For utility companies on SAP, HPC America’s Utility Financials Accelerator delivers the data required by regulators faster and more accurately.

Utility companies today face stringent compliance requirements and transparency in their accounting and regulatory reporting. To help meet these challenges, HPC America's Utility Financials Accelerator (UFA) delivers sophisticated yet intuitive functionality that benefits all stakeholders from executive management to field operations, in organizations from 300 to 30,000 employees. HPC UFA is certified by SAP as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform.

Executive ManagementUtility Financials Accelerator addresses all of the compliance issues that keep executives up at night. It gives CEOs the confidence to sign-off on quarterly and annual financial statements, and provides CFOs with the fully supported numbers they want—and regulators require—for audit purposes.

UFA also helps with rate case support, by making all costs transparent and easily traceable. You'll not only reduce the risk of fines and loan covenant recalls, but also streamline the process of securing approval from federal regulators and local government representatives.

Finance/Accounting ManagementUtility Financials Accelerator eliminates all of the manual work you currently undertake to get your data in the required regulatory formats. Once it's installed, you'll be able to assess costs in a regulatory view and answer management's questions quickly. With greater time for analysis, you'll be better able to make solid recommendations and assist management in making smarter business decisions.

IT Imagine an SAP reporting infrastructure that doesn't require you to modify database tables and answer frantic calls from Finance on a regular basis. Utility Financials Accelerator delivers seamless integration with SAP’s IS-U/FERC using native ABAP. It’s built on the SAP NetWeaver stack, loaded onto your development client (DEV), and transported to quality assurance (QAS) and production (PRD) using routine change management processes by your Basis team. You'll be able to continue using SAP as you do today, and Finance will gain greater independence with zero risk to the organization's data.

Operations UFA keeps field staff focused on service calls while also helping Engineering Supervisors and Field Planners to meet Accounting’s needs. It enables staff to submit work orders in their language, which are then mapped automatically to the proper accounting and regulatory terminology. Once we configure it with your team, you’ll be able to concentrate on delivering great customer service with fewer administrative hassles.

Key Benefits of HPC UFA

• Certified by SAP as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, thereby increasing the efficiency and accuracy of reporting processes from within SAP.

• Facilitates a more accurate trace each month by vastly reducing trace errors.

• Enables a faster month-end closing cycle. • Provides real-time access to earnings and other critical data, in both financial and regulatory views. • Decreases the risk of FERC, RUS, NARUC and other regulatory agency audit failures and fines.

• Streamlines and automates natural account translation with powerful table maintenance ABAPs.

• Allows you to easily reallocate costs (post CO allocations) while maintaining compliance through financial, accounting, and regulator views.

• Delivers a cost effective way to comply with regulators without adding accounting or IT staff. • Enables current staff to work more efficiently by reducing or eliminating manual work and homegrown solutions in Microsoft Excel.

• Leverages the SAP infrastructure and training in which you’ve already

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Trace Assurance ensures that you have an error-free trace every month. It uses our failsafe method to account for every dollar in the regulatory range, even for sending cost centers that don’t charge out any time. Trace Assurance delivers best-in-class closing timelines and makes our clients the envy of other SAP-based utility companies.

Common Cost Allocator provides a post-controlling (CO) module set to accommodate common allocation of administrative and general expenses, supervision and engineering expenses, and customer accounts expenses. Each utility segment can be allocated common regulatory accounts in any percentage for any regulatory account.

Regulatory Budgets offers an alternative to the IS-U/FERC method of budgeting. Rather than running through CO to trace the budget to regulatory accounts, using the HPC UFA, you can input the regulatory budget using a separate front-end that allows for direct entry to the accounts in any amount. Have as many versions as needed for internal and external users. Regulatory Budgets is compared to actual using the HPC UFA click-thru financial statements.

Click-Thru Profit & Loss Financials allow you to drill down from Net Income to regulatory accounts, to natural accounts, and down further to any one of thousands of supporting documents. With just a few clicks, you’ll be able to go from the highest-level income statement line item view to individual transactions, and back again with ease.

Click-Thru Balance Sheet leverages your existing financial statement versions for your existing balance sheet by using our exclusive reverse translation maps to present the regulatory balance sheet accounts in click-thru folders. Each folder provides greater granularity so you can see the balance sheet in summary and regulatory account detail.

Post-Close Adjustments provides a means to enter reclassifica-tions after the general ledger has been closed. This is typical for rate case or cost of service rate setting where costs are moved,

added or eliminated from the posted actual costs on the general ledger. Traditional ‘As Is’ vs. ‘As Adjusted’ is displayed back using the same interactive click-thru financials used for actual financial statements. With Post-Close Adjustments you get the added flexibility to store as many adjustment versions as required for regulators and internal management.

Auto Assign for Regulatory ID automatically connects the dots between SAP’s Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Finance functionality by assigning regulatory indicators to work orders based on functional locations. This makes order creation easier, faster, and more accurate than asking field forces to enter regulatory IDs manually.

Auto Assign for Translation helps you translate every dollar in every natural FI-GL account correctly. Updating and maintaining thousands of lines of translation will no longer be tedious and error-prone. Translation Auto Assign covers every possible combination and makes translation maintenance and updates far more hands-off and accurate.

Generator for Regulatory Accounts enables you to create new regulatory accounts in Microsoft Excel and upload them to the SAP FI General Ledger. You’ll save time when creating new regulatory accounts for electric, gas, water and wastewater in your DEV, QAS and PRD clients. Generator for Regulatory Indicators creates the indictors required to comply with your chart of accounts. Each utility segment has functional accounts that need to be populated from internal orders, plant maintenance (PM) orders, or Work Break-down Structure (WBS) objects. The regulatory indictor generator creates the table entries required on these objects based on the digit order of the regulatory accounts in the general ledger.

Conversion Optimizer takes many work orders in CO and PM and retroactively assigns the correct regulatory indicators to them. It accelerates your use of regulatory reporting by uploading new regulatory indicators to existing orders.

HPC America is a utility industry expert with more than 15 years of experience implementing SAP and developing back-office solutions in accounting, customer billing, supply chain management, and business intelligence specifically for utilities. HPC is a certified SAP software and service partner, and works with all SAP® IS-Utility solutions from IS-U/FERC to Customer Relationship & Billing (formerly CCS), Work Clearance, Public Sector Funds Management, and Business Intelligence.

HPC America is also the original developer of the IS-U/FERC module, which SAP acquired in 1996. Since then, HPC has been intimately involved in its implementation and optimization at more than a dozen utilities. Our customers include Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, Tacoma Public Utilities, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Puget Sound Energy, Wisconsin Electric, Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Trans Bay Cable, and Sonoma County Water Agency.

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