Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Agenda
Overview Key Features Walk through Questions
Provision to specify CAR # (Capital Acquisition Request), Justification, Priority Additional hidden fields Freight, Installation, Tax,Retirement Obligations and Additional Charges
Account Dimension
Capital Assumptions
Assumed to be Global Assumptions across the application.
Asset Properties Asset ID Asset Description CAR No. UOM Purchase Reason Code Justification Priority Physical Location
Expense Accounts
Deprec Exp, Insurance Exp, Gain/Loss on Sale
Declining Balance By Year (Declining balance by Year) Declining Balance By period (Declining balance by Period)
Depreciation = Book value x Depreciation rate Book value = Cost - Accumulated depreciation
Intangible
Extensive List of items Goodwill, Patents, Copywrites Distribution Rights
For Reporting you will need to link together Accounts and Asset Classes to see PPE by Category
New
Out of the box comes with 30 preset members you can add more Allows you to detail out the acquisitions Add New Asset business rule adds the new members to the form.
Existing
Two Types Specified Unspecified
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Forms
Fifteen predefined Forms Forms for
Adding New Asset vs Managing Existing asset Adding a Tangible vs Intangible asset Summary Forms P/L Impact Forms Balance Sheet Impact Forms Cash Flow Impact Forms What If forms
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Flow
Main Form is the Global Assumptions Form
Set Useful lives by asset category for the entire application. Will need to customize if Useful lives vary Entity or region etc or if there are many useful lives for a single category Set the Depreciation method SL, SYD, Declining Balance Set Deprecation Convention Convention etc Set the Cash Flow Incidence When will the asset be paid for Set the Funding %, Funding Incidence Will it the company be taking a loan to get the asset When will the company get the funds to pay for the asset Funding % indicates how much the company will get from the outside to make the purchase. Set the Repairs & Maintenance, Insurance cost for asset additions Set the Amortization Method
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Flow Contd
Planners go in and add new assets Run Depreciation Expense Manage existing Assets
Improve existing Assets, Transfer Assets, Retire etc
Run rules
Depreciation Expense P&L Impact Balance Sheet Impact Cash Flow
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Associated Rules
CalcDeprec calculates depreciation and a whole lot more
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Physical Location
Need to update smart list
CAR #
Typically Planners dont know the number in advance
Depreciation is for one category at a time vs. all categories may get frustrating for clients
May want to modify RTP to do multiple categories
Forms total spending might want to change point of view to asset class in the rows
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Business Rules
Each rule has calc dim statements at the end. No real rule that aggregates the Entity for the User Rules do not have Set Calcupdate off in them. Need to modify Rollup Entity rolls up the entire Entity dimension.
May want to add a Run Time Prompt for Entity and fix rule
Out of the box Deprec Rule handles crossing years. Doesnt handle crossing over Scenarios Rules have many hidden prompts for various expense. Need to determine if they should be exposed.
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