• Business Questions
  • Overview
  • What is the trend of AP for last eight quarters?
  • How are my asset balances tracking across regions (COA) for last two years?
  • What are the CapEx requirements in the near future? Will PPE hold up, or will an early capital infusion be needed?
  • What is the working capital position and trend for past x quarters?
  • How is the debt equity mix structured at present, and is it actionable for improved financial gearing?
  • What is the trend of gross margins for past two years across business units?
  • What is the composition of fixed cost elements vs. variable cost elements for past two years?
  • What is the proportion of operating profits taken up by interest and financing costs?
  • What is the trend around operating and net margins for past two years?
  • How is the trend analysis for journals from subledger sources against manual GL journals, both in terms of amount and volume?
  • What is the pattern of bookings in tax sensitive GL accounts in comparison to revenue and cost?
  • What is the QoQ, YoY trend for accrual bookings due for reversal in the next accounting period?
  • What are the details of entries booked in GL for reclassification from expense to assets and vice versa?
  • What is the count and amount of invoices processed for the period by business units and trend comparison?
  • What are the invoice types processed by the AP department and the payment methods used to understand the downstream activities?
  • What is the validation, approval, and accounting status of invoices processed during the period?
  • What is the number of invoices paid vs. unpaid including partly paid with amount?
  • What is the analysis around payment terms by transaction type and transaction source for the invoices processed?
  • What is the count and amount of payments processed for the period by business units and trend comparison?
  • What is the ratio of on-time payment performance?
  • What is count and amount of overdue payments?
  • What is the average supplier payment days by business unit?
  • What are the interest penalties paid by amount and percentage?
  • What are the liabilities distribution details of AP Balances?
  • What is the accounting status of liability distributions by invoices?
  • What is the average time available to pay off outstanding AP invoices?
  • What is the count and value of AP invoices overdue?
  • What is the summary of AP invoices across aging buckets, count, and value?
  • What is the trend of outstanding AP Balances at the consolidated level, supplier level, and business unit level?
  • How are AP balances trending for a particular supplier over last eight quarters?
  • Which are the top 10 suppliers with the maximum AP outstanding?
  • Was the company able to meet the guided revenue growth for past quarters or years?
  • How is the actual performance vs. the budgeted performance of top balance sheet metrics for the last quarter or year?
  • What is the trend for profitability metrics actual vs. budget and direction of variance?
  • Is higher than anticipated OPEX a one-off case, or how is the trend for past eight quarters?
  • What is the split of budgeted receivables by entity or ledgers?
  • What is the budgeted revenue activity on a monthly or quarterly basis?
  • What is the target revenue for the next quarter in the best case and worst case scenarios?
  • What is the count and amount of AP invoices that have either header level hold, line level hold, or a combination?
  • What is the outstanding AP amount for AP invoices on holds?
  • What is the current AP amount out of outstanding AP amount for invoices on hold?
  • What is the overdue AP amount out of outstanding AP amount for invoices on hold?
  • What is the average number of days for invoices on hold and the trend for past six quarters?
  • What is the count and amount of AP invoices on hold due to distribution variances?
  • What is the count and amount of AP invoices on hold due to PO matching variances?
  • What is the count and amount of AP invoices on hold due to supplier site limits?
  • What is the split of invoices on hold by manual holds vs. system holds?
  • What is the summary of invoices (count and amount) by various hold reasons and holds by users?
  • What is the summary of invoices (count and amount) by various release reasons and released by user?
  • What is the amount of AP expenses by each business unit?
  • What is the trend of AP expenses for the past six quarters?
  • What is the distribution of AP expenses by the top 10 suppliers?
  • What is the distribution of AP expenses by the top five natural accounts or financial categories?
  • What is the distribution of AP expenses by each of the cost centers?
  • What is the count and amount of transactions processed over the period of time?
  • What is the classification of transactions processed during the period by transaction type and source?
  • What are the payment terms and receipt methods associated with the transactions?
  • What is the summary of transactions by statuses?
  • What is the count and amount of receipts processed over the period of time?
  • What is the count and amount of applied receipts?
  • What is the count and amount of unapplied receipts?
  • What is the trend for average receipt days?
  • What is the analysis of due and overdue receipts?
  • What is the amount of discount taken vs lost?
  • What is the count and amount of credit memo applications during the period?
  • What is the analysis of credit memo applications by business unit, time period, customers, GL accounts, and so on?
