R12 Overview-V2.3

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Oracle E-Business Suite – What’s New in Financials

Release 12
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Today’s Quiz
What percent of companies have …
Implemented standard processes across the 35% 55% 75%

enterprise?
Adopted a standard chart of accounts across 26% 56% 86%

the enterprise?
Adopted functional best practices across the 12% 32% 52%

enterprise?
Rationalized finance platforms? 7% 17% 27%
Source: The Agile CFO, IBM Business Consulting Services

Finance Performance
Suffering from Lack of Standardization
HOW FINANCE SPENDS ITS TIME

• Nearly 50% on routine work
AREAS THAT FINANCE NEEDS TO IMPROVE
26% 47% Effectively leveraging technology 91%
Helping the company reduce risk 85%

Providing management information for 76%
27% decision making
Overall cost effectiveness 74%
Transactional Activities
Control Activities Dealing with complexity 72%
Decision Support, Performance Mgmt
Dealing with regulations 71%
The Agile CFO, IBM Business Consulting
Services, 2005 Corporate Finance Departments Leaving
Money on the Table , PWC Management
Barometer, 2006

Agenda
• What’s on the mind of the CFO?
• How can Financials Release 12 help?
• Why Upgrade?
• Q&A

Today’s CFO Agenda
GLOBALIZATION COMPLEXITY AND COSTS

…Today’s workforce, … Globalization brings
customers, suppliers, and complexity with it, and
competitors have all become unnecessary complexity
global drives up costs
GOVERNANCE, RISK &

INNOVATION AND GROWTH COMPLIANCE
… Not just any growth, but …Companies are under
growth that creates value pressure to do more than
just meet the letter of the
law

Globalization Adds Complexity
EXTENT TO WHICH VALUE CREATING ACTIVITIES

INCREASE COMPLEXITY
77% of global CEOs
Expansion into New Territories 29 42 23
say the level of
complexity in their
M&A 26 33 32
organizations is higher
New Product Launches 33 35 23 than 3 years ago
Strategic Alliances 36 36 16
Offshoring 34 33 16
Some Extent
Business Process Localization 39 29 11
Large Extent
Outsourcing 39 26 10
Very Large Extent
0 20 40 60 80 100
Percent
Source: PWC, 9th Annual Global CEO Survey

Complexity Drives Up Costs
•• Fragmented
Fragmented systems
systems
•• Varied
Varied policies,
policies, processes,
processes, controls,
controls, and
Costs
and
systems
systems
•• Manual
Manual processes
processes
• Consolidated systems
• Standard policies, processes, controls and
systems
• Automated and best practice processes
Complexity

Back to the Basics
Consolidate, Centralize, and Standardize
Major Focus
STANDARDIZING operating practices and

controls
69%
50%
Senior executives say
STANDARDIZING policies and business 66%
simplification is
rules
driving the Finance
STANDARDIZING and integrating finance 59% agenda
systems
Adopting BEST PRACTICES 58%
Optimizing the finance organization and 52%

its reporting structure
Reducing reliance on spreadsheets 33%
Source: PWC Management Barometer

Anthony Salcido
VP and Corporate Controller,
Toyota Motor Sales USA
“We’ve provided corporate

assurance from a controllership
perspective by centralizing our
foundational accounting activities,
defining our corporate policies and
procedures, and standardizing our
processes.”

How Oracle Financials Can Help
Making Every Finance Job Easier
GLOBALIZATION COMPLEXITY AND COSTS

• Work across applications, • Quickly integrate new
divisions and regions businesses
• Achieve global view of • Support growth at lower
customer, supplier, partner cost
and operations • Meet varied reporting
• Manage global applications standards
easier
INNOVATION AND GROWTH GOVERNANCE, RISK &

• Adapt to business change COMPLIANCE
• Make the right investments • Control costs and risks
• Drive performance • Protect your resources
• Enforce accountability

Agenda
• Why Upgrade?
• Q&A

Safe Harbor Statement
The following is intended to outline our general

product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any
material, code, or functionality, and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decision. The
development, release, and timing of any features or
functionality described for Oracle’s products remains
at the sole discretion of Oracle.

