Archive for October, 2009
The Oracle FSG Nightmare
Posted by andrew.deeley in EBS, FSG on October 29, 2009
Oracle’s Financial Statement Generator (FSG) is a built-in report writer for EBS, which is used to produce financial statements (or otherwise known as FSGs). It’s often described as cumbersome, clunky and is difficult for end-users to build and edit existing reports. FSGs are comprised of a number of components which are integrated to produce a [...]
Business Optimization … A Brave New World
Posted by andrew.deeley in Business Intelligence on October 15, 2009
Since their inception, ERP systems have struggled to provide accounting and finance departments with user-friendly inquiry and reporting tools. Most report writers are difficult to use, require development skills, are slow to run and don’t provide drill-down to the underlying transactional data for further analysis. What’s more, by the time you have designed, created and [...]
Resolving a Life of Frustration as a Corporate Controller
Posted by Phil Walton in JD Edwards on October 11, 2009
Do you get those jokes about being in the bookkeeping department? Is it a Herculean effort for you to produce the monthly accounts (only to feel foolish that you have to field questions that you could have answered proactively with more time to interpret the numbers)? Why is it only the finance department that seems [...]