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SAS Campus Drive
Cary, NC 27513-8617
United States
Toll-Free: 800-727-0025
Phone: 919-677-8000
Fax: 919-531-9445
Description:
SAS Financial Intelligence helps you report, manage and improve the financial performance of your entire organization. This integrated group of SAS offerings is unmatched in its ability to support your strategic decisions and help you: * Ensure financial transparency. * Streamline consolidation and reporting.
* Improve the accuracy of plans and budgets. * Predict and respond to market changes.
* Reduce costs and streamline processes. * Understand profit drivers and grow profitability.
* Ease the strain of compliance requirements. Unmatched depth and breadth SAS Financial Intelligence provides every essential capability for the finance department, all built on a single platform, so you can start with your most pressing need today and expand as your needs change. This group of offerings includes:
An integrated business intelligence platform. This platform provides dynamic, secure links to a centralized data repository and standardized metadata, meaning that all your applications will pull from the same accurate, up-to-date information. Built-in financial calculations also accomplish multicurrency conversions, inter-company eliminations, recurring adjustments, allocations and minority interests with ease. Integrated consolidation, budgeting and planning. With rolling forecasts, top-down and bottom-up budgeting, and budget-cycle seeding, you gain the flexibility to create more confident plans and more accurate budgets. Capabilities for workflow control and enterprise collaboration also ease communication and speed up planning cycles. On-demand consolidations ensure that you can create reports fast enough to meet regulatory deadlines.
Scorecards and dashboards. Communicate cause-and-effect relationships and ensure that your entire organization is aligned toward the same goals. SAS Financial Intelligence also lets you manage by exception through KPI alerts, analyze variances and identify trends. Predictive analytics including large-scale forecasting. With SAS, you can create more frequent and accurate forecasts to detect negative trends before they become major problems. Other advanced analytics, such as optimization, scheduling and simulation methods, use your financial information to provide reliable decision support. Cost management. With costs captured at the activity level, underlying causes and drivers of costs can be fully understood, providing a detailed picture of how corporate resources are used. Profitability management. Calculate profitability for customers, products and channels at the transactional level where costs are incurred.
Compliance and risk management. SAS helps you simplify financial data management and reporting to comply with various regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Our solutions support local and international accounting standards and reporting requirements such as GAAP, FASB, GASB and IFRS. Additionally, we help you track and document every financial process and control, analyze risks and material changes, and understand the impact of events like mergers and acquisitions.
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