Financials Release 12
The Global Business Release
WORK GLOBALLY THINK GLOBALLY MANAGE GLOBALLY

To Be More Competitive To Make the Right Decisions To Lower Cost & Increase
Performance
Work better across applications, Achieve global view of customer, Implement, manage, and scale
divisions, and regions supplier, partner & operations global applications easier
• Flexible, centralized, • Truly integrated • Integration with core
global accounting performance industry applications
structure management • Self-service report
• 300+ enhancements to • Real-time profitability formats and publication
best practice business analysis • Superior ownership
processes • Unified financial and experience
• Comprehensive operational analytic
governance, risk and applications
compliance platform

WORK Globally

Global Architecture
More Control, Greater Flexibility, Lower Costs
MULTIPLE 1 Centralized Architecture

2
LEDGERS
3rd Party LEGAL ENTITY
Systems 2.1
General Ledger
2.2 ACCOUNTING
Dr Cr
Centralized Accounting Model, 2.3 BANK MODEL
Rules, Engine and Repository
2.4 TAX ENGINE
2.5 INTERCOMPANY
Legal Entity Banking Global Tax Intercompany
Accounting
3
E-Business Suite
3rd Party ROLE BASED ACCESS
Systems Inventory Receivables Projects
Purchasing Payables Work in Process
to Operating Units

Multiple Ledgers 1
More Efficient Period-end Processing
Must Share:
Ledger Set Chart of Accounts
Calendar
Ledger C
US GAAP
US COA
Ledger B Ledger A US Calendar
US GAAP Defined by 4 C’s: USD
French Rules
Plan Comptable US COA • Accounting
French Calendar US Calendar Convention
EUR EUR • Chart of Accounts Ledger D
• Calendar US GAAP
• Currency US COA
US Calendar
GBP
Ledger Set Benefits:
• Cross/Multiple Ledger processing and reporting
• Data and definitions that can be shared and secured
• Native support for multiple accounting representations Reporting Currency

Get the Legal Entity Right 2.1
Compliance falls into place
Why We Care LE’s in Release 12
• LEs pay the taxes • Tax

• Need tax registrations • Registered companies calculate,
file, and pay the transaction taxes
they owe
• Trade between LEs • Intercompany
• Need intercompany • Do business between and across
your registered companies with full
legal documentation
• LEs own the money and bank • Bank Model
accounts • Registered companies use their
money to pay their bills, etc.
• LEs file the accounts • Accounting
• Takes care of accounting • Assign books, bookkeeping rules
and currency management to your
registered companies

Centralized Legal Entity Management 2.1
Easier Compliance for Complex Structures
Registered Company Requirements

Public
Company ACCOUNTING
• Manage books, bookkeeping
Subsidiary Subsidiary rules and currencies
Public
Company Company TAX
Company
(regional parent) (business parent) • Calculate, file, and pay
transaction taxes
Subsidiary Subsidiary Subsidiary INTERCOMPANY
Company Company Company • Legally document business
transactions between registered
Subsidiary Subsidiary companies
Company Company BANK MODEL
• Segregate money between
registered companies to pay
Legal entities (parent and subsidiary) bills, etc.
“Group” structure

Centralized Accounting Policies 2.2
Greater Control, Transparency and Auditability
• Internal control and

compliance with multiple
3rd Party accounting policies through
Systems
General Ledger user-defined accounting rules
• Single source of truth for all
Dr Cr
subsystem accounting activity
Centralized Accounting Model, with a common data model
Rules, Engine and Repository and repository
• Accounting, reconciliation
and reporting facilitated by
Legal Entity Banking Global Tax Intercompany centralized data model
Accounting
• Streamline closing process
3rd Party E-Business Suite with common posting engine
Systems Inventory Receivables Projects
Purchasing Payables Work in Process • Auditable and transparent
entries accessible with full
drilldown

Multiple Accounting Representations
Parallel Financial Reporting 1 + 2.2
Ledger B Ledger A
French Rules US GAAP
Plan Comptable US COA
French Calendar US Calendar
EUR EUR
Dr Cr
Centralized
Accounting Single
Single business
business transaction
transaction
can
can create
create multiple
multiple
accounting
accounting representations
representations
and in multiple currencies
Payables Invoice

Centralized Banking and Payments 2.3
Funds Disbursements and Capture

• Bank account is now
associated with LE entity
rather than Operating Unit
LE
• Single bank account serves
OU A OU B OU C multiple Operating Units
• Any and all Operating Units
associated with a ledger can be
permitted to use the bank
account
Inventory Receivables Projects

Plus
Work in Process Purchasing Payables Assets
 Centralized Credit Card Model
E-Business Suite  Credit Card Encryption
 Supplier & Customer Banks in TCA
Example: Shared Service Disbursement
OU A
OU B
Centralized
Accounting
OU C Single
Payment Bank Payments
Instruction
1. Setup accounting policies

