Category Archives: Webinars On-Demand

Now You See It- Gaining Audit Superpowers with BI Exploratory Data Visualizations

There are insights in your accounting and operational data that you can’t see in tabular or report form. Powerful, but underutilized audit superpowers are exploratory data visualizations that can give you x-ray vision and help you see the hidden stories your organization’s data is telling. This session will teach you five simple, but powerful data exploratory analytics with real Power BI and Excel use-case examples that you can begin using in your audit shop immediately.

Mergers & Acquisitions: Building an ERP Toolkit for Smooth Transitions

In the modern business landscape, global organizations are finding enhanced growth and competitive success from expanding their merger, acquisition, divestiture, and organizational change activities. For the well-prepared ERP professionals, this can feel like embarking on an exciting and long-awaited road trip, for others, it can be a harrowing journey of lost time and wrong turns […]

Now You See It: Understanding and Using the Power of Exploratory Visualizations to Gain Insight into Your Audit Data

Modern ERP systems can contain millions if not billions of transactions and balances. Auditing that volume of data efficiently and effectively using traditional sampling and tabular methods is difficult if not impossible. Moving beyond the traditional charts and graphs have long been a tool to allow auditors to illustrate audit findings and results, exploratory data visualization techniques can allow you to gain insights and identify audit issues that spreadsheets and sampling cannot. In this webinar, you will learn three exploratory data visualizations that you can immediately incorporate into your audits.

Chart of Accounts Transformation Master Class: Tips for Designing Effective Charts

Automation continues to transform whole industries – and finance and audit are no exception. Specific to the financial audit, most of the high-volume, routine, non-judgmental activities in real time are being transformed by software, leaving audit professionals more time to do what they do best: analyze results and make expert judgement calls. This webinar focuses on the framework and standards under which audits are currently conducted, and will showcase real-world examples where automation streamlines workflows to transform the entire audit process.

Your AP Data is Telling You Something: Five Analytics to Identify Duplicate Payments and Other Irregularities

Patterns exist in your accounts payable data that can indicate overpayments, duplicate payments, or other errors. This webinar will teach you five easy analytics that you can perform using Excel to identify some of these patterns.

A Stress Free Guide to Mergers, Acquisitions, & Divestitures

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are full of opportunities to take advantage of complementary resources, discover new market opportunities, reinvent processes, and capitalize on excitement. Familiarize yourself with best practices to ensure your organization is getting the most value out of the deal. Having supported over $400 billion worth of merger, acquisitions and divestiture transactions with […]

10 Steps to Reduce Complexity, Increase Transparency, and Get Value from your ERP System

Common data definitions that are aligned with business processes are what allow organizations to change as a result of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, new regulatory requirements, and new market initiatives. It has probably been years since you have taken steps to reevaluate the future business requirements and ensure that you are able to move in new […]

Mergers & Acquisitions: Realizing the Value

Mergers and acquisitions carry the added weight of introducing redundant systems that duplicate functionality. Learn how to overcome the value gap to take advantage of emergent synergies by aligning your transaction and transition efforts. With experience supporting almost $300 billion worth of merger, acquisitions and divestiture transactions with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) customers our speaker […]

Complexities of Separating Data in an ERP Environment

In an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment, multiple organizations can exist within a single instance. How does the data belonging to these organizations co-exist, and what are the challenges that companies face when they have to separate the data based on business reasons? With a focus on Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS), this session will explore the best ways to address complexities in ERP environments to achieve success when separating data.

Advanced Excel® Tips and Tricks for E-Business Suite Users

This session focuses on how Excel can make EBS users more productive and become power-users quickly. Full of tips on using formulas, pivot tables and hyperlinks, Excel helps streamline your reporting and makes your EBS data more accessible. Of course, good data quality, a good chart of accounts design, and configurations that align with your business help you take advantage of the secret weapons that our Excel expert, Tiffany Newkirk, will share in this session. The webinar is not for beginners and focuses on a live demo with real-world examples.