The SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) application unifies and streamlines the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process and can enable a faster close. Finance-owned and maintained, the application unifies planning, financial consolidation and management reporting for the enterprise – improving budget cycle times, driving compliance with regulatory and financial standards, helping reduce external audit costs, instilling confidence, and reducing business risk.
Course Contents

What is SAP business planning and consolidation?
Architecture and terminology
Creating an application set
Creating dimensions and properties
Creating applications and applying dimensions
Loading and validating data
Working with BPC for Excel
Developing input schedules
BPC Comments
Book publication
Working with BPC Web
Content library
Live reporting
Working with BPC for word and BPC for PowerPoint
Security setup
Work status
Creating business process flows
Enabling BPC Audit
Creating input and report templates
Creating better/(worse) variances
Creating trend and multi-application reports
Conditional formatting
Creating expansions and drill downs
Working with the control panel
Filtering in reports
Workbook options
Custom suppression
Adding indentation reports
Advanced expansions
Hot analysis
Creating custom buttons
Creating dynamic range exchange reports and schedules
Budgeting system implementation overview
Seeding the budget
Defining modeling requirements
Defining and creating budget input templates
Creating and developing budgeting business process flows
Foreign currency translation
Inter-company eliminations
BPC journals
More emphasis on configuration end-user training provided by SAP
How to use macros in BPC reports
Custom menu with BPC macros
Introduction to BI/BW Architecture data modeling and reporting
Comparison of SAP BI to SAP BPC terminology and technology