2. Select invoices from multiple OUs
3. Format for bank and disbursement
countries
Invoices
4. Send single instruction to bank
5. Generate separate payments for
each OU
Centralized Global Tax 2.4
Less Complex Global Tax Compliance
Benefits Solution
• Automated processing based on predefined tax rules

• Simplified tax configuration (shared across legal entities and Oracle apps)
Operational Efficiency
• Standard services to all eBusiness applications
• Integration with external tax vendors (Taxware and Vertex in the U.S.)
• Single data model for rules and transactions across geographies and
Global Management, applications
Local Compliance • Centralized tax repository provides global visibility
• Self-Service for Tax Managers
• Tax reporting ledger provides single source of the truth and complete
auditability
Information Visibility
• Configurable tax reporting templates
• Tax simulator for setup, rules, and transactions

Centralized Intercompany 2.5
Faster Period-End Close

Advanced Global
Intercompany
System
Subledger
Invoices &
Manual Documents
Entry
Open
Interfaces /  Generate subledger invoices
API Online
 Control transaction entry with Reconciliation
Intercompany Calendar Reporting
Excel  Fully Configurable Approval
(Web ADI) Rules
 Centrally defined Intercompany XML
Accounts Publisher
 Transaction-level balancing Reports
Dr Cr
General Subledger
Ledger Accounting Receivables Payables

Role-Based Access 3
More Productive Shared Services Operations
Perform multiple tasks across operating units without changing

responsibilities
Belgium Holland Denmark

Legal Entity Legal Entity Legal Entity
Functional Tasks
Accounting
Belgium Holland Denmark Billing, Dunning
Operating Unit
& Collections
Operating Unit Operating Unit
Procurement
Responsibility Order Management
SingleResponsibility
ResponsibilityResponsibility Payments
Data Management

Governance, Risk and

Compliance

Global Compliance and Reporting*
Integrated Financial Reporting & Compliance Mgmt
Financial Consolidation Hub
New in FCH
• Monitor consolidation process
and certification status
• Drill-back to certification status
in ICM
• Spreadsheet drill-back to
source transactions
• Dynamic spreadsheet-based
statutory and mgmt reporting
New in ICM Internal Controls Manager

• Compliant access provisioning
• Continuous monitoring of profile
options
• Monitoring of application controls at
supplier sites
• Online and report history of application
control changes
* Available Pre-R12

Common System for Global Compliance
Oracle Internal Controls Manager
Compliance Intelligence
Organization Certification
Summary
New Capabilities
• Prevent constraint violations • Alert process owners to changes
• Increase visibility to inter-conflicts in user profiles
• Improve tracking violations • Compare profiles to industry
• standards
Reduce the number of constraints

Global Visibility and Integration
One-Touch
Consolidation
Data
Transformation
& Validation
Oracle EBS Results
Auditing
PeopleSoft E
Operating
Balances Financial Report
JD Edwards E1 Generation
Consolidation
SAP
Multi-Dimensional
Legacy Apps Analysis
Compliance
Certification

Spreadsheet Reporting with Live Drill
Interactive
spreadsheet
with
live drill to
transactions

THINK Globally

Truly Integrated CPM Applications Work Think Manage
Executives Managers Analysts
• Make timely decisions

with integrated
Reporting Planning information systems
Consolidation
& Compliance
Profitability
Analysis
Forecasting
& Modeling
Portfolio
Analysis
• Target information
delivery with role-
based dashboards
Operational Performance Network Inventory • Protect organizational
Reporting Scorecards Optimization Optimization
integrity with secure
information delivery
Transaction Processing Sensor

Users
Financials, Supply Chain, Projects, Based

PLM, Sales & Marketing, HR, Service Services

Planning & Modeling Work Think Manage
Enterprise Planning and Budgeting

Financial Statistical New Capabilities
Operational External Ease and efficiency of Use
• Business process definition
duplication
• Improved analyst calculation
maintenance
Integration
• Report FCH data in EPB
• Report PFT data in EPB
Flexibility
• Enhanced dimension handling
Perform Multi-Dimensional Analysis

within Existing Relational Database

Management Reporting Work Think Manage
Balanced Scorecard
Sample of available Views New Views
Strategy Maps Portal Pages

