An exercise that CFOs enjoy and that brings great satisfaction when everything matches. Cash Flow Statement with indirect method in #FCCS. Accounts and transaction tracking, basic levels of sophistication (pure raw variation in Working Capital) to advanced levels (Cash In and Cash Out from investments and loans, exchange rate effects). The template, including the calculation … Read More
Consulting
Consulting stories: changing consolidation scope maintaining comparability with previous data
Use case on #HFM and #FCCS. Today we were asked to move a company from one sub-consolidation node to another, starting in 2026, without changing historical data. We successfully tested the solution of a single entity shared across two different nodes, along with management of the consolidation method. Always using our working method, which includes: … Read More
Consulting stories: playing with EPM scenarios
Many key users and controllers call them “environments.” Technically, they’re called “scenarios.” We can use them in #FCCS, #PBCS, and #HFM to test major changes without corrupting official data. Yesterday, we needed to see in real time how balance sheet and profit and loss uploaded with a TXT file rather than an Excel Input Package … Read More
Consulting stories: Take your time to create a good blueprint!
Today, we’re working on a recently acquired and live #EPM application. It was developed a year ago, but it’s already full of outdated structures and records, the result of a hastily conducted analysis that focused heavily on the existing model and paid little attention to business evolution. In an EPM project, before technical implementation, we … Read More
Consulting stories: prepare deconsolidation rules from first implementation phase!
Highly recommended for those who are working on it: include scope change and deconsolidation rules in #FCCS from the first implementation phase. This is a best practice we learned along many many projects and case histories 😀 Dedicate the time you need to this specific activity. Plan for everything: exits from consolidation scope, mergers, changes … Read More
Consulting stories: populating #FCCS and #PBCS applications from Excel files
It was Tuesday, November 4th, with an FCCS application still to be created and a project plan running smoothly from December to February 2026. Top management asked us to see no.3 consolidated closings by the end of November and a report with intercompany matching by tomorrow, November 12th, with the goal of using FCCS to … Read More
Twenty years together with key-users
Around seventy client companies from various sectors, approximately ninety implementations of Oracle hashtag#FCCS, Oracle hashtag#PBCS, Oracle hashtag#EPRCS, Hyperion Financial Management (hashtag#HFM), Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion hashtag#Essbase technologies, and the development of two application accelerators—or Starter Kits for Italian GAAP and IFRS—on Oracle FCCS and on HFM for Statutory Consolidated Financial Statements. The maturity (and job … Read More
EPM Projects: the importance of customization
As part of FY2025 campaign to promote EXPERLAB Consulting services, we are offering a webinar for all interested parties, which will be held on Friday, April 11, 2025, at 3:00 pm CET. The main focus will be on the creation of custom EPM applications, always tailored to the customer with whom we design them. In … Read More
From 2024 to 2025. Best wishes!!
Fourth consecutive year of growth for EXPERLAB. The market rewards our knowledge of Oracle EPM on-prem and cloud technology – with twenty years of experience, but above all our knowledge of the Financial Closing processes of Consolidated Financial Statements, Planning & Management Reporting. We feel like saying that this is our added value and what … Read More
Main Reporting for Consolidated Financial Statements
We have finished a day of numbers and financial statement checks to validate the reconciliation statement between the parent company’s equity and result and the consolidated equity and result. As an old friend of us, a key user of HFM, used to say: “if the reconciliation statement is validated, everything is ok and I don’t … Read More