  • What is the status of CM application transactions?
  • What is the count and amount of AR adjustments processed during the period?
  • What is the analysis of AR adjustments by business unit, time period, customers, GL accounts, and so on?
  • What is the ratio of AR adjustments applications to invoice percentage?
  • What is the status of AR adjustments?
  • What is the count and value of AR invoices overdue?
  • What is the count and value of AR invoices current?
  • What is the summary of AR invoices across aging buckets, count and value?
  • What is the summary of AR invoices overdue with respect to their aging buckets and payment terms?
  • What is the trend of outstanding AR Balances by customer or business unit?
  • What is the AR account activity for the period and balance amount by business unit?
  • How are AR balances trending for a particular customer over the last eight quarters?
  • Which are the top 10 customers with maximum AR outstanding?
  • What is the trend for operating revenue for past six quarters by ledger, legal entity, billing BU, etc?
  • What is the revenue mix by geography, business units, product lines, SKU, key customers, transaction source, and transaction type?
  • What is the distribution of revenue by the top 10 customer accounts?
  • What is the contribution of non-operating revenue and the trend for past quarters?
  • What is the distribution of revenue by top five revenue accounts?
  • What is the amount of deferred revenue further classified by long term and short term deferred revenue?
  • What is the revenue recognition for the fiscal period in comparison to billings in prior periods (bill in advance) or billing in future (bill in arrears)?
  • What is the breakdown of inter-company revenue vs. external revenue based on AR transaction type and transaction source?
  • What is the revenue mix from services, subscription fees, material installation, merchant fees, sale of goods, etc.?
  • What is the summary as well as the detailed analysis of revenue vs. billed amount (including taxes) in transaction currency, ledger currency, and analytics currency?
  • How do I reconcile GL balances/journals and all contributing subledger transactions including manual journals in GL with post-SLA accounting details in a single consolidate report?
  • How do I analyze GL balances/journals with the ability to get the extended details of subledger transaction attributes and accounting events?
  • How do I get a consolidated abstract view of GL account activity for a period and associated subledger transaction activity?
  • How do I facilitate intuitive drill-to details for GL balances, journals, or subledger transactions for detailed analyses with a minimum number of clicks?
  • How do I support account analyses across multi-period and multi-ledger at detailed or roll-up account levels across chart of account segments?
  • How do I monitor GL accounts with respect to accounting and posting activity for all the contributing transactions during an accounting period?
  • How much did the organization spend with suppliers, commodities, buyers, cost center, contracts vs. non contracts, leakage etc.?
  • Identify items and categories with cost-saving potential in procurement operations based on prices.
  • Identify the key areas for improving process efficiencies.
  • Identify items, categories, and suppliers with compliance issues in their purchase agreements.
  • What is the employee expense spend by business units?
  • What are the top expense reports which are paid?
  • What are the total expenses by number of expense reports for employee, manager, organization, and cost centers?
  • What is the total expense trend for last few quarters?
  • Which are top cost centers by employee expenses?
  • What is the expense breakdown by expense type?
  • What is the number of expenses which are filed late?
  • Who are the top managers by expenses?
  • Which are the top cost centers and organizations with audit violations for expense reports which are paid?
  • What is the percentage of reports which are auto-approved?
  • What is the trend in credit vs. cash expenses?
  • What are the cycle times for report submission, filing, and approvals?
  • What commodities and services have been purchased, and in what volume and price?
  • How are purchases distributed across suppliers?
  • Is the company using strategic suppliers and contracts effectively?
  • What are my purchase volumes across business units?
  • What is my contract vs. off-contract spend?
  • What are the cycle times in terms of PR and PO approval, and PR to PO conversion?
  • How many times are we amending purchase orders, and are the amendment initiations internal or external?
  • How many approvers on average are approving purchase orders?
  • What are my lead time standards and variances in purchase cycles?
  • What are the purchase order creation sources and corresponding requisition sources?
  • When were products shipped and what are the average delivery times?
  • Which suppliers deliver consistently on time?
  • What are the accepted and rejected rates for commodities, and by suppliers?
  • What are the return rates for suppliers?
  • What receipts are created manually or through ASNs?
  • What are my processing and post-processing lead time standards and variances for an item?
  • What are the products and services for which we have agreements?
  • What are the agreement utilization rates?
  • Which agreements are under-utilized?
  • Which agreements are utilized before expiry?
  • What are the creation sources for agreements?