Dashboards
Strategic Objectives
Reports
New Capabilities*
• Create, publish & view Dashboards • Integration with Oracle
and Reports Warehouse Builder – BSC Expert
• Automatically generate • Support for Analytical
summarization data mart for all or Workspaces
selected objectives or reports • Load actual and benchmark data
• New Migration module in HTML using Web ADI (Excel templates)
* Available Pre-R12

Real-Time Profitability Analysis Work Think Manage
Profitability Manager*
Cost Pools
• Achieve global view
Models of profitability from
% Distributions
Methods multiple data sources
Rate X Volume
• Calculate profitability
based on user-definable
Profitability rules and formulas
Engine
• Analyze profitability
along any dimension
Drivers Statistics including geography,
Resources Costs / Revenue product, channel,
Activities Transactions segment, customer,
organization, etc
* Available Pre-R12

Operational Reporting Work Think Manage
Receivables Management Dashboard
Evaluate
Evaluate impact
impact of
of
billing
billing activity
activity on
on DSO
DSO
Analyze
Analyze collection
collection
effectiveness
effectiveness over
over time
time

Operational Reporting Work Think Manage
Receivables Status Dashboard
Monitor
Monitor open
open receivables
receivables
Target
Target delinquent
delinquent
customers
customers requiring
requiring
special
special attention
attention

MANAGE Globally

Work Think Manage
Comprehensive Integration Repository
A Catalog of All EBS Integration Points • Enable key integration types

• Web Services • Business Events - Business to Business
• Public Java & PL/SQL APIs • Batch Interfaces - Enterprise Application Integration
- Business Process Management
- Business Activity Monitoring
• Support industry-standard
messages
• Support standards-based
XML documents
• Search and view available

interfaces via powerful UI
• Automatically keep in step with

source code via standard patching

Integration with Core Applications Work Think Manage
Oracle | Retek Integration with BPEL

• Lower cost integration between disparate systems
• Better performance with integrated business flows across applications
Accounts
Merchandising
Inbound Retek Data Payable
• Matched invoices • Daily sales
E-Business Financials
• Credit notes • Cash and deposits
Invoice • Debit memos • Inventory General
Matching Ledger
• Rebates • Sales data
Accounts
Sales Audit Outbound Financials Data Receivable
• Suppliers • Payment terms
• Partners • GL accounts
• Addresses • Currency rates
Stock Ledger • Freight terms Cash
Management

Data Management Work Think Manage
Leveraging centralized data model
Global Tax Payments

Payables Cash
Purchasing Authorities, Party Management
Geographies, etc. Information Banks and
Suppliers
Branches
Trading
Community
Architecture
Oracle Fusion Middleware
ERP CRM 3rd

rd Party

Self-Service Reporting Work Think Manage
XML Publisher
Reporting Evolution Benefits
• Replaces most standard reports • Put reporting in the hands of

with data extracts and the business user
templates • Create report formats using
• Merges custom templates and desktop tools (Adobe
data extracts at run-time Acrobat, MS Word, MS Excel,
and XSL Editors)
• Delivers output in PDF, HTML,
RTF, Excel (HTML), or text for
• Publish in any format, to the
web and electronically
use with EFT and EDI
transmissions • Drive reporting consistency
with one source of data
““Oracle’s
Oracle’s new
new XML
XML Publisher
Publisher is
is visionary
visionary and
and empowers
empowers end
end users.
users. This
This new
new capability
capability
gives
gives customers the look and feel of Excel with a desktop publishing look to reports, and
customers the look and feel of Excel with a desktop publishing look to reports, and
enables users to create their own reports, minimizing the dependency on the IT
enables users to create their own reports, minimizing the dependency on the IT staff.”staff.”
---- Sean
Sean Malinski,
Malinski, Accenture
Accenture Partner,
Partner, Global
Global
Business Solutions - Oracle Practice

Superior Ownership Experience Work Think Manage
11i User Experience

• Define/Assign Set of Books, Specify Conversion options/rules
Defining a set of books takes 5

tabs to accommodate all fields
and rules
Multiple steps required to

assign sets of books and
specify conversion
options/rules

Single Page for Accounting Setup
• Legal Entities
• Ledgers
• Currencies
• Balancing
Segments
• Subledger
Accounting
• Operating
Units
• Balancing
Options

