Enterprise Planning and Budgeting close cloud Training [EPBCS] - 35 Hours

Enterprise Planning and Budgeting close cloud Training [EPBCS] - 35 Hours

About Oracle EPBCS

Oracle released Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS), a planning and budgeting solution with powerful reporting capabilities for enterprise level customers. EPBCS is the most recent cloud-based release of their Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platform for customers whose road maps include transitioning to the cloud in order to eliminate hardware and software requirements and reduce their overall cost of owning software. Enterprise companies are aggressively adopting cloud solutions as a means to retain their competitive advantage and increase profitability.

Understand the features and capabilities of this cloud-based solution and understand fundamental concepts that underpin business planning processes. Learn about the EPBCS frameworks and their features and capabilities. Gain an in-depth understanding of the available options and how to work with the specific interfaces available for each framework. Explore the dimensionality, along with the dashboards, forms, rules and workflows that enable users to complete planning activities. This course provides audiences with hands-on experience of working with EPBCS, enabling them to work successfully with the various frameworks. Get a high level overview of the enabled features and capabilities of EPBCS and explore each of the frameworks in turn

Audience

Implementation consultants, developers, system administrators

Learning objectives

Learn about the EPBCS frameworks and their features and capabilities. Gain an in-depth understanding of the available options and how to work with the specific interfaces available for each framework.

Course description

Understand the features and capabilities of this cloud-based solution and understand fundamental concepts that underpin business planning processes. Explore the dimensionality, along with the dashboards, forms, rules and workflows that enable users to complete planning activities. This course provides attendees with hands-on experience of working with EPBCS, enabling them to work successfully with the various frameworks. Get a high level overview of the enabled features and capabilities of EPBCS and explore each of the frameworks in turn.

  • Financial Statement Planning
    Find out how core financial statements, such as balance sheets, cash flow statements and income statements can be prepared.
  • Workforce Planning
    Examine how headcount and related expenses can be managed collaboratively.
  • Capital Asset Planning
    Investigate how to manage, prioritize and plan for capital expenses.
  • Project Financial Planning
    Monitor how assets and resources are allocated across projects to improve decision making processes.

Major Topics

Fundamentals of Planning and Budgeting

Different Budget Approaches

  • Zero-Based Budgeting
  • Top-Down
  • Bottom-Up
  • Rolling / Continuous
  • Flexible Budgets

Planning and Budgeting Cloud

  • Creating an Application
  • Setting up Access Permissions
  • Managing Applications
  • Editing Dimensions in the Simplified Dimension Editor
  • Designing Custom Navigation Flows
  • Designing Dashboards
  • Managing Sandboxes
  • Managing Jobs
  • Defining Valid Intersections
  • Defining Data Maps
  • Using the Member Selector
  • Managing Data Validation
  • Managing Application Settings
  • Managing Application Databases

EPM Automate Utility

Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud

  • Welcome to Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
  • Setting Up Your Application
  • Setting up Strategic Modelling
  • Familiarizing Yourself With Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
  • Configuring Workforce
  • Configuring Projects
  • Configuring Capital
  • Configuring Strategic Modelling

Calculation Manager

  • Overview of Calculation Manager
  • Designing Business Rules
  • Designing Business Rule Sets
  • Working with System Templates
  • Working with Custom Templates
  • Using Components to Design Business Rules and Templates
  • Using Aggregate Storage Components to Design Business Rules

 Interface and Navigation Flows

  • Creating Custom Navigation Flows
  • Dashboards and Infolets

Data Management (FDMEE)

  • Concepts
  • Import, Validate and Export
  • Data Management Setup

Designing Data Forms

  • Design Considerations
  • Smart Lists and Variables
  • Data Form Validation Rules
  • Creating Formulas

Data Entry Techniques

  • Basic Data Entry
  • Quick Data Entry Commands
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Comments and Attachments
  • Adjusting Values and Grid Spread
  • Supporting Detail
  • Formatting Data and Data Form Controls

Security and Managing Users

  • The EPBCS Security Model
  • Creating Users
  • Assigning Roles
  • Managing Groups
  • Valid Intersections

Smart View

  • Connection Types and Ribbons
  • Ad Hoc Analysis and Cascade
  • Data Forms and Smart Forms
  • Smart View Functions

Financial Reporting

  • Running and Creating Reports
  • Reports in PDF, HTML, XLXS, Word and Power point

Application Maintenance

  • Application Migration
  • Scheduling Jobs
  • Cloud Environment Updates

Exchange Rates and Translation

  • Managing Exchange Rates
  • Average Rate
  • Ending rate
  • Acquisition Rate/Local Rate
  • Rate Overrides/Amount overrides
  • Loading Exchange Rates

Member Formulas

  • Creating Member Formulas
  • Dynamically Calculated Members
  • Two-Pass Calculation