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Finance Reporting & Analysis

Companies rely on business intelligence to provide visibility into the full scope of their business and financial operations. As corporate financial data faces greater scrutiny, finance and accounting departments must make detailed information more quickly and widely available. Business intelligence uniquely provides efficient transparency, analysis and delivery of corporate financial data.

Finance and accounting departments across every industry are increasingly leveraging business intelligence to analyze sources of revenue and cost, view data underlying the statement of cash flows and compare planned and actual revenue and expenses. Companies must satisfy public accounting requirements for government organizations and shareholders, as well as deliver financial data to financial analysts, business unit management, executives and directors.

Finance Reporting & Analysis Areas
Balance Sheet Reporting & Analysis Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable Reporting & Analysis
Profit & Loss/Income Statement Analysis Financial Budgeting & Forecasting
Cash Flow Analysis Risk Management

MicroStrategy’s Financial Reporting Analysis Module provides the power, scalability and sophistication to analyze summary and detail level financial data.

Achieving Financial Transparency

Can your financial reporting stand up to the new requirements imposed by the Sarbanes - Oxley Act -- higher penalties, higher risks, greater precision -- with much less time to accomplish it?

Studies have shown that over 60% of CFO's believe that their existing financial applications are inadequate. These applications are fine for recording accounting transactions, budgeting and planning; however, they lack the ability to deliver comprehensive, live, transaction-level financial reporting with automatic fraud detection and proactive alerting.

MicroStrategy's technology has helped its customers achieve full transparency into their financial data. The MicroStrategy platform is optimized to help companies deploy flexible reporting, free-form investigation and automatic anomaly detection allowing businesses to file statutory reports with the utmost confidence, precision and accuracy.

MicroStrategy delivers five best practices for financial transparency:

Extensive Data Gathering Environment for standardization of data and library of reports
Broad Data Visibility Deployment to hundreds and thousands of users with full security
Vigilant Fraud Detection Automatic fraud detection through scouring of database
Material Spotlight Timely and thorough identification of material elements
Live
Reports
Drilling across time for trending and down to transaction detail for complete analysis

Business Benefits

With MicroStrategy, your business can:

  • support a consolidated view of financial data coming from multiple ERPs, spreadsheets and other planning systems;
  • deliver statutory GAAP-compliant reports replacing manual consolidations;
  • investigate financial data more thoroughly by drilling down to transaction-level detail from high-level reports;
  • provide hundreds and thousands of authorized users with the highest levels of data security;
  • automatically detect anomalies and variances in the financial data; and
  • proactively deliver important information to the authorities.

MicroStrategy, a global leader in business intelligence technology, provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations make better business decisions every day. Find out more about us.

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