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Hosted by: Financial Planning & Analysis SIG of the Financials Community

  • Understand the newest functionality which allows you to run a financial consolidation, live, on transactional data, at any time. With SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation optimized for SAP S/4HANA, real-time consolidation is now possible. Learn benefits:
  • Real-time data access, which gives you the ability to analyze consolidated actual and planned results, both before and subsequent to close, in near-real time
  • Radically reduced time between the close of books and the availability of fully consolidated and signed-off statements, giving you significantly more time to analyze as opposed to process
  • The ability to consolidate data to the desired level of granularity, because the level at which data is consolidated is no longer subject to traditional performance limitations
  • Continuous Accounting, which supports soft close and enables you to account continuously without having to wait for period-end to identify and correct issues

Speakers:

Elizabeth Milne, SAP

Elizabeth Milne has over 20 years of experience improving the software solutions for multi-national, multi-billion dollar organizations. Her finance career began working at Walt Disney then Warner Bros in the areas of financial consolidation, budgeting, and financial reporting. She subsequently moved to the software industry and has held positions including implementation consultant & manager, account executive, pre-sales consultant, solution management team at SAP, Business Objects and Cartesis. She graduated with an Executive MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In 2014 she published her first book “Accelerated Financial Closing with SAP.” She currently manages the accounting and financial close portfolio for SAP Product Marketing. You can follow her on twitter @ElizabethEMilne