, Financial Intelligence, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP | Tagged: Account Receivables Analytics | 2 Comments »
Posted by Dylan Wan on February 26, 2008
I will discuss the following topics:
- What is the 13 period calendar?
- Who uses the 13 period calendar?
- How is it different from the 4-4-5 calendar?
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Posted in BI, BI Application, BI Work, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Financial Intelligence, Sales Intelligence | 9 Comments »
Posted by Dylan Wan on January 27, 2008
Cost Center Hierarchy is an important dimension is the Performance Management system. The cost center concept is described in many Managerial Accounting books. I think that going back to where it was originated help us to understand how it should be designed and used in a Business Analytics Data Warehouse.
A cost center is described as an essential element used in the responsibility accounting reporting system. Here are the major concepts about the responsibility accounting and cost center described in the managerial accounting field.
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Posted in BI, BI Application, BI Work, EBS, EPM, Financial Intelligence, SAP | 2 Comments »
Posted by Dylan Wan on February 27, 2007
Account Receivables aging report and Daily Sales Outstanding are two metrics commonly seen in the Financial Analytics for measuring the performance of the Account Receivables, Credit Management, and Collection departments. Here are how they are calculated, who the users are, and how they may affect the business decisions. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in BI, BI Application, Business Intelligence, Financial Intelligence, Siebel Analytics | 7 Comments »
Posted by Dylan Wan on February 15, 2007
Book to Bill ratio is the ratio of orders booked for future delivery to orders being shiped immediately, and therefore billed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dylan Wan on December 25, 2006
This arcticles examines the major business drivers of business intelligence and the typical business intelligence applications. Some BI applications are common for all types of enterprise, others are specific to some industries.
Posted in BI, BI Application, Business Intelligence, Customer Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Financial Intelligence, Human Resource Intelligence, Marketing Intelligence, Procurement Intelligence, Project Intelligence, Sales Intelligence, Service Intelligence | Leave a Comment »
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