Getting Started with Analytics and Reports Oracle Financials Cloud

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1 Financial ing Center Account Getting Started with Analytics and s Oracle Financials Cloud Oracle Financials Cloud Analytics give you the ability to report, chart, and analyze financial results by providing real-time reports based on your day-to-day financial data. Whether you re a financial specialist, accountant, manager, or executive, Oracle Financials Cloud Analytics are designed to help you focus on your financial data, save time, and improve your financial statements, reconciliations, and analyses. This guide describes the powerful financial reporting tools and robust reports, including the, the Financial ing Center,, the, and the. Copyright 2014 Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

2 Financial ing Center Source Data in a Cube Rapidly access financial data stored in the embedded using reporting and analytical tools. Gain speed, flexibility, and consistent data retrieval from one source and preaggregated data for your financial balances. Slice, dice, and drill into data across multiple dimensions for targeted, real-time analysis and reporting. Account

3 Financial ing Center Financial s Available On the Go Review and filter financial balances using the Financial ing Center. See what you need in different formats, including HTML, PDF, and spreadsheets. Use the point of view on each dimension to change the data in the report instantly. Drill into underlying balances, journals, and transaction details to enhance your analysis. Take your reports with you anywhere using the mobile version of the Financial ing Center. Account

4 Detailed Analysis When You Need It View and analyze balances with the online. Perform ad hoc multidimensional pivot table analysis. Drill from parent to child values and into journals and subledger transactions. Change points of view on each dimension to compare and further analyze your balances. Financial ing Center Account

5 Financial ing Center Monitor Balance Changes in Real Time Automatically monitor your key accounts with the in real time on an exception or permanent basis. Review both current and comparative balance, including comparisons with your budget numbers and across different time frames, such as PTD, YTD, QTD, or same period last year. Analyze change percentages based on your defined rules and thresholds. Be alerted to changes and if your balance variances are favorable or unfavorable. Account

6 Financial ing Center Analyze Your Data in a Click Save and reuse your spreadsheet with while keeping your analysis data current. Refresh the spreadsheet or select different criteria to pull in balances directly from the General Ledger with a click of the mouse. Drill from Excel to the to see the underlying journals and transaction balances. Account

7 Financial ing Center Visualize Your Balances Interact with your account balances across various business dimensions using the to view balances from different perspectives. Use account groups in this new simplified user interface for the Mobile Financial ing Center to analyze and investigate account balances in a visual pivot table called a Sunburst. Each accounting flexfield segment (dimension) corresponds to a Sunburstring. Balances are summarized by accounting flexfield segment value (member) and displayed as Sunburst nodes. Account

8 Assess Impacts and Accelerate Closing Understand the impact to the balance of an account before posting by viewing an account on a journal line in the the panel. Speed up closing entries by analyzing differences immediately. Financial ing Center Account

9 Financial ing Center Automate Reconciliations Use the to reconcile payables transactions to general ledger balances. Enhance your subledger to general ledger reconciliation process and quickly identify missing or incorrect entries. There are also similar reports for Receivables and Cash Management. Account

10 Improve Cash Inflows Review outstanding customer balances using the Account. Timely and accurate information helps you take appropriate action to collect overdue accounts quickly and enhance your cash flow. Financial ing Center Account

11 Identify Your Cash Outflows Use the to identify cash amounts needed to pay payables invoices. Improve cash flow management and capitalize on supplier discounts by using this report. Financial ing Center Account

12 Financial ing Center Finding Your Analytics Desktop One-stop financial reporting and analysis from the Financial Center including Financial s,, and. Tablet Access key reports and drill into analytics quickly with the Simplified User Interface. Mobile Access key reports and view drills into analytics quickly in a Sunburst using the Mobile Financial ing tool. For more information see: Using Analytics and s for Oracle Financials Cloud Creating Analytics and s for Oracle Financials Cloud Account

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