Resources

How Does Host Analytics Support a Performance Driven Culture with Better Decisions?

 

Replacing Excel with Host Budget for your Planning Process

Watch this demo for a deeper dive into how Host Budget replaces Excel with Host Budget and how the Host Control Panel allows you to control the workflow (preparation, approval, final approval) for hundreds of budget entities all with different budget templates.

 
 

Leveraging the Host Analytics Modeling Platform

This demo reviews the Host Analytics modeling platform it covers the components/challenges of modeling "what if" and reviews the modeling methods available through both Procedural/Rule Based Modeling and the Host Simulation Engine.

 

How to configure Host Consolidator to meet your requirements

This presentation reviews how Host Consolidator gives you unlimited flexibility to configure the system to fit your needs based on your requirements. It covers how the structure and OLAP hierarchy support the consolidation process by leveraging the aggregation and calculation functions, performing currency conversion and leveraging the accounting intelligence imbedded in the application. This presentation covers the configuration of the divisional structure and account segment hierarchies, how elimination journal entries are configured and the currency conversion process.

How Host Consolidator helps you with your monthly close

This presentation covers how you can configure Host Consolidator to fit your monthly close process. It reviews the process for both "Centralized" consolidations as well as "Decentralized" consolidations and how you can be somewhere in between. It reviews the processes for standard journal, recurring journal entries and elimination journal entries. It also covers how subsidiaries can integrate data from their general ledger and then supplement that information by manually entering statistical information or bringing the information in via Excel, a flat file or through database connectivity.



How to control the consolidation and planning processes

The presentation identifies how to manage the lethal combination of velocity and complexity found in most companies planning process and financial closing processes. This presentation covers how workflow processing is used to manage:

  • Budget/plan submissions so you always know where you stand in the planning process.
  • The tasks related to the monthly financial close across the entire organization.
  • The tasks and controls related to monthly journal entries (on-tops), recurring journal entries and dynamic journal entries.