This document discusses the challenges of management reporting and potential solutions. It identifies key challenges such as availability, structure, volume, accessibility, time to prepare, accuracy, quality, exportability, and costs. It then provides more details on each challenge and considerations for solutions like real-time, user-controlled reporting that follows best practices and allows for automated preparation close to the final format.

1. Management Reporting
The challenges & solutions

2. Challenges & Considerations
 Availability  Time to prepare
 Structure  Accuracy
(Oper/Mngmt/Stat)  Quality
 Companies
 Accounts  Exportability
 Data classes  Costs
 Volume
 Accessibility
 Preparation
process

3. Availability
 Real time
 Under user control
 Needs focused

4. Structure: (Operational
Management – Statutory)
 Company relationships
 Account layers
 Data classes
 Actuals
 13 Month
 Consolidations
 Branches
 JV
 Equity

5. Volume
Transactional vs. Consolidated
Transparent Process

6. Accessibility

7. Preparation Process
 Flexible
 User controlled
 Automated
 Best practice

8. Time to Prepare
 User controlled
 Close as possible
to final format

9. Accuracy
 Separate from operational
system
 Undo-Redo

10. Quality
 User controlled
 Desktop printing

11. Exportability

12. Costs

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