FINANCE

FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION

Financial consolidation can be challenging—riddled with complexities across multiple legal entities, account structures, intercompany eliminations, currency translations, and disparate and changing regulatory requirements. With Anaplan, you can speed intercompany financial reconciliations and period end–close with a single platform that connects across your budgeting, planning, and forecasting process, all while complying with IFRS and GAAP standards.

Speed consolidation and close. Automate every KEY BENEFITS phase of financial consolidation, from data import to adjustments and eliminations, and from currency and • Streamline consolidation elements—intercompany cumulative translation adjustment (CTA) to reporting— reconciliation, multi-currency, consolidated financial all on a single, connected platform that speeds the close reporting, eliminations, consolidations, and journal and increases confidence in the results. methods—with one system Aviva, a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, provides insurance and • Simplify processes with built-in, peer-to-peer Report with confidence. Be confident in your financial investment products to 30 million customers in 16 intercompany matching consolidation results, thanks to comprehensive countries across the globe. functionalities across consolidation controls, • Automate consolidation of financial statements with Benefits workflow, audit trail, and security—all of which ensure rule-based processing • A centralized planning and consolidation source consolidation data quality and accuracy from beginning across all business units ensures continued • Speed configuration of core dimensions, including to end. financial control and a speedy aggregation of currencies, intercompany transactions, and methods group view Enhance collaboration. Improve collaboration • More easily manage multi-entity and multi-account • Two-month implementation from design to between financial planning and financial consolidation structures with drag-and-drop—no coding needed go-live, and rapid scale-up to 180 users teams. Break down rigid processes and empower enterprise-wide local subsidiaries to close using local processes and • Gain critical forward visibility to management, procedure, all while maintaining corporate controls. with connection across plan, budget, forecast, • Time required to consolidate plan numbers Reconcile statutory and management consolidations consolidation, M&A simulations, and currency reduced from one week to one day with one flexible, connected, and collaborative system. evolutions on consolidated results FINANCE

Data import, modeling, and initialization Reporting and analysis Key Features • Automated import and mapping functionalities • Pre-built financial statements: balance sheet, income • Pre-built, easily configurable chart of accounts with statement, cash flow, change in equity Complete financial consolidation solution account rollup to financial statement totals • Audit reports for analysis and validation at consolidated level for currency translation, journal adjustments, and • A unified single cloud solution across planning, budgeting, • Pre-built list of movements and assignments to balance consistency of data and financial consolidation sheet accounts • Analysis reports with drill-down from consolidated results • Includes all standard consolidation entries—intercompany Data collection to contribution by entity or audit IDs eliminations, goodwill recognition, investments • Data-collection status dashboard tracks level of elimination, consolidated reserves completion entity by entity Currency translation and CTA • The real-time data platform instantly updates status of • Pre-built entry forms to load trial balance data, • Centrally managed exchange rates and automatic the consolidation—no batch wait times intercompany amounts, and input movement flows in calculation of exchange rate differences • User-owned controls, audit trail, and workflow the balance sheet • Convert different balances at different rates: opening balance, movement, end balance, spot • Pre-configured data model, data entry forms, controls, • Pre-configured controls and controls reports business rules, and consolidation reports • Convert financial statements submitted in local currency Intercompany reconciliation to group/functional/reporting currency Multiple entities, standards, and versions • Peer-to-peer intercompany elimination and reconciliation: • Automate cumulative translation adjustment (CTA) balance and transactional levels • Supports multiple entity, account structures, consolidation calculation in consolidated reserves. versions, and currencies • Reconcile intercompany amounts in group currency and functional currency of the entity Audit trail • Manages and reconciles IFRS, U.S. GAAP, and any • Audit trail of corrected data journal adjustments other GAAP Consolidation and journals • History report of data edits: what, when, who Rule-based automation • Local or group-level journal adjustment capabilities Data integration • Rule-based consolidation process automates recurring • Consolidate at multiple organizational levels in a simple consolidation entries consolidation run • Connect with any upstream system to bring in and push back consolidation data • Ability to manage balance sheet movements, automating • Manage full integration, joint venture, partial ownership, calculation of consolidated cash flow and equity accounting methods • One common Anaplan platform for integration with apps • Goodwill calculation based on investment register and processes across the business Collaboration and workflow • Entity valuations based on consolidated data Microsoft Office® integration • Allows local subsidiaries to speed close process following • Group consolidation status dashboard to monitor the • Integration with Microsoft Office Excel®, Word®, and geo-specific controls and procedures overall consolidation process for each entity PowerPoint®—share financial consolidation results via • Track and collaborate across all stages of consolidation • Unlimited consolidation processes and reporting— workbook, slides, or board book documents and close with workflow and alerts statutory, management, regional, tax

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