Tag Archives: Data Quality

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.

That Old House – Tidying up your ERP

When you moved into the new house, everything was clean, uncluttered, and ready for you to personalize and adapt to meet your needs. So it is when you first implement an ERP system. However, many people bring with them boxes of things no longer needed – data and structures from their legacy system that were […]

Going to the Dentist: Regular Maintenance Avoids a Reimplementation

When is the last time you went to the dentist? Do you stick to a rigid 6-month visit cycle? Did you need braces when you were younger to manage your growing, changing teeth? Just as with your teeth, regular maintenance of your Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS) avoids much pain. You can avoid having to replace […]

Cross-Validation Rules: Tips to Optimize your GL

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.

Tips to Ace your Audit

There are ways to leverage Oracle® E-Business Suite to run industry standard audit procedures and proactively identify areas of non-compliance in advance for a smoother audit process. Here are our recommended tips to Ace Your Audit: Know Why Automation is Important: Know how audit automation can facilitate current and future audit frameworks and standards and […]

5 Key Audit Procedures for Rock Solid Trial Balances

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.

Losing Control: Controls, Risks, Governance, and Stewardship of Enterprise Data

In large organizations, many different people are responsible for updating, creating, and deleting data in spreadsheets. Each time a spreadsheet is changed, there is a risk of losing the integrity of the data because of the number of cell references and relationships between each data item in the spreadsheet (and among many different spreadsheets). It […]

Characteristics of a World-Class Close

The concept of a world-class close has been around for decades, and with the economy booming, stalling, and then doing who-knows-what in the future, revisiting the elements of an exemplary close can bring unexpected benefits to any organization. Driving toward a world-class close means by definition that IT and Finance will become more flexible, more […]

The Bottom Line – Wheres the Money

Suppliers and consultants regularly make recommendations to their client companies. In many companies, these suppliers of products and services are trusted advisors, often having the responsibility of making a final decision on a project. Even with best intentions, however, the supplier’s decision of what is right for the customer is a difficult decision because there […]

What Workarounds Really Mean

It’s happening company-wide: Different divisions, from accounting to purchasing, are looking to cut down on costs and reduce inefficiencies in an attempt to ride out the latest economic tides. This belt-tightening attitude can be seen in the significant furloughs and lay-offs, and in the aversion companies have toward participating in internal projects that do not […]