Cognos Financial Performance General Ledger Analytics

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Analytic reporting for measuring strategic plans and financial performance

IBM® Cognos® Financial Performance General Ledger Analytics provides packaged reporting and analysis of general ledger accounts. It is a module of the Cognos Financial Performance Analytics application. The solution helps finance organizations monitor performance across income, balance sheet, and margin and revenue measures to assess how the organization is generating revenue and utilizing cash flow and assets.

Cognos Financial Performance General Ledger Analytics gives management an integrated view of financial performance, which can support the close process.

Analyze and report on key financial ratios—provide finance and line-of-business professionals with general ledger reporting and analysis.
Improve performance of financial processes—support a faster close process and generate standard reports to validate financial data.
Change as quickly as your business does—streamline the configuration of reports, and add new content quickly to meet changing business requirements.

Analyze and report on key financial ratios

Examine current and past financial performance, comparing financial ratios and metrics that affect leverage, liquidity and profitability.
Perform budget analysis to help business units and departments stay on budget and on plan for projected revenues and expenses.
Compare performance for legal and management entities such as subsidiaries and profit and cost centers.

Improve performance of financial processes

Perform quarterly close processes faster, with detailed transactional information including trial balances, income and cash flow analysis.
Replace inaccurate, manual internal controls with consistent reporting and analysis.
Eliminate the coding, customizing and interpreting of data required to update and modify reports.

Change as quickly as your business does

Access data residing in different transactional systems to gain an integrated view of financial performance.
Configure reports to meet changing business needs, enabling faster insight and smarter financial decisions.

Cognos Financial Performance General Ledger Analytics resources

White paper: Bridging Operational & Financial Forecasting
Learn how Cognos solutions help finance and other departments synchronize their financial and operational planning to optimize performance.

Demo: IBM Cognos Financial Performance Analytics
See how a straightforward prompt process enables finance users to analyze details and easily run reports.

White paper: Extending Planning & Forecasting with Analytics
Steve Player from the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable explains how finance teams can use advanced planning and forecasting to gain insight and make better business decisions.

White paper: Optimizing Transaction Systems for Faster Business Insight
Learn how packaged, self-service reporting and analysis gives you faster insight at the point of business impact.

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