PC300e - BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management: Transactional ABC

Goals

• Business ObjectsTM Profitability and Cost Management enables you to design multi-dimensional models that can be used in a wide variety of situations.
• This five hour eLearning course focuses on the use of the application for transactional costing purposes and is designed to provide you with an introduction to creating transactional costing models.
• In this course, you will learn about the types of data needed for a transactional costing model, changes to dimensions for transactional costing, and transferring data into a model.
• The business benefit of this course is that you will be able to design and build a transactional costing model and fully understand the associated processes.

Audience

• This course is designed for individuals who are familiar with the use of BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management and require more information about the use of the application for transactional costing purposes.

Prerequisites

• * Prerequisite Education (To be successful, you should have completed the following offering:)
• BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management: Fundamentals in Model Building * Prerequisite Knowledge/Experience (To be successful, you must have a working knowledge of:)
• BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management

Content

• Introducing transactional costing
• • Describe the differences between transactional and standard activity based costing
  • Give examples of the key verticals that may use transactional costing
  • Compare the use of relational and multidimensional systems
• Implementing transactional costing
• • Describe the roles and responsibilities of those involved in a transactional costing implementation
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the calculation process within transactional costing models
  • List the inputs and outputs associated with a transactional costing model
• Modelling for transactional costs
• • State the purpose of the Detailed Cost Object dimensions
  • Describe the process of linking items within the Detailed Cost Objects and Cost Object dimensions
  • List the limitations that apply when using transactional costing models
• Loading data
• • State the stages associated with populating the load tables
  • Name the two approaches that can be used when loading Activity Driver volumes
• Calculating results
• • Describe the console commands that are needed to carry out a calculation
  • List the results tables and their contents

Notes

• Course length: 5 hours
• Additional Education (Additional education offerings we recommend include:)
• • BusinessObjects Activity Analysis: Advanced topics in Model Building
  • BusinessObjects Objectives Management: Using Profitability for performance management
• Applicable Certification
• • Not applicable for this offering.

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