Cognos Finance

Designed by financial professionals for financial professionals, Cognos Finance is a comprehensive solution combining powerful consolidation capabilities, sophisticated budgeting and forecasting features and complete reporting and analysis.

Cognos Finance gathers financial data from numerous sources and creates a comprehensive financial repository - all of your financial information in one location. This allows financial professionals to go beyond the limitations of spreadsheets and general ledger system.

Consolidation

With Cognos Finance, you have the power to assemble and consolidate all of your financial data sources - spreadsheets, flat files, GL extracts and databases - to see a unified global picture of your corporate financials. Built-in consolidation features include:

> Inter-Company Eliminations

> Allocations

> Currency Conversions

Budgeting

In addition to processing and analysing actuals, Cognos Finance gives you the ability to perform business-critical budgeting and forecasting across LAN's, WAN's, and over the Web. Budgets are distributed to users in a controlled manner. Users start with zero data or populate data using wizards. During the budgeting process, all historical information and trends are available for comparison.

Forecasting

Forecasts represent revised targets or a complete analysis of your existing business. Incorporating new business opportunities and restructuring existing lines are just a few of the business problems Cognos Finance solves. With historical data, you can revise and test scenarios, creating forecasts with more certainty than ever before.

Reporting and Analysis

The ultimate purpose for Cognos Finance is to help you make decisions that optimise your Enterprise Business Performance.

Cognos Finance offers a robust and extensive suite of analysis and reporting capabilities, supporting report delivery without the need for IT assistance.

And these reports have context sensitive, data-aware intelligence that enable you to :

> Deliver standard reports - with dynamic text, linking and embedding

> Drill down for further information

> Use pivot tables for more complex queries

> Instantly create customised ad hoc reports

> Built-in hot-spot charting and graphing

All reporting and analysis capabilities are accessible through company intranets or extranets.

Best of all, through its direct connection to Cognos Powerplay, Cognos Finance lets you see your financial information from new perspectives, with the click of a mouse.

Further Product Information

> www.cognos.com/products/finance