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ORACLE HYPERION CAPITAL ASSET PLANNING

Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning gives you a framework to automate your capital asset planning process while bridging the gap between finance and operations. With Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning your capital asset plans are an integral part of Oracle Hyperion Planning, allowing you to accurately assess the impact of capital decisions on overall expense plans.
Make Accurate and Predictable Forecasts To stay competitive, your organization must have accurate and predictable forecasts. And thats a challenge when 75 percent of companies still use spreadsheets for planning, forecasting, and budgeting, especially when it comes to details such as capital assets and capital asset related expenses. Why not eliminate this manual and cumbersome spreadsheet processone that can easily be tampered with? With Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning you can improve your plan accuracy, predictability, and accountability; encourage collaborative planning efforts; and automate your planning process. Simplify Implementation and Reduce Maintenance Burdens In looking for an alternative to spreadsheets, companies often develop a customized application to address capital asset planning needs. But custom applications require time to develop, test, and implement; and ongoing updates and enhancementsall of which burden your internal IT department. With Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning you can eliminate the expense, extra time, and IT resources needed to develop and support a custom application. Instead, you can begin planning quickly, saving money and IT efforts. Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning gives you a framework to begin your capital asset planning process so you dont start from square one. Its built-in functionality includes account structures, calculations, Smart Lists, data forms, dimensions, and menus. Without it, you would have to simulate this functionality with costly and time consuming customization efforts. Address All Planning Requirements with Customization Capabilities Although Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning provides the most commonly used capital asset planning functionality, some of your requirements might vary from those included. Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning lets you easily modify the application and the architecture to meet business requirements, so you dont have to modify processes to adjust to the software. The option to leverage out-of-the-box functionality, slightly modify the application,

prebuilt functionality incorporating best practices

and capabilities
Real-time calculation and

consolidation of capital asset and capital asset related expenses

KEY BENEFITS:
Simplify implementation

processes and reduce maintenance requirements

easily
Assess the immediate impact

of capital asset decisions on financial statements

predictability, and accountability by involving operational level planners

using a comprehensive planning solution

calculations, and global settings

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or completely change it gives you the flexibility to use the application as you need. Manage Expenses with Prebuilt Functionality and Best Practices Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning allows you to easily plan for the addition of new tangible and intangible capital assets. You can also modify existing capital assets with improvements, impairments, and retirements, as well as transfer capital assets from one cost center to another using multiple methods. Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning automatically tracks related expenses such as the costs of maintenance, repair, and insurance. You can automatically calculate depreciation by selecting predefined depreciation methods and useful life based on asset type. In addition, you can incorporate actual capital asset data from your fixed asset system into Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning to combine existing capital asset information with budgeted and forecast capital asset information for a complete plan. Assess the Financial Impact of Capital Asset Expenses in Real Time Scrutinizing capital asset decisions is understandable; they are some of your largest operating expenses and can be a huge investment for an organization. With Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning, you can assess the impact of a capital asset purchase on the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. With the composite grid feature, you can see the impact of these changes on your financial statements all on a single screen. And because Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning is an integral part of Oracle Hyperion Planning, the impact of capital expenses on general expense plans can be visualized in real time, so you can take immediate action when necessary.

See the immediate impact of capital asset plan modifications on your general expense plans and financial statements in a single view with the composite grid feature.

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Leverage Existing User Competencies with Microsoft Office Integration Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning enables your business users to easily view plans and reports on the web or in Microsoft Office and does not require users to have specialized computer skills. A standard web form in workforce planning allows a user to interact with plans. Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning offers comprehensive integration with Microsoft Office tools such as Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Users can access their planning tasks and due dates within Microsoft Outlook task list and calendar as well as within Microsoft Excel. Users can also view planning data forms from within Microsoft Excel without any loss in functionality relative to the web based interface. Both interfaces also support ad hoc analysis of data where rows, column and page dimensions can be pivoted differently to create different views of the same data. Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning lets you take your plans offline, and at your own convenience, change assumptions, perform calculations, analyze results, and connect back to the central database to synchronize your updates. Additionally, you can directly integrate data from Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning into Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word. This allows you to quickly create highly customized reports with accurate information and automatically refresh the report when the underlying data changes. The end result: reduced manual intervention, improved data integrity, and increased reporting accuracy. Improve Plan Accuracy, Predictability, and Accountability Achieve greater plan accuracy through prebuilt functionality and best practices that are standard with Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning. Plan accuracy is also improved with dependable security that lets you maintain access rights for data, calculations, and global settings. You can easily distribute plans to decision makers at the operational level without concern that the data and calculations will be incorrectly used. And by involving the operational level in the planning process, you obtain first hand input from areas actually incurring the capital expenses for more predictableas well as more accurateplans. All of this means you can centralize your capital asset planning activities, empower decision-makers at all levels, and hold them accountable for their plans. Automate the Planning Process Companies need to eliminate manual steps within the planning process, especially when those steps involve collecting spreadsheet templates, consolidating them, and integrating them with general expense plans. With Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning no consolidation or integration is required because the application does it all for you. Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning and the core Oracle Hyperion Planning application are fully integrated, and together they offer a comprehensive planning solution that satisfies detailed capital asset and general expense plans. This integration provides an automatic feed to the budgeting and forecasting system you use for your general asset plans. All changes you make to Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning can be immediately reflected in the core Oracle Hyperion

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Planning application. Eliminating manual and redundant steps also reduces your planning cycle time and ultimately allows financial analysts more time to focus on true strategic analysis. Gain Dependable Security over Data, Calculations, and Global Settings With Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning, you can control the view and modification access for individual planners. For example, you might want planners to have access only to the cost centers for which they are responsible. You can also safely limit modification access so that only the appropriate planners can add, delete, retire, or transfer capital assets to avoid budget misappropriation. Contact Us For more information about how your organization can leverage the power of Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning, please visit [Link] or call +1.800.ORACLE1 to speak to an Oracle representative.

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