Cognos Finance 7.4 Authoring
Currently, no providers in North America have scheduled a date for this course. We can schedule a class at one of our regional offices or on-site at your location.
- Vendor:
- IBM Corporation
- Course:
- P4402
- Start Date:
- Unscheduled
- Length:
- 2 Days
- Location:
- Expired Class Date
- Tuition:
- $1,400
No Dates
Scheduled
Course Description
Cognos Finance 7.4 Authoring is a two-day, instructor-led course designed to teach report authors how to create and distribute reports and forms. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises, you will learn essential data input techniques that can be used to create budgets and forecasts in Cognos Finance Windows, Web and Excel interfaces. It is assumed that you have no experience with Cognos Finance or multidimensional reporting and analysis, but are familiar with the financial data and reporting needs of their organization.
Skills Gained
- Create reports and forms in Cognos Finance
- Enter data in Windows, the Web and Excel
- Enhance reports and input forms to meet business requirements
- Analyze consolidated data
- Distribute reports and input forms throughout the enterprise
- Extrapolate data for future planning
- Monitor the budgeting process for multiple users (Optional)
- Create journal entry reports and enter adjustments (Optional)
- Integrate with Cognos Planning and Cognos 8 (Optional)
- Create sophisticated reports, such as a 12-month rolling-period report (Optional)
Who Can Benefit
This intermediate course is intended for report authors.
Prerequisites
You should have:
- Knowledge of the organization's general ledger system and financial data sources
- Knowledge of the organization's requirements for financial reporting