Better Upgrades
Continuity and Choice
 Uptake new features  Run your business the  Minimize manual work
at your pace same way
Testing – More customer database upgrades; more

dependency analysis and management
Upgrade Process – Fewer pre- and post-upgrade
steps
Documentation – More comprehensive functional
upgrade impact; improved sizing guidelines; downtime
reduction techniques
“Many clients are evaluating whether to upgrade from Oracle E-Business Suite 11i to
Release 12 or wait for the larger Fusion release. There are significant application and
architecture changes in Release 12. Upgrading now will help build the foundation to
prepare for Fusion—maximizing business value while mitigating risk.”
-- Sean Malinski, Accenture Partner, Global Business
Solutions - Oracle Practice

Enhanced Industry Support
Manufacturing Asset Service Public

Intensive Services
• Regulatory • Common asset • Financials and • Centralized
compliance for repository Retek and
clinical trials • Enhanced fleet Merchandising configurable
and 21 CFR asset integration budgetary
Part II management • Financial control and
• Support for 21 Services accounting
CFR Part II Accounting • Enhanced
• Enhanced Hub shared
budgeting and services
forecasting

Agenda
• Why Upgrade?
• Q&A

Why Upgrade
Straight Talk from Customers
“We have 60 sets of books and see tremendous efficiencies with running
processes across these sets of books using Ledger Sets.”
“Ability to issue one payment instruction to the bank for payments of invoices
in multiple operating units was viewed as a huge benefit from the user
community.”
“Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC) will definitely reduce the workload and the
number of people performing process related tasks. The users are very excited
and the benefits of MOAC were readily visible to them.”
“The ability to access multiple operating units with a single responsibility can
simplify SOX compliance monitoring.”
“The functionality offered with Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS),

specifically the creation of physical invoices to be created for I/C transactions in
Payables and Receivables eliminates many customizations in this area.”
“Centralization of subledger accounting rules would minimize set up and

maintenance, providing greater financial control, and enforcing a consistent
approach for true global accounting.”
“Banks, taxes, payments, and accounting – everything that becomes centralized
will bring tremendous efficiencies to our organization.”

Why Upgrade
Straight Talk from Partners
“The new financials architecture will enable our joint clients to work globally to be
more competitive, think globally to make the right decisions, and manage
globally to lower cost and increase performance.”
-- Brian A. Mitchell, IBM Global Business Services Worldwide and
Americas Oracle Practice Lead Executive
“Oracle continues to invest in a better user experience in E-Business Suite

Financials Release 12—from centralized accounting, tax and supplier
maintenance to a new user interface.”
-- Sean Malinski, Accenture Partner, Global
“IBM found the Oracle E-Business Suite Release12 to be rich in the functionality
that our clients need to succeed in today's business world.”
-- Brian A. Mitchell, IBM Global Business Services Worldwide and
Americas Oracle Practice Lead Executive

Why Upgrade
Multinational Customers
 Manage complexity at lower cost
 Comply with international regulations and standards
 Reduce upgrade risk

Why Upgrade
Domestic Customers
 Lower TCO
 Improve user experience
 Reduce upgrade risk

Q&
A
QUESTIONS
ANSWERS

Financials Release 12
The Global Business Release
WORK GLOBALLY THINK GLOBALLY MANAGE GLOBALLY

To Be More Competitive To Make the Right Decisions To Lower Cost & Increase
Performance
Work better across applications, Achieve global view of customer, Implement, manage, and scale
divisions, and regions supplier, partner & operations global applications easier
• Flexible, centralized, • Truly integrated • Integration with core
global accounting performance industry applications
structure management • Self-service report
• 300+ enhancements to • Real-time profitability formats and publication
best practice business analysis • Superior ownership
processes • Unified financial and experience
• Comprehensive operational analytic
governance, risk and applications
compliance platform

Overall Business Benefits
• Faster, simpler period end processing
• Centralized and standardized key business functions
• More productive shared services operations

300+ New Features

New in Financial Control & Reporting Work Think Manage
Highly automated financials processing drives efficiencies
• Centralized accounting setup

• Streamlined multiple ledger processing and reporting
• Parallel financial reporting EFFICIENCY
EFFICIENCY
• Automatic reporting currency conversion
• Replacement for disabled accounts
• Data security across legal entities, ledgers or balancing

segment values FLEXIBILITY
FLEXIBILITY
• Control Accounts
• Accounting and reporting sequencing

AUDITABILITY
AUDITABILITY
• Journal line reconciliation

New in Procure-to-Pay Work Think Manage
Integrated Suite Optimizes Working Capital
• Document line level entry and approval

