IBM Cognos Controller: Develop Applications (v10.2/v10.3)

Course Outline

Create companies, consolidation types, and account structures
Create and organize forms for entering data into the Controller application
Generate movement accounts to show changes to data over time
Create extended dimensions to enhance data analysis
Link structures to customize end users- access to Controller data
Define and schedule the data entry process
Test the Controller application setup
Adjust data through journal entries
Translate foreign currencies
Enable automatically created journal entries
Allocate values
Reconcile and eliminate intercompany transactions
Work with shareholdings and investments in group companies
Calculate and eliminate acquisition values
Consolidate a group- s reported values
Define security restrictions to different parts of the application
Eliminate intercompany profit
Create complex stored calculations
Customize the consolidation process using user-defined business rules (UDBRs)
Create ad hoc reports to quickly analyze and compare figures
Run standard reports to verify and analyze data for consolidation
Create custom reports using the Report Generator
Create, modify, and run reports in Excel using the Excel Link
Run multiple reports simultaneously by grouping reports into report books
Identify different consolidation models (Optional)