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FastFactsFeature Presentation
February 17, 2011
We are using audio during this session, so please dial in to our conference line…
Phone number: 877-468-2134 Participant code: 182500
© 2011 The Johns Hopkins University. All rights reserved.
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Today’s TopicWe’ll be taking a look at…
The Month Comparison Trend Report in Business
Warehouse
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Today’s PresenterBob SicoliSAP Instructor
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Session Segments
PresentationBob will discuss The Month Comparison Trend report in Business WarehouseDuring Bob’s presentation, your phone will be muted.
Q&AAfter the presentation, we’ll hold a Q&A session. We’ll open up the phone lines, and you’ll be able to ask questions. Bob will answer as many of your questions as time allows.
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Today’s Topic
The Month Comparison Trend Report in Business
Warehouse
Note: This report is primarily used by Johns
Hopkins Health System employees.
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Agenda
What is the Monthly Comparison Trend report?How to access the report.What variables are needed to execute the report?What does the report display?How to modify the report to display all of the data.Other Business Warehouse basic functions to use for the report.
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What is The Monthly Comparison Trend Report?
History – The Monthly Comparison report compares your budget’s (cost centers) actual expenses against your budget for one month, the year to date, and the prior year.
This report provides a variance between the actual expenses and budgets.
The Monthly Comparison report restricts users to viewing just one month of data and has to be run multiple times, exported to excel, and then combined to get trends.
The Monthly Comparison Trend report is an enhancement to the Monthly Comparison report.
It compares your budget’s (cost centers) actual expenses against your budget for multiple months and the totals for the selected periods.
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How to Access the Report
The report is located in the Business Warehouse Report Library.
Go to Finance » Controlling » Monthly Comparison Trend
After clicking on the report, the variable screen will open to the right.
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This is the variable screen that defaults when you click on the report.
What variables are needed to execute the report?
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What variables are needed to execute the report?
The only required field in the Monthly Comparison Trend report is the Budget Version, which will default to the current one.However, there are many optional fields that can be populated to limit the data so the report is manageable.These fields are:
Cost Center – If you leave this field blank, it will look at the your current security to determine which data will be accessed. If you have access to many cost centers, it is advised to populate this field.Period – This field is a range representing the monthly periods in the fiscal year. Use any periods with numbers 1-12.Fiscal Year – This is the year to be viewed – ex. 2011.
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This is an example of the variable screen filled out to pull data for two cost centers and six periods. The Cost Element Hierarchy has been removed to access the raw data.
What variables are needed to execute the report?
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What does the report display?The report default view displays the cost center and cost elements (G/Ls).
The names of the cost centers have been removed but will display.
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The report also displays the months you selected and Actual, Budget, and Budget Variance for each month.
What does the report display?
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The far right the report also displays the totals for months you selected with Actual, Budget, and Budget Variance information. However, to see these totals, a modification must be made to display all of the columns.
What does the report display?
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How to Modify the Report to Display All of the Data
The report is showing that there are 43 rows, but only displays 20 rows. In order to display all the rows, click the No. of Rows button and select All.
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After that modification, you can now scroll down and view all the rows and the totals for the rows.
How to Modify the Report to Display All of the Data
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Another modification to the report is to display all of the columns. You can do this by clicking No. of Columns and selecting All.
How to Modify the Report to Display All of the Data
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After that modification, you can now scroll to the right and view all the columns and the totals for the columns.
How to Modify the Report to Display All of the Data
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Other Business Warehouse Basic Functions to Use for the Report
Printing the Data to an Excel Spreadsheet
1. Click the Printing button.2. Click Print to Excel.3. Either Open or Save the
spreadsheet.
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Other Business Warehouse Basic Functions to Use for the Report
Printing the Data to an Excel Spreadsheet
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Bookmarking the report as a Favorite
1. Click Bookmark. 2. Choose a folder if you have created folders.3. Change the Favorite Name by leaving the report name and adding text at the end.4. Click Save.
Other Business Warehouse Basic Functions to Use for the Report
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Bookmarking the Report as a Favorite
The next time you login into SAP and open the BW Report Center, the Favorite will appear in the Favorites folder.
Other Business Warehouse Basic Functions to Use for the Report
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Click the Favorite and the variable screen will open populated with the same information you used to create the report.
Other Business Warehouse Basic Functions to Use for the Report
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There is a Help section in the BW Reports Center that contains a searchable, indexed and alphabetized library of topics.
Click in the upper right hand corner of the BW Report Center to access the Help section.
Another window or tab will open.
Other Business Warehouse Basic Functions to Use for the Report
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ConclusionThe Monthly Comparison Trend report allows budget variance data to be reported for multiple months.The report is located in the Controlling folder directly under the Monthly Comparison report.In the variable screen, fill in the Period and Fiscal Year fields before executing the report.The report displays the actual expenses, budgets, and budget variances for multiple periods that you choose.You can modify the report to display all of the data.Use other BW basic functions such as Printing to Excel and Bookmarking to manage the reporting.
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We’re going to open the phone lines now!
There will be a slight pause, and then a recorded voice will provide instructions on how to ask questions over this conference call line.
We’ll be answering questions in the order that we receive them.
We’ll also be answering the questions that were emailed to us during the presentation.
If there’s a question that we can’t answer, we’ll do some research after this session, and then email the answer to all participants.
Q&A
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