Cognos 8 Controller - Brochure

Cognos Controller 8-Brochure


Consolidate thousands of operating units and accounts into a common chart-of-accounts structure.

Overview

IBM® Cognos® 8 Controller helps your finance organization manage the close, consolidation and reporting process.Automate your entire close process, from data collection to financial consolidation to output. Reduce close cycle times, assure data integrity and gain the transparency that is essential for sustained compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and IFRS.

•Reduce consolidation, close and reporting cycles by days or weeks—with a single version of the facts and automated validation.

•Consolidate multiple ledgers with thousands of operating units and accounts into a common chart-of-accounts structure.

•Create reports rapidly to facilitate compliance with IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404.

•Evaluate financial results with confidence and accuracy across multiple countries, currencies and legal entities, each with their own accounting policies intact.

•Support better planning and forecasting with reliable consolidated management data, based on a clear link between statutory and management consolidation.

Product Highlights

•Sophisticated, global consolidation functionality —to handle multiple reporting and consolidation standards such as IAS and US-based GAAP; inter-company elimination and reconciliation; multicurrency translation; complex ownership calculations and financial consolidation rules.

•Fully aligned with Microsoft Excel —users can log in to Controller for data collection or distribution from any location at any time though a familiar Excel interface , accessing financial information as their security levels allow .

•Adaptable to your unique requirements —in addition to management and statutory dimensions, Cognos 8 Controller provides user-defined dimensionality that supports data collection and reporting on all levels including cost center, product, and customer.

•Deployable by finance with IT appeal — Controller can be configured and maintained by financial professionals with minimal IT support. Using the most advanced and scaleable Web and relational data storage, users can input, consolidate and access data quickly and securely.

•Add other capabilities as your needs require —The industry's most comprehensive and award-winning planning, scorecarding, reporting, and analysis solutions from Cognos integrate seamlessly with Controller to help you manage your performance even more effectively.


Cognos Controller 8-Brochure