2. Agenda
• Introductions
• Company Background
• Project Background and Details
• Challenges and Opportunities
• Maximizing Value
• Future Plans
• Questions
• Contact Information
3. Introductions
• Speaker - Susan Moore
– Accounting manager with Southwest Securities,
responsible for the company’s BPC solution in terms
of implementation, training, and support for the
finance community
– Managed the original implementation of SAP BPC
(Everest at the time) in 2004, and has helped it
develop into a sophisticated solution that is now
widely used outside of purely reporting
5. Company Background
• Securities Industry
• Revenues: $422 Million (FY 2010)
• Employees: 800+
• Locations: 20+ branch offices; several hundred
correspondents
• Operating in four business segments – Retail
Brokerage, Institutional Brokerage, Clearing Firm for
Securities transactions and Banking
6. Project Background
• Challenges and Opportunities
– Management Reporting was manual and inflexible and
required several hours in MS Excel
– Re-key data from several sources to MS Excel for reports
– Budgeting done manually through emailing of Excel sheets
and manual entry of data to financial system
– Forecasting done manually at a high level
– Not a lot of time for data analysis
– Management received new reports once a year
7. Project Background
• Benefits
– Single source for data that feeds management reports
– User community → all levels (Executives to Admins)
– Drill through financial information at all levels
– Spending more time analyzing the data and explaining
variances rather then just getting the reports out
– Providing more reports → key reports are done monthly
instead of quarterly
– Accuracy increased → “BPC is Right”
8. Project Details
• Current State
– 2 Application Sets (SWST & SWSBANK)
– 3 Applications (Financials, Historical, Daily → SWST)
– 2 Applications (Reporting and Loan → SWSBANK)
– Customized Measures (AVG_QTD, AVG_YTD, Rolling_12)
– Customized DTS packages (On Demand data loads)
– Alternate time hierarchies
– 60 concurrent users
– 100 + Reports and Templates
9. Project Details
• Why Column5?
– Knowledge and experience in SAP BPC
– Knowledge of the Financial Services Industry
– Customer Value Oriented Company
10. Maximizing Value
• Budgeting and Forecasting
– Users input quarterly forecast numbers and annual budget numbers
– Leverages multiple categories to provide projected financial information for Earnings Calls
– An example report (data modified) → Projected = Actuals + Forecast + Reforecast
11. Maximizing Value
• Tax Reporting
– Custom reports have been created leveraging an alternate hierarchy that can show up-to-
date tax numbers for both Federal and State Tax returns
12. Maximizing Value
• Surveys
– Custom built reports and use of calculated fields have streamlined CFO surveys and any
business-related surveys
13. Maximizing Value
• ePublish
– Custom built monthly reports are generated using ePublish and leverages Printer schedule
option to directly print reports to selected printer
14. Maximizing Value
• ePublish
– Report leverages MS Excel conditional formatting to highlight line items that require review
and explanation (tolerances are dynamically calculated based on BPC data)
• I.E. If Threshold is > 5000, then we use 5000 or we use the calculated value
AND(ABS(U87)>$L$27,AND(G87="EXP",AND(F87="N",ABS(T87)>ABS($L$30))))
15. Maximizing Value
• Reconciliation
– Fixed Asset balances are loaded to statistical fields so a reconciliation can be done through
BPC
– I.E. Account 160100 reconciles to FA_160100
16. Maximizing Value
• Loan Reporting
– Produce a “trial balance” of Loan activity that allows for tracking of status, maturity, and loan
to value
17. Maximizing Value
• Quarterly Board Reporting
– Specially pre-formatted templates that allow for instant creation of board reports
18. Maximizing Value
• Dimension Automation
– Column5 dimension automation leveraged to dynamically build Loan Number and Customer
dimensions within the Loan Reporting Application