  • What are my cycle times for agreement approvals?
  • What are my negotiation-to-agreement approval cycle times?
  • How many times are we amending agreements, and are the amendment initiations internal or external?
  • How many approvers on a average are approving agreements?
  • How long does it take for purchase requisitions to get approved?
  • What is the centralized view of all procurement requests for the purchasing department?
  • What are the classifications of purchase requisitions by status, type, and source created for a period, and what are the associated purchase order details?
  • How many non-catalog purchase requisitions are created by volume, item, and amount?
  • What is the actual cost by project and task?
  • What is the actual cost by project type?
  • What is the actual cost by project organization?
  • What is the actual cost by GL account for a specific period?
  • What are the expenditures that contributed to the actual costs?
  • What are the costs by expenditure type and category?
  • What percentage of costs have been capitalized?
  • What percentage of cost have been billed?
  • What is the actual cost by project class code?
  • What are the ITD, YTD and PTD actual costs?
  • What is the labor cost and effort breakup by employee and job?
  • What is the trend of cost?
  • What is the total project cost by project organization, project type, expenditure type, expenditure category, and expenditure organization?
  • What is the trend of project cost by organization, project type, etc.?
  • What is the overall net book value for PP&E assets and trend over multiple periods by entity, asset book, etc.?
  • What are the period active asset unit details for particular asset categories and trend details?
  • What is period active asset mix across various asset categories?
  • What is the asset mix across the various asset types CIP, capitalized, and expensed?
  • What are the period-wise last active asset employee assignment details?
  • What is the summary of assets by original cost, salvage value, net book value by entity, category, time historic, etc.?
  • What is the average life of asset by asset category?
  • What is the summary of assets which have exceeded economic life or near end of life?
  • How do I track asset book health and what is lifecycle tracking with historic data?
  • What is the summary of asset additions/ CapEx for a particular entity, asset book, and asset category?
  • What are the source document details for asset additions?
  • What is the trend of asset retirement over a period of time in terms of cost retired or NBV retired?
  • What are the details of assets retired by various asset categories?
  • What is the average cost of removal per unit for retired assets?
  • What is the amount of assets revalued during past 6 quarters?
  • What is the amount and quantity of assets reclassified during the period?
  • What is the amount and quantity of assets adjusted by transaction type and GL accounts and segments?
  • What is the total commitment cost by project?
  • What are the outstanding requisitions, purchase orders, and supplier invoices by project that still have commitment costs?
  • What are the forecasted raw and burdened costs for projects?
  • What are the changes in quantity and amounts from my original forecast?
  • What is the forecasted revenue for the project?
  • What is the original and current margin of forecast on the project?
  • What is the cost variance from approved forecast by project, task, and resources?
  • What is the labor forecast for projects across the project organizations?
  • What is the EAC cost and revenue of the project?
  • What is the ETC cost and revenue for the project?
  • What is forecasted revenue by business unit and project organization?
  • What is the forecasted revenue by customer?
  • What is the split of forecasted cost and revenue by project, task, and resources?
  • What is the budgeted raw and burdened cost for the project?
  • What are the changes in budgeted quantity and amounts from my original budget?
  • What is the budgeted revenue for the project?
  • What is the original and current margin of budget on the project?
  • What is the cost variance from approved budget by project, task, and resources?
  • Which project organizations have overrun their budgets in the last quarter periods?
  • What is the planned labor budget for projects across the project organizations?
  • What is the budgeted revenue by business unit and project organizations?
  • What is the budgeted revenue by customer?
  • What is the split of budgeted cost and revenue by project, task, and resources?
  • Which contracts and customers are funding the project?
  • How much of the contract amount isn't allocated?
  • How much of the project contract amount has been invoiced?
  • How much revenue has been recognized for the project contract?
  • What is the contract amount for external, intercompany, and interproject contract types?
  • What is the actual revenue by contract, project, and task?
  • What is the actual revenue by contractorganization?
  • What is the actual revenue by event type and revenue category?
  • What is the actual revenue by GL account for a specific period?
  • What is the trend of revenue?
  • What is my project margin?
  • What is the intercompany revenue, and interproject revenue by provider and receiver?
  • What is the billing amount by contract, project, and task?
  • What is the intercompany, interproject invoice amount by provider and receiver?
  • What is the write-off, cancellation, and concession invoice amounts?
  • Who are the top 10 contract customers by invoice amount?

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