• Non-PO invoice accounting entry by approvers
• Invoice dispute management PRODUCTIVITY
• Real-time status of purchasing contract T&Cs and
invoicing activity in Oracle Payables and Purchasing
• Self-service opportunities via iSupplier Portal to a

broader set of their suppliers COST
COST SAVINGS
SAVINGS
• Self service entry extended to receipt matched,
complex Work Purchase Orders, and non-PO invoices
• Streamlined supplier setup and maintenance as part of

Trading Community Architecture (TCA) INTEGRATION
INTEGRATION
• Access to TCA features

New in Credit-to-Cash Work Think Manage
Accelerate cash cycle and manage revenue with fiscal discipline
• Daily revenue recognition

• Deferral reason for goods and services
COMPLIANCE
COMPLIANCE
• COGS and revenue matching
• Line level cash application
• More efficient payment application with Oracle Payments

integration
• More targeted and efficient collections with configurable
matrix BETTER
BETTER CASH
CASH FLOW
• Credit recommendation enhancements
• Conversion of delinquent receivables to payment plans
• Visibility to carry-forward balances with cycle-based

billing INDUSTRY SUPPORT
SUPPORT
• Payment application according to customer preferences

New in Cash and Treasury Work Think Manage
Optimize Cash and Treasury Operations
• Centralized and consolidated bank model

• Single bank account shared by multiple organizations
EFFICIENCY
EFFICIENCY
• Bank account transfers directly in Cash Management
• Funds optimization with cash pooling and zero balancing
• Configurable and centralized payments engine

• Full audit trail and control with single point of payment
administration
• Straight through processing (STP) for payments COMPLEXITY
• Real-time visibility into cash inflows and outflows
• Large library of payment formats and validations
• Simplified reconciliation of bank statements to cash

transactions in multiple organizations
• Support for new bank account balance types in bank FLEXIBILITY
statement import
• Bank account-level reconciliation options and tolerances

New in Asset Management Work Think Manage
Maximize return on assets
• Automate legacy asset conversion with enhanced

preparation of Mass Additions EFFICIENCY
• Perform rollback on select assets with Automatic

PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
Depreciation Rollback
• Group Assets to include “Units of Production” method

• Energy straight-line depreciation method INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY SUPPORT
SUPPORT
• Asset impairment of a producing asset

New in Travel & Expense Work Think Manage
Lower the total cost of travel and expense
• CONUS and OCONUS global per diem rates

LOWER COSTS
COSTS
• Per diem and policy schedules
• Expense splitting across multiple accounting segments

ACCURACY
ACCURACY
• Enhanced cost center and projects approvals
• Self-service cash advance application during entry

• Bar code generation
PRODUCTIVITY
• Streamlined receipts management with receipts tracking
and receipts missing capabilities

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Oracle E-Business Suite – What’s New in Financials

What percent of companies have …

Implemented standard processes across the 35% 55% 75%

Adopted a standard chart of accounts across 26% 56% 86%

Adopted functional best practices across the 12% 32% 52%

Rationalized finance platforms? 7% 17% 27%

Source: The Agile CFO, IBM Business Consulting Services

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HOW FINANCE SPENDS ITS TIME

Helping the company reduce risk 85%

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• What’s on the mind of the CFO?

• How can Financials Release 12 help?

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GLOBALIZATION COMPLEXITY AND COSTS

GOVERNANCE, RISK &

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EXTENT TO WHICH VALUE CREATING ACTIVITIES

Source: PWC, 9th Annual Global CEO Survey

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STANDARDIZING operating practices and

Optimizing the finance organization and 52%

Reducing reliance on spreadsheets 33%

Source: PWC Management Barometer

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“We’ve provided corporate

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GLOBALIZATION COMPLEXITY AND COSTS

INNOVATION AND GROWTH GOVERNANCE, RISK &

© 2006 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential

• What’s on the mind of the CFO?

• How can Financials Release 12 help?

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The following is intended to outline our general

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WORK GLOBALLY THINK GLOBALLY MANAGE GLOBALLY

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MULTIPLE 1 Centralized Architecture

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Compliance falls into place

Why We Care LE’s in Release 12

• LEs pay the taxes • Tax

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Easier Compliance for Complex Structures

Registered Company Requirements

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Greater Control, Transparency and Auditability

• Internal control and

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Funds Disbursements and Capture

Inventory Receivables Projects

1. Setup accounting policies

Less Complex Global Tax Compliance

• Automated processing based on predefined tax rules

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Faster Period-End Close

© 2006 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential