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SAP Financials16 - 18 May 2011Sofi tel Sydney Wentworth, Australia

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35 Presentations, Case Studies and Sessions in 6 tracks over 3 days

Powerful Keynote Speaker Line-up Featuring SAP Financials Experts: Christopher A. Bowling (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, USA), William J. “Jody” Billiard (Coke Consolidated, USA), Johannes Le Roux (Satreno, USA), Janet Salmon (SAP AG, Germany) and Mary Jane Rivera (HMH, USA)

Interactive Workshop on Financial Excellence: How to ensure quality at source; ways to achieve value-add reporting and analytics; essentials to be compliant in audit and risk management; and how to empower people to enable fi nancial excellence

Special Interest Sessions: Monthly Reporting: learn how you can retrieve dynamic period,

year-to-date, life-to-date and quarter balances out of your SAP Financials system using simple Excel formulas out of the box

Simplifi ed Reporting From Within ERP: great looking reports without BI

Travel Planning - Integrated Online Booking: view functionality that can save your business travel dollars and improve the visibility of the end-to-end travel planning process

10 International Presentations providing insights into what companies are achieving globally

Entire Program Vetted by the Mastering SAP Financials Advisory Team representing large, medium and small organisations across many industry sectors

Solutions Showcase Featuring selected partners who understand the business of organisations using SAP Financials and are serious about helping you make the smartest business and IT investments

Unrivalled Community Networking Activities: pre-conference drinks; community networking drinks on Monday evening; direct access to presenters at Speakers’ Corner; connecting at lunches and tea breaks in the exhibition area; and utilising complimentary meeting rooms

Take Home Tools and Resources: electronic access to all keynotes, track presentations and sessions

Membership to Australia’s Most Powerful SAP Financials Community: you will receive a contact list of all conference participants, helping to maintain the momentum created and keeping the community connected, motivated and informed all year round

Thoughtfully designed to

encourage you to look outside of your company and

industry, Mastering SAP Financials is a gathering place where Finance Professionals

engage in brave and important conversations, fi nd answers to common challenges, and inspire one another to explore future opportunities. This year marks our 15th year of serving and supporting Australian and New Zealand SAP Communities.

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Financial Reporting & Analysis Best practice solutions for extracting information out of SAP and delivering reports that meet business objectives; options available with and without BI; utilising tools in Enhancement Packs 3 and 4; business process compliance - the business owning the project with IT; understanding the fi nancial risk from poor data management; using archiving as a driver for master data management and quality control; the need for data ownership - how to empower the business user; spread sheet crisis management - avoiding reliance and use of Excel spread sheets as the source of leading data; SAP Spreadsheet Server, the risk of report infl ation - managing the volume of reports created; corporate responsibility reporting; performance issues and challenges; creating executive dashboards; utilising functionality such as broadcasts and exception reporting; improved decision making through effective information management

AP Automation & Document Management

Improve accessibility of AP documents through scanning and workfl ow solutions; digitise typical business processes such as procurement and accounts payable; which tools help with mass invoicing?; how to move to automated processes using workfl ow; reducing processing costs; scanning automation solutions; 3rd party tools; working with your vendors for a fl exible solution; journey from paper-based dependency to total automation; procure to pay; speed of invoice processing; linking back to original SAP documentation management systems and how it integrates with SAP

Master Data Management & Data Ownership Relevance of process design - simplifi ed process mapping; educating users on the importance of accurate data - creating awareness of “garbage in/garbage out” and diminishing the “set and forget” mentality; assessing the costs of data storage; impact on compliance and reporting; data quality and integrity - archiving as a strategy to manage master data; who is responsible for data input - training to educate, support and empower the user; SAP Master Data Management (MDM); master data review processes; master data management as a culture change not a project; adopting open source principles to identify inaccurate master data; developing a strong focus on collaboration to overcome knowledge management issues; fl exibility vs. control; time constraints that impact the user when the user is not empowered to extract the data

Budgeting, Forecasting & PlanningBudgeting and planning solutions that meet users expectations; integrated approach to producing budgets and forecasts; reducing the effort required to build forecasts; how to get the balance right between IT and business to meet business requirements; knowledge management and documentation regarding budgeting processes and solutions; successful solutions that allow integrated reporting on budget and actual data; how to compare tools and build a business case; how SAP Funds Management integrates with other modules; using Funds Management and BCS to support different budgeting approaches; establish spending controls; provide a fl exible modelling and planning tool; tackling common performance issues

Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)Segregation of duties; SAP access control functionality; the business case to buy GRC; can GRC assist to resolve ongoing authorisation management challenges?; management of super user access and sensitive transaction access; authority governance model; audit process and compliance

Upgrades & Enhancement Packs (EhP 5)Implementing an appropriate enhancement pack without impacting current business processes; technical upgrade vs. the business need; importance of testing when applying the enhancement packs; evaluating new features; Business as Usual (BAU) vs. freeze - how can the confl ict of interest between the business need for continuous system changes be balanced with the need for a “freeze” when conducting testing?; decision process for deciding which new feature to switch on; how to cope with an upgrade if a system is heavily customised?; planning for an upgrade - timing and resources; building a business case for upgrading; system and data standardisation; building confi gurable user interfaces with fl oor plan manager

SAP System Consolidation & Organisational Restructures Best practice strategies for successfully merging systems; solution approaches available within SAP to refl ect organisational restructures; impacts on the fi nance community; options - roll out, re-implementation; legislation restrictions; archiving requirements; implementation costs and costing processes; evaluation criteria and risk analysis; process design and tools for system consolidation and separation; process compliance; handling multiple SAP systems; SAP solution options

The New G/LThe new G/L vs. “classic” G/L; what value does the new G/L provide?; what does the new G/L really deliver for business objectives?; green fi elds implementing the new G/L; trialling and testing; migration cockpit; additional functionality; impact of migration

Grants ManagementDealing and managing high volumes of grants; audit functionality to meet record keeping requirements; grants management reporting with the aim of linking all relevant information back to SAP

Hot TopicsThe depth and breadth of the content is a result of 6 months of careful research and development. Finance Professionals from more than 120 organisations across Australia have collaborated with the Mastering SAP Financials Advisory Team in a series of Round Table Discussions to create this program around 9 Hot Topics.

Keynote and International Speakers

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Ant is an elite athlete whose achievements demonstrate the incredible power of the mind. One of the best free divers in the world, he has pushed through both physical and mental barriers to hold his breath for over eight minutes, to dive deeper than 280 feet in the ocean and to swim 223m without stopping for breath. In short, he knows how to overcome some of the most demanding and uncomfortable challenges a person can face! With passion and intelligence, Ant speaks to his audience about redefi ning their limits and removing the barriers that stand in the way of success.

Special Guest Speaker: Ant Williams - Free Diver & Sports Psychologist

The Moment of Truth - How to Handle When You Most Want to Give Up!

Christopher started his career in public accounting, moving to higher education in 1988 serving as the Director of Accounting at Shippensburg University. He made the full time jump to the SAP world in 2001 when Shippensburg’s parent agency, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, decided to migrate to a central ERP system for fi nance, procurement and human resources for its member institutions. He served as the Central Team Lead for Finance, Funds Management and Procurement during the initial 3 phase implementation and for subsequent upgrades from 4.6c through ECC 6.0. Chris now leads the team of SAP Financial Management functional support specialists. Christopher is a Certifi ed Public Accountant and holds a Doctorate in Public Administration.

Christopher A. Bowling - Director, SAP Financial Management Information Systems, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (USA)

Taking the ECC 6.0 Upgrade Plunge - Planning for Success Based on Experience

Putting the Lid on Spending with SAP’s Budget Control System

Janet Salmon joined SAP AG in 1992. After six months of training on R/2, she began work as a translator, becoming a technical writer for the product costing area in 1993. As English speakers with a grasp of German costing methodologies were rare in the early 1990s, she began to hold classes and became a product manager for the product costing area in 1996 and helped numerous international organisations set-up product costing. More recently, she has worked on CO content for the Business Information Warehouse, Financial Analytics and role-based portals. She is currently a Solution Manager in SAP ERP Financials with responsibility for people productivity in this area. She lives in Speyer, Germany, with her husband and two children.

Janet Salmon - Solution Manager, Suite Solution Management, Financial Excellence, SAP AG (Germany)

Change the Way Your End Users Experience SAP Financials

Taking the Spreadsheets Out of Your Close Process

Jody has been working for the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated since 2006, currently serving as VP Operations, Finance and CAO. Previously he was the Senior VP, Interim CFO and Corporate Controller of Matthews, NC based Portrait Corporation of America, Inc. Jody has worked in a number of senior fi nancial positions such as VP, CFO of Tailored Management, a long-term staffi ng company headquartered in Huntersville, NC and WorldTravel BTI (now BCD Travel). He received an Accounting Degree from Pittsburg State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude, completed a Rotary Graduate Fellowship at the University of Tasmania and has been a Certifi ed Public Accountant since 1988.

William J. “Jody” Billiard - Vice President, Operations Finance and Chief Accounting Offi cer, Coca Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (USA)

Financial Reporting - Spreadsheet Heaven or Hell?

Procurement at Coke Consolidated - Navigation from Frustration to Automation

Johannes is a SAP Platinum Level Financials consultant with more than 25 years of professional IT experience with 20 years of consulting and implementation experience in SAP’s R/2, R/3 and ECC. He has spent over 10 years as a platinum level consultant with SAP with the big four companies working on multi-national rollouts of SAP R/3 and ECC throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. Johannes has spoken on multiple topics over the years at ASUG meetings, the Eastern Tennessee State University, Financial Experts Conference and Sapphire. He has also delivered multiple webinars with SAP ASUG.

Johannes Le Roux - Senior Partner, Satreno North America (USA)

Customer Gains and Benefi ts Implementing SAP Business Intelligence

New G/L Migration Roadmap and Cockpit

Mary Jane (MJ) is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, holds a Master’s degree in Accounting and is also a Certifi ed Public Accountant. She has fi fteen years of progressive experience within a wide range of industries including public accounting, oil and gas, consumer products and educational publishing. In her current role at Houghton Miffl in Harcourt, MJ leads a team that is responsible for managing $1.6 Billion of revenue and is focused on providing fi nancial planning and analysis around the organisation’s various revenue streams. Her team’s work provides critical inputs into the company’s operating plan as well as the foundation for building long-term strategic and fi nancial planning. MJ is also committed to her family and community.

Mary Jane (MJ) Rivera - Vice President, Finance & Business Control, Education Group, Houghton Miffl in Harcourt Publishing Company (USA)

Coming Out of the Perfect Storm: How HMH Navigated Improvement in Sales and Operational Planning

In-Depth Look at the HMH Approach to Improved Sales and Operational Planning with SAP BPC

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Conference Overview

Wednesday Workshop

Financial Excellence - What is it? How do I Rate? How Can I Improve?

Facilitated by: Eckart Altenkamp - National Client Solution Manager, Plaut IT Australia Pty Ltd

08.30

Monday Conference Day One

Sunday Evening JumpStart

Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Monthly Reporting - Can I Rely on My Friend Mr Excel?

Stefan Goehring - General Manager, TAMS Strategy and Performance

Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome

08.00

18.30

08.35

09.00 Opening Keynote Presentation: Coming Out of the Perfect Storm: How HMH Navigated Improvement in Sales and Operational Planning

Mary Jane Rivera - Vice President, Finance & Business Control, Education Group, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (USA)

10.10

TRACK A TRACK B TRACK C

Change the Way Your End Users Experience SAP Financials

Janet Salmon - Solutions Manager, Suite Solution Management, Financial Excellence, SAP AG (Germany)

Dealing With M&A Activity - Tools and Ideas for System Consolidations and Separation

Leith Morris - SAP FI/CO Capability Lead, Accenture Australia Ltd

11.00 Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

How We Changed Our Reporting World… And Are Continuing to Do So

Carolyn Hall - Senior Finance Manager, Kraft Foods Australia/New Zealand



11.40

12.35

Procurement at Coke Consolidated- Navigation From Frustration to Automation

William J. “Jody” Billiard - Vice President, Operations Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (USA)

A Super Result! Superpartners Successfully Implement SAP BPC to Meet Increased Financial Reporting Requirements

Michelle O’Brien - Financial Controller and National Manager, Shared Services, Superpartners Pty Ltd

Three Open Source Principles to Revolutionise Your Master Data Management

Peter Chapman - Senior Solution Architect, Innogence Limited

Practical Ways to Improve your Financial Excellence

Eckart Altenkamp - National Client Solution Manager, PLAUT IT Australia Pty Ltd

Lunch/Exhibition Viewing13.25

Do I Really Need a Dashboard???

Craig Nicholls - SAP BW Team Lead, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)

Managing Risks and Reporting: My Way, The Highway and the BI Way

Grant Robinson - Manager Corporate Finance, Powerlink Queensland

14.25

15.20

Master Data - Get It Right Up Front

Rohan Randall - RIS (Regional Information Support) Manager Australasia, SCA Hygiene Australasia Pty Ltd

Taking the ECC 6.0 Upgrade Plunge - Planning for Success Based on Experience


How to Realise Closed-Loop Planning Scenarios with SAP BPC

Rebecca Livesey - Strategy and Execution Manager, QR National & Stuart Hooker - EPM Practice Lead, Extend Technologies

Achieving Financial Excellence Via Automation and Processing Efficiency - Starting with Procurement & Accounts Payable (AP)

Lee Gale - SAP Solutions Director ANZ, Open Text Australia Pty Limited

Guest Keynote Presentation: The Moment of Truth - How to Handle When You Most Want to Give Up! Ant Williams - Free Diver and Sports Psychologist

Mastering SAP Financials Community Networking Drinks Sponsored by

16.50

17.50

Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing16.10

Tuesday Conference Day Two

Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing08.00

Automating Accounts Payable - Finding a Way That Works for You!

Matt Crosby - Integration Architect, Porter Davis Homes

10.40

Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing



10.00

11.35 Taking the Spreadsheets Out of Your Close Process


Do Your Business Leaders Make Decisions Based on Information They Do Not Trust or Do Not Have?

Steven Gibson - Data Governance Solution Architect, IBM Information Management

Keynote Presentation: Customer Gains and Benefits Implementing SAP Business Intelligence


Breakfast Session 1: Simplified Reporting From Within ERP - Great Looking Reports Without BI

Lorelie Oswald - Managing Principal Financials, Field Services, SAP Australia Pty Ltd

09.00

08.00

Lunch/Exhibition Viewing

Planning and Integrating Corporate Responsibility Reporting

Robert Poole - GM, Industry and Government Affairs, Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited

12.25

13.25 In-Depth Look at the HMH Approach to Improved Sales and Operational Planning with SAP BPC


Reveal and Shield Your Business Against Potential Fraud - SAP Governance Risk and Compliance

Mariaan Jordaan - Managing Director GRC BU, TWC (South Africa)

Driving the Finance Transformation Agenda in a Global Organisation

Caoimhe Connolly - IT Account Manager Finance, British American Tobacco Australasia Ltd

14.20 Master Data Management - Driving Business Ownership and Making it Happen

Darren Smailes - Business Systems Solution Manager, Airservices Australia

Transforming AP for Efficiency Gains: The Impact of AP Process Automation in the Shared Services Environment

Santosh Nair - Vice President, Sales and Global Business Management, Siemens IT Solutions & Services Operations

Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Mastering SAP Financials Conference Close

Closing Keynote Presentation: Financial Reporting - Spreadsheet Heaven or Hell?


15.10

17.00

15.50


Organisational Restructures in a Live SAP Environment - Many Solution Options to Consider

Craig Jessep - Finance Process Improvement Manager, Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd (New Zealand)

Achieving Financial Excellence

Peter Tysoe - Group Finance Manager, iNova Pharmaceuticals (Australia) Pty Limited & Richard Frykberg - Operations Director, IQX Business Solutions

Breakfast Session 2: Travel Planning - Integrated Online Booking (Trains, Planes and Automobiles)

Mike Vorias - Senior Financials Consultant, SAP Australia Pty Ltd

Green Fields Implementation of the New G/L - To Split or Not to Split, That is The Question

Liz Wicks - Director & Donna Turner - SAP System Architect, Department of Finance and Deregulation


How We Changed Our Reporting World… And Are Continuing to Do So

Hear how Cadbury (prior to the Kraft purchase of Cadbury) implemented its first consolidated reporting tool (BI 7.0) based on different transaction systems across the Australia/New Zealand business for its commercial results. This presentation will assist you in understanding their approach in how they chose BI 7.0, the reporting issues this project solved, the things that went wrong and the change management approach taken.

• Determining the business need

• The business owning the project with IS

• Separating transactional and business reporting hierarchies

• Changing the norm on systems integration testing

• Change management approach

• Reporting benefits received

• Future integration steps with Kraft

• What Cadbury has learnt - the good and the bad

• Communication is still the key - keep communication live throughout the project and set those expectations as early as possible

Carolyn Hall - Senior Finance Manager, Kraft Foods Australia/New Zealand

Current SAP release: ECC 6.0Original go-live date: July 2009

11.40


Sunday 15 May 2011


Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing11.00

Green Fields Implementation of the New G/L - To Split or Not to Split, That is The Question

Hear from the first public sector organisation to green fields implement the New SAP General Ledger (G/L). This presentation will help you understand the trials and tribulations of implementing the New G/L with too many splitting objects and the brave decision to re-implement to get it right and meet the business need.

• Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (Oh... we got it wrong)

• Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them (Do we re-implement?)

• The undiscovered country (no one has done this before)

• Enterprises of great pitch and moment (lessons learned)

• “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em”

Come share a rather uniquely philosophical view of what was done; then undone; and the tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms. An epic tale of Shakespearian proportions.

Liz Wicks - Director & Donna Turner - SAP System Architect, Department of Finance and Deregulation

Current SAP release: ECC 6.0 Original go-live date: October 2008

10.10 Change the Way Your End Users Experience SAP Financials

Do new users struggle to find the transactions and reports they need?

Consider providing role-based access to the transactions they need. The presentation will look at the roles delivered to structure existing SAP GUI transactions and newer web applications and how they can be implemented in the SAP NetWeaver Business Client, without requiring you to implement a SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal (from SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0).

Delve into implementing a report launch pad to provide access to reports whether in SAP ERP, SAP BW or SAP BusinessObjects tools. Take a look at some of the existing web applications for financials users, including the parts of Manager Self Service designed for cost centre managers and project managers and Express Planning, designed to simplify the collection of data for your annual budget - both of which were reworked to run without requiring you to implement a portal in Enhancement Package 5.

• Shared Service Framework - how it can simplify the handling of requests from the business to the shared service center and the self service applications designed for use within this framework

• Further developments underway with the floor plan manager which will provide the ability to build configurable user interfaces

Janet Salmon - Solutions Manager, Suite Solution Management, Financial Excellence, SAP AG (Germany)

Monday 16 May 2011Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome

08.00

08.35

09.00

18.30

Opening Keynote Presentation: Coming Out of the Perfect Storm: How HMH Navigated Improvement in Sales and Operational Planning

Approximately three years ago, the landscape of the U.S. economy took a dramatic downturn. This, coupled with several other key factors, led to one of the most challenging times in HMH’s (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company) history. This presentation will provide an overview of several challenges the company faced during a very condensed period of time and how the organisation was able to overcome these challenges while achieving significant operational and financial improvements.

The focus of the discussion will be on the approach the company used to overcome issues within its sales and operations planning processes as well as how it leveraged BPC (SAP’s Business Planning and Consolidations tool) in its road to improvement.

• Why do companies need better planning and forecasting?

• Challenges along the value chain

• HMH’s approach for determining the path to improvement

• The solution

• Results speak volumes - hear where HMH is today


Current SAP release: R/3 4.7Original go-live date: October 2006

Pre-Conference JumpStart Session: Monthly Reporting - Can I Rely on My Friend Mr Excel?

Are you currently preparing your financial analysis and reports for SAP Solutions in Microsoft Excel? Are you looking for answers on how your projects are going? Would you like to automate your Excel processes using data from your SAP G/L? Tired of spread sheet crisis management?

If one of the answers is YES, then join us for this session and learn how you can retrieve dynamic period, year-to-date, life-to-date and quarter balances straight out of your SAP Financials system using simple Excel formulas out of the box.

Find out how SAP customers leverage spread sheet automation solutions and how easy it is to:

• Cater for the need of dynamic information, created by the highly volatile nature of financial reporting

• Empower the finance department to create/change financial reports

• Drill down from within Excel, to ‘live’ SAP G/L balances and data

• Track progress on your projects

Stefan Goehring - General Manager, TAMS Strategy and Performance


This presentation will cover the functional, technical and business process related to the migration to the New G/L with roadmap and Cockpit tips for anyone considering migrating to the New G/L.

The six major migration scenarios available to move to the New G/L will also be covered and the impact of the migration and methodology required to complete an end to end migration with timelines.

• Historical data

• What other companies do to bridge the reporting GAP?

• What is the Migration Cockpit?

• Scenario - straightforward and complex

• Adding additional functionality for clients already on New G/L

The presentation is geared to all levels of the financial organisation from the CFO to the financial super user and Consultants. Project Managers will also find this presentation helpful in planning their migration projects to determine the project pipeline required to migrate to the New G/L.


12.35 A Super Result! Superpartners Successfully Implement SAP BPC to Meet Increased Financial Reporting Requirements

For over 25 years Superpartners has partnered with industry superannuation funds. With 1700 employees, Superpartners has around $82 billion under administration for over 6 million member accounts.

Recently, demand has increased from managers and regulators for regular financial reporting and regulatory requirements have become more challenging. Superpartners’ then existing financial systems struggled to cope with the increasing pressures and complexities. In addition the business processes were lacking and data integrity was an issue. This drove Superpartners to proactively search for a solution that would make them more agile in their planning processes.

In conjunction with its SAP ERP implementation, in October 2009 Superpartners deployed SAP BPC throughout their business. With the main goal being to provide a flexible modelling and planning tool which would allow an integrated approach in producing budgets and forecasts.

• Key challenges of being an “early adopter” - how do you know what you don’t know?

• Re-evaluating your current business processes

• Dealing with change

• The project team approach - implementing and managing a solution within the finance team

• Lesson learned - what would be done differently?

• Project highlights and benefits gained

Michelle O’Brien - Financial Controller and National Manager, Shared Services, Superpartners Pty Ltd



13.25 Lunch/Exhibition Viewing

Practical Ways to Improve your Financial Excellence

“Financial excellence is achieved when your people, processes and technology are leveraged to ensure strong cash flow and liquidity, as well as compliant, accurate financial reporting and maximized profitability.” - Bruce Romney, Director, SAP Center of Excellence.

Discover what you can do to improve your financial excellence using SAP!

This interactive session will lead through the challenge and explain practical ways for your financial organisation to impose discipline upon those things that create value. Learn how to successfully understand your own value creating process and set of critical performance indicators which will empower you to monitor your financial excellence. Quality at source, defined reporting processes and transparent audit & risk management are relevant and related domains that need to be seen as enablers of shareholder value creation.

What are best-in-class performers doing to address financial compliance challenges? We will introduce you to practical solutions which will improve your financial excellence and produce positive impact to your bottom line.

Eckart Altenkamp - National Client Solution Manager, PLAUT IT Australia Pty Ltd

Three Open Source Principles to Revolutionise Your Master Data Management

Consistent master data is essential for accurate reporting but is notoriously difficult to achieve. Learn how the power of open source collaboration can be ignited in your organisation and harnessed to bring your master data under control.

Discover principles of how to generate collaboration around Master Data Management (MDM) and where master data strategies go wrong. Examine strategies that have been deployed by companies successfully using MDM as well as areas where companies may have failed.

The clear message throughout this presentation is that success only comes from empowering all users!

• Powerful open source principles you can adopt to identify inaccurate master data

• The second law of thermodynamics and how it applies to master data

• Lessons from an online dating site

• Creative strategies and tools leveraging the latest SAP Master Data Management (MDM) technologies

• Real world success stories

Peter Chapman - Senior Solution Architect, Innogence Limited

Dealing With M&A Activity - Tools and Ideas for System Consolidations and Separation

The post financial downturn world is a hotbed of organisational restructure activity with many SAP customers looking for strategic mergers, acquisitions and divestments (M, A & D). How do you deal with ERP environments and the data within them to form a key component of planning for M, A & D? Explore practical SAP tools and some simple design considerations to assist in planning a new enterprise structure in SAP and/or executing a system consolidation or separation. Learn from project teams’ experiences with rolling newly acquired businesses into an existing SAP system, setting up a joint venture in SAP, splitting apart an existing SAP system and running SAP support services under a transitional support agreement.

• Enterprise structure and master data design for flexibility

• Designing processes for consolidation and separation

• Tools for system consolidation and separation

• Planning the implementation

• Lessons learned

Leith Morris - SAP FI/CO Capability Lead, Accenture Australia Ltd

Procurement at Coke Consolidated - Navigation From Frustration to Automation

In 2004, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC), the largest independent Coke bottler in the US, implemented its first phase of SAP including Financial and Controlling modules. Shortly thereafter, experiencing no improvement in the procure-to-pay process, CCBCC embarked on a journey to automate P2P. While still on the voyage from old world paper dependency to new world total automation, CCBCC strives to improve its sailing capabilities as time and capital resource availability allow.

• Background of the company, its operations, its vision, its opportunities and its challenges

• The evolution of the procurement function

• The frustrations of manual P2P

• Navigate the technologies utilised to improve the P2P processes

• Focusing on the imaging and workflow capabilities

• Suggestions on beginning the journey

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip - of CCBCC’s payment process. And the map they used to improve efficiency, alleviate frustration and increase accuracy. This presentation is targeted at those within P2P environments who are exploring their options to change the course of their procurement activities and to improve employee morale.


Current SAP release: ERP 6.0Original go-live date: May 2004


Do I Really Need a Dashboard???

“Dashboards, Dashboards, Dashboards” is all we hear in the world of reporting at the moment, but are they your only option? Dashboards are more than just an assortment of pretty graphs, they can be an important tool for managing your organisation. But is a dashboard what you really need?

This presentation will look at the different options for reporting from within your organisation, from dashboards to pre-formatted reports to slice and dice. We will analyse some of FaHCSIA’s reporting solutions including their Executive Dashboard to identify what works and why. We will also discuss the benefits of utilising functionality such as broadcasting and exceptions reporting.

Identify the key elements for what makes a reporting project successful, understanding user needs, getting the business on board, identifying business pain points, planning and communication, nurtured go-live and on-going support.

Craig Nicholls - SAP BW Team Lead, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)

Current SAP release: ERP 6.0Original go-live date: June 1999

14.25 Master Data - Get It Right Up Front

SAP Master Data is an integral link to all processes and transactions within SAP. Ensuring that master data is correct and up to date is therefore an important part of ensuring accuracy in SAP and therefore reducing rework and corrections, often time consuming activities.

SCA Hygiene Australasia is one of the leading manufacturers in hygiene solution products in the Australasia region and worldwide. The master data used in SAP to produce such intricate products is vast, diverse and dynamic and there is a need for it to be maintained both timely and accurately.

• The problems with inaccurate master data

• Creating a focus for master data in your company

• Ownership of master data

• Master data review processes

• Improvements gained from a better process

Rohan Randall - RIS (Regional Information Support) Manager Australasia, SCA Hygiene Australasia Pty Ltd

Current SAP release: R/3 4.7cOriginal go-live date: January 2005


How to Realise Closed-Loop Planning Scenarios with SAP BPC

Implementing a closed-loop planning scenario may appear intuitive and simple in theory but poses several challenges in practice. QR National also had to be prepared to balance the competing requirements of two departments with differing, yet complementary requirements.

This presentation will demonstrate how SAP BPC is used at QR National to realise structured bottom-up planning in conjunction with flexible, driver-based scenario modelling.

• Overcoming challenges to integrating BPC with your existing SAP applications

• How to tackle common performance issues

• Creating the right balance between IT administration and end-user flexibility

• Integrating traditional financial planning with dynamic modelling

• How to design an intuitive and flexible system that can replace existing spreadsheet models

Come and find out how QR National has implemented SAP BPC and tackled various functional and technical challenges along the way.

Rebecca Livesey - Strategy and Execution Manager, QR National & Stuart Hooker - EPM Practice Lead, Extend Technologies

Current SAP release: ECC 6.0Original go-live date: June 1997

Tuesday 17 May 2011Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing08.00

08.00 Bring your thoughts, ideas and questions and join us for a croissant and some coffee and participate in the discussions. To register for either of these sessions, please indicate your attendance on your registration form.

16.10 Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Guest Keynote Presentation: The Moment of Truth - How to Handle When You Most Want to Give Up!Ant Williams - Free Diver and Sports Psychologist

16.50

Mastering SAP Financials Community Networking Drinks Sponsored by 17.50


Managing Risks and Reporting: My Way, The Highway and the BI Way

There’s so much information that we have available to make decisions. BI systems and tools are designed to collect that information into a “single version of the truth” and help us plough through that mass of information to make better decisions. But what is “the truth”? What is a “better decision”? The truth is… you can’t handle the truth! And “better” decisions are always obvious after the fact!

This presentation goes back to basics and summarises the learnings, the failures, the experiences (good and bad) and the conceptual approach to defining and prioritising information reporting in Powerlink.

• The highway - eliminate the following approaches:

- A “single version of the truth”

- We’re here to service whatever requirements our customers have

- Put it in, turn it on and it looks after itself

- Turn on standard content and see what we get

• My way (actually Stephen Covey’s way, from “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)

- Begin with the end in mind

- Put first things first

- Seek first to understand

• The BI way

- To BI or not to BI, what is the question?

- Filling in the gaps that standard content leaves

- Regular reconciliations for that ring of confidence

Grant Robinson - Manager Corporate Finance, Powerlink Queensland

Current SAP release: ECC 6.0Original go-live date: June 1999

15.20 Taking the ECC 6.0 Upgrade Plunge - Planning for Success Based on Experience

Upgrades in SAP can be challenging and somewhat intimidating, but with proper research and planning, many issues can be identified and addressed in advance. Drawing upon the experiences of a medium sized government agency, upgrade team members and project planners will be provided with a set of best practices that can help maximise their chances of success.

This presentation will cover the business case for upgrading and developing an upgrade project plan. It will focus on managing the technical landscape during the upgrade and the issues identified in the testing phase and the go-live experiences.

• Sources of upgrade information

• Good documentation provides invaluable assistance when deciding what object modifications to retain via the modification assistant transaction (SPAU)

• The more practice upgrades you perform, the less stressful go-live will be

• Business does not stop! Have a landscape management plan to meet your production system transport needs during the upgrade project

• Minimise down time by dividing the upgrade into an online and offline portion


Current SAP release: ECC 6.0 Original go-live date: November 2002

Achieving Financial Excellence Via Automation and Processing Efficiency - Starting with Procurement & Accounts Payable (AP)

There has never been more pressure to reduce costs within business whilst maintaining overall performance. But a singular focus on cost reduction initiatives leaves many of the real, long-lasting business benefits unrealised. The best-run businesses adopt a balanced approach to Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) cost reduction that combines process optimisation and reporting, integration of processes and data and the elimination of process latency killers such as paper-based processes.

In this presentation , you will learn how to digitise typical business processes such as procurement and accounts payable.

• How to begin? You can’t optimise what you don’t understand!

• Information management strategy for financial data and documents

• Global trends in procurement and accounts payable that should influence your strategy

• What benchmarking and business case tools are available - and how to make the most of them

• Continuing improvement after the initial implementation

Lee Gale - SAP Solutions Director ANZ, Open Text Australia Pty Limited

09.00

Breakfast Session 1

Simplified Reporting From Within ERP - Great Looking Reports Without BI

See and understand the reporting functions available to all ECC 6.0 customers through utilising tools available in Enhancement Packs 3 and 4. Making reports easier to read, more attractive and easy to use while lowering the costs of delivering reports to your business.

• Options available with and without BI

• Easy personalisation of reports by end users with little or no training

• What content is available in Enhancement Packs 3 and 4?

• How to switch between web and excel in the reports

• Real time drill down, drag and drop and other navigation options

• Reporting in ERP can look great, easy and low cost - no ABAPers necessary

• Unlock the power of your ERP investment to keep your users happy

Lorelie Oswald - Managing Principal Financials, Field Services, SAP Australia Pty Ltd

Customer Gains and Benefits Implementing SAP Business Intelligence

This presentation will cover customer gains and benefits implementing SAP Business Intelligence. It will address the impact of the implementation methodology required to complete an SAP Business Intelligence implementation. Discover the options and benefits you will face:

• SAP Business Intelligence all in one best practice solution

- SAP best practices for business intelligence paths to deploy dashboards and reports which help provide better visibility into common business operations in SAP ERP

- SAP BusinessObjects fast deployment and low cost of ownership

- A pre-configured solution that reduces ERP and BI integration costs and speeds deployment

• SAP BusinessObjects Edge Planning and Consolidation

- Automated flow of general ledger data from SAP NetWeaver BI into BusinessObjects planning and consolidation

- You don’t have to wait for IT to integrate applications before you start your planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation processes

- Efficient planning, forecasting and consolidation

- Increased business information for better decision making

- Pre-defined templates

- How to add alternative reporting within the finance department


Breakfast Session 2

Travel Planning - Integrated Online Booking (Trains, Planes and Automobiles)

Hear how you can integrate online booking of flights, hotels and cars within SAP Travel Management. SAP is capable of providing the necessary guidelines to integrate with two major GDS vendors. The session will demonstrate how the functionality can save your business travel dollars and improve the visibility of the end-to-end travel planning process.

SAP Australia will highlight the benefits of a fully integrated travel planning process including:

• Pre-trip approval

• Online booking

• Expense reporting

• Credit card integration

Mike Vorias - Senior Financials Consultant, SAP Australia Pty Ltd

10.00 Morning Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Automating Accounts Payable - Finding a Way That Works for You!

Porter Davis Homes processes over 400,000 invoices per annum. With a manual system in place, it means many people touch the same invoice and some touch it more than once! Sound familiar?

A key focus to make the accounts payable world a nicer place to be was to make automation do the ‘grunt’ work.

The SAP solution allowed Porter Davis to be flexible and working together with their vendors, implement multiple automated systems to the AP world.

• What methods are available for AP automation?

• All vendors invoice the same way, right?

• Some challenges of automation in the construction industry

• A sneak peek at the Porter Davis AP solution

• Where to next?

Matt Crosby - Integration Architect, Porter Davis Homes

Current SAP release: ERP 6.0Original go-live date: November 2009

10.40 Organisational Restructures in a Live SAP Environment - Many Solution Options to Consider

Find out about the many solution approaches available within SAP to reflect organisational restructures and the subsequent impacts on the finance community. Gain an understanding of the costs, risks and benefits of each and the evaluation criteria to be considered. Hear about a recent organisational restructure including the process followed and the key learnings.

• Business drivers - country changes, consolidation, divestitures, mergers and acquisitions

• SAP solution options - organisational object reassignment, SAP SLO service offering and other alternatives

• Evaluation criteria and risk analysis - considerations for each SAP module - HR/FI/Logistics/CO Structures (CCA/PCA)/Fixed Assets

• Organisational restructure - project approach

• SAP finance users - impacts of approach selection

Make sure you are fully aware of what is possible next time a restructure comes your way and get some tips and tricks for those smaller more regular internal reorganisations.

Craig Jessep - Finance Process Improvement Manager, Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd (New Zealand)

Current SAP release: ECC 6.0Original go-live date: May 2004


Achieving Financial Excellence

Why the promise of SAP as the “single source of truth” does not mean the end of Excel. Examine five treacherous pitfalls and five great reasons to keep Excel. The reality is that despite ITs desire to wean end-users off Excel and investments made in Business Intelligence, Excel is still the most common tool in many finance organisations. Reasons include simplicity, familiarity, collaboration, flexibility and user-empowerment.

• Why we love and will keep on using Excel

• How to have the “Best of Both Worlds”

• Live demonstration

- Real time SAP finance reporting via Excel (a “pull” rather than a “push”)

- Journal processing via Excel with full data lookups and live validation

• Budgeting and forecasting via Excel

A case study from iNova Pharmaceuticals covering Excel based finance reporting and Excel based journal processing and why an Excel solution complements Business Intelligence.

Peter Tysoe - Group Finance Manager, iNova Pharmaceuticals (Australia) Pty Limited & Richard Frykberg - Operations Director, IQX Business Solutions

Current SAP release: ECC 6.0Original go-live date: January 2007

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One must spend money to generate revenue, but that doesn’t mean organisations give the green light to spend at will. SAP’s Budget Control System (BCS) within the Funds Management module can provide organisations with functionality to establish spending controls that range from very loose to extremely tight. Whilst also keeping the manager informed on budgetary activity affecting their areas of responsibility. Real life examples will be shown to illustrate how BCS configuration can promote accountability and operational efficiency.

The presentation will focus on how SAP Funds Management integrates with other modules and how Control Objects is used to determine remaining budget. It will focus on balancing budgetary control and flexibility as well as tips and suggestions learned from experience.

• Using Funds Management and BCS to support different budgeting approaches (i.e. line item, mid level, high level, mutli-year and revenue based) for business units within the same organisation

• Discovering how the key elements of Funds Management (funds, funds centres and commitment items) provide a framework to enter budget, control spending and monitor budget balances

• Using the power of derivation strategies to simplify your data input requirements


Current SAP release: ECC 6.0 Original go-live date: November 2002

11.35 Taking the Spreadsheets Out of Your Close Process

You may already have heard of the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit and how it helps you to move the lists of tasks to be ticked off during the period close from a spreadsheet and into SAP ERP. While it can simply be a to-do list with status monitoring, it can also be used to automate the close process, initiating the jobs for order settlements and so on. However other close tasks are still spreadsheet heavy - including inventory and asset valuation.

Since IAS 36 required the impairment of assets, companies have been developing huge spreadsheets to capture the assets to be impaired and to prepare the postings. A new function in EhP5 allows you to automate the process of identifying relevant assets and preparing the postings. While MM will calculate your FIFO valuation and the revaluation to be made per account and company code, it didn’t give you the details per profit center and segment, meaning that many an organisations reached for a spreadsheet. Again, a new function in EhP5 allows you to create a delta run that automates this process.

Another spreadsheet-driven process is the process of valuing goods in transit. Currently goods on long boat journeys between affiliated companies “disappear” from the balance sheet, meaning that companies regularly track them by spreadsheet. From EhP5 it is possible to value goods in transit as a new stock type and manage the transfer of ownership between the affiliated companies.

Finally, once the close postings are in place, there is a lot of ticking and tying between general ledger and sub ledger. Discover scripting options with SAP Central Process Scheduling (integrated with the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit) that allow you to automate such checks.



Planning and Integrating Corporate Responsibility Reporting

The trend towards more formal corporate responsibility reporting continues at pace and this includes the need for more rigorous systems and the application of accounting-like rules where CEO’s and Senior Executives must authorise key measures.

Murray Goulburn is a large and complex dairy company in that manages raw milk from its 2,695 farmer-members, it transports and then processes that milk in EPA regulated sites and then markets dairy products into domestic and export markets where a range of market forces and regulations are in play. Furthermore the major public debates on water and emissions significantly affect Murray Goulburn based mainly on dairy farm impacts but also resource use at processing sites.

In this context Murray Goulburn has developed strategies that create a pathway to efficient and credible compliance, resource management and reporting.

• What is corporate responsibility reporting and how does it link in with SAP?

• Discussion on the roadmap of where and how to source the data

• Process and policy planning• Integration into SAP systems• Development of reporting standards and corporate

communications • What are the emerging trends? • How is one large and complex business planning to

integrate corporate responsibility into key policies and processes including SAP systems?

• Examples of how corporate responsibility is interfacing with accounting-like protocols

Robert Poole - GM, Industry and Government Affairs, Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited

Current SAP release: ECC 6.0Original go-live date: May 2002

13.25 In-Depth Look at the HMH Approach to Improved Sales and Operational Planning with SAP BPC

This presentation will provide an overview of the sales and operational challenges HMH faced in light of several challenges. Understand how HMH formulated its approach and how the company arrived at its decision to implement SAP’s Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) tool. The discussion will also focus on how HMH conducted end-to-end process reviews and the critical aspects to their BPC implementation.

• The business challenge

• Getting to know you - taking a holistic view of the system

• BPC design and implementation approach - the method to our “madness”

• Lessons learned


Current SAP release: R/3 4.7Original go-live date: October 2006


12.25 Lunch/Exhibition Viewing

Reveal and Shield Your Business Against Potential Fraud - SAP Governance Risk and Compliance

TWC, an SAP Partner, will share the journey of more than 25 successful SAP GRC implementations completed across large and medium enterprises.

This presentation will cover the integrated rich functionality of the SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) product suite and implementation experiences: GRC Risk Management, Process Control and SAP User Access Control.

Gain a holistic picture of the Segregation of Duty (SoD), and enterprise wide risks in your organisation. Assess how to successfully manage and track risks with SAP Risk Management and Process Controls, together with the solution to resolve your ongoing SAP Authorisation maintenance, provisioning and resolve Audit issues with GRC Access Control.

• Segregation of Duties (SoD) - how to get a holistic picture of the SoD’s in your organisation

• SAP Access Control (AC) Functionality - all four components and the integration to other SAP components

• The business case to buy SAP GRC AC

• The solution to resolve your on-going SAP authorisation maintenance, controlled provision and super user/emergency access

• Audit and compliance issues - the paradigm shift

• Business risk awareness regarding granting SAP access to any user

• Control over your SoDs as an Enterprise Risk Management mitigation

• Solution to audit and compliance issues

The presentation will share the rich functionality of all SAP GRC combined with multiple implementation experiences, and practical approaches to implementing SAP GRC.

Mariaan Jordaan - Managing Director GRC BU, TWC (South Africa)

Do Your Business Leaders Make Decisions Based on Information They Do Not Trust or Do Not Have?

According to the recent IBM Global CIO Study, one in three business leaders frequently make decisions based on information they do not trust or do not have. With renewed focus on transparency and accountability, businesses and government agencies cannot afford to make decisions based on data that has been compromised. To succeed, organisations need to maintain a vigilant real-time watch on database access to prevent data breaches, ensure data integrity and reduce the cost of compliance.

• Learn why IBM acquired Guardium in 2009, a market leader in real-time enterprise database activity monitoring and protection.... and the impact for SAP users

• Understand the hidden traps and solutions to assuring the integrity of trusted information in your data centre and automating governance controls in heterogeneous enterprises

• How do you identify patterns and anomalies in data access and usage allowing organisations to maintain the integrity of your data?

• Gain critical insights into how to obtain the simplest, most robust solution for continuously monitoring access to your high-value databases

A key ‘must attend’ topic for anyone with SAP Financials operational and/or management related responsibilities.

Steven Gibson - Data Governance Solution Architect, IBM Information Management Software

Driving the Finance Transformation Agenda in a Global Organisation

British American Tobacco has undertaken a global program to standardise processes, data and IT systems in order to transform the organisation to become a more efficient and effective operating model while reducing costs. The goal of the finance leadership team is to create a high performing finance function that drives the development of an integrated global enterprise.

This presentation will take you through this transformation journey that is currently underway in anticipation of a global SAP template.

• System and data standardisation

• Process standardisation

• Migration to finance shared services centre

• Talent management

• SAP utilisation - exploit the asset

• Preparation for a global SAP template

• Awareness of potential issues, challenges and pitfalls

Caoimhe Connolly - IT Account Manager Finance, British American Tobacco Australasia Ltd

Current SAP release : R/3 4.7Original go-live date: December 2001

14.20 Master Data Management - Driving Business Ownership and Making it Happen

Hear how an organisations SAP support team enabled master data management through engagement with business process owners and using archiving as a strategy. The presentation will outline steps taken including a simplified business process mapping activity, process owner engagement and an archiving strategy that benefitted business and system performance. Benefits included a better understanding by business owners of data driving new reports and a change in culture to managing data.

• Systems, data and users - understanding what you have

• Process mapping - it’s not hard and it can work for you

• Engagement and moving from the unknown to the mutual understanding of benefits

• “The one with the most data doesn’t win” (what you really need)

• Using archiving as a strategy to manage master data

• How to position master data management as a culture change and not a project

• How process owners and business process mapping can assist in bringing the SAP team and business together

• Archiving data is more than a task it can become a framework to drive good business practice

Darren Smailes - Business Systems Solution Manager, Airservices Australia



Transforming AP for Efficiency Gains: The Impact of AP Process Automation in the Shared Services Environment

Now, more than ever, organisations are looking at new strategies to help maximise investment and streamline their operations. One area generating great interest is establishing a Shared Service Centre (SSC), bringing together common services within a disparate organisation into a single unit, to provide services to other business units in the organisation.

Consolidation of AP resources and services together with AP Process Automation brings best-in-class processing practices to the AP department for measurable cost savings, reduced processing times, increased productivity and a favourable ROI. Learn about the journey taken by Monash to transform their AP department into a centre of excellence.

• SSC trends, structure and objectives

• AP process challenges and the value that automation brings to the SSC environment

• Guidelines for selecting an automated AP processing solution

• Process efficiencies, improvements and gains

• Assured compliance and governance

• An ROI model and impact on other parts of the business

• The future and continuous improvement strategies

Santosh Nair - Vice President, Sales and Global Business Management, Siemens IT Solutions & Services Operations

15.10 Afternoon Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

Mastering SAP Financials Conference Close17.00

15.50 Closing Keynote Presentation: Financial Reporting - Spreadsheet Heaven or Hell?

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC), the largest independent Coke bottler in the United States, relies on software such as Excel and PowerPoint to communicate financial results with its own management on a routine basis. Historically, this has meant hand-churning (and headache-causing) Excel-based reports for distribution. Now, CCBCC uses Spreadsheet Server to alleviate the headaches of manual reporting.

• Background of the company, its operations, vision, opportunities and challenges

• Seek and share empathy and sympathy among worn out finance staff

• Revealing CCBCC’s sins of manual activities

• Their road to redemption through software selection

• Helpful alternatives in order to get buy-in

• Provide encouragement for reporting transformation

Follow a day in the life of managing expectations of executives and employees who find comfort in the most widely deployed financial software in the world - EXCEL! This presentation is targeted at financial management looking to improve the delivery of reporting by providing comfortable and easy to use formats.


Current SAP release: ERP 6.0Original go-live date: May 2004

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SAP Financials WorkshopWednesday 18 May 2011 Achieving fi nancial excellence requires placing more

focus on value by actively managing working capital- which is an enterprise-wide challenge. It requires streamlined process execution along the value chain.

The workshop is optional and separately bookable and will run from 9.00am to 3.00pm (places are limited and preference will be given to conference attendees). Registration opens at 8.30am and morning tea and lunch are included.

Financial Excellence - What is it? How do I Rate? How Can I Improve?This workshop will provide you with an in-depth analysis on how to achieve fi nancial excellence. It will deliver hands-on methods and tools to assess and improve your level of achievement in this fi eld.

Financial excellence is achieved when your people, processes and technology are leveraged to ensure strong cash fl ow and liquidity, as well as compliant, accurate fi nancial reporting and maximised profi tability.

Value is created by generating free cash fl ows. Does your fi nancial organisation impose discipline upon those things that create value?

Achieving fi nancial excellence requires placing more focus on value by actively managing working capital - which is an enterprise-wide challenge. It requires streamlined process execution along the value chain. Of particular signifi cance are:

• Quality at source in terms of data accuracy and integrity

• Quality reporting to optimise working capital - deliver information at the right time to the right people... in a format which meets expectations and empowers decision making

• Compliant management of risks

• Empower people to enable fi nancial excellence

This interactive workshop is a chance for you to do a self-assessment on your fi nancial excellence. Learn to ask the right questions and gain insight into what your next step on your journey should be.

Topics covered:

• How to ensure quality at source

- Understand the SAP fi nancials journey we are all on

- How to assess where you currently stand

- Is your SAP organisation structure effective?

- How to work towards transactional controls which improve working capital

• Ways to achieve value-add reporting and analytics


- How to achieve a close-loop fi nancial planning cycle

- Practical ways to manage working capital

- Easy ways to improve the use of reports by using simplifi ed data visualisation

• Essentials to be compliant in audit and risk management

- How to leverage corporate governance, enterprise risk management and regulatory compliance to reach fi nancial excellence

- Improving controls for accurate accounting practices

- Achieve corporate governance by identify the objectives, strategies, and goals of the organisation

- Realise the value of risk awareness within the enterprise to improve the organisation’s performance


• How to empower people to enable fi nancial excellence

- Why empowering your people is the only available path to business performance and success


- Practical ways to empower your team

Facilitated by: Eckart Altenkamp - National Client Solution Manager, Plaut IT Australia Pty Ltd

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10 Reasons to Attend Mastering SAP Financials

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Innogence is the largest Australian owned company offering specialised consulting services focusing entirely on Business Intelligence. Innogence is a certifi ed Partner in both SAP Services and BusinessObjects. Innogence was founded in 2005, employs over 80 staff and is regarded as having the best consultants in the industry. Innogence is considered the leader in BI in Australia due to its fl exibility, enthusiasm and common sense approach which results in successful project outcomes for its customers.

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Ensure compliance and predictability of business performance - so your organisation can gain a deeper fi nancial insight across the enterprise and tighten control of fi nances. SAP ERP Financials automates fi nancial and management accounting and fi nancial supply chain management. The solution also provides rigorous support for corporate-governance mandates such as Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley.

With more than 26,500 SAP-skilled professionals globally and a 30-year history of working closely with SAP, we deliver approximately 1,500 SAP projects each year for the world’s leading companies and public service organisations. These projects range from straight forward technical implementations to enterprise-wide transformational change initiatives.

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Experience a Uniquely Curated Three-Day ProgramUsing a uniquely crafted research methodology - a series of Round Table Discussions conducted with Finance Professionals from around Australia - and expertly guided by a Conference Advisory Team, we have created a program featuring 35 presentations, workshops and sessions that give you answers to current challenges and inspiration to embrace future opportunities.

Gather Information You Won’t Get Anywhere ElseThis is the only event of its kind in the region. Where Business and IT people from organisations using SAP for Financials come together in the same place at the same time for three days. Someone in this community has the answer to your most pressing business or technical challenge.

Get Actionable Insights and Revisit Current AssumptionsThe conference provides relevant information and actionable strategies that you can put to use immediately. Identify real-world solutions to your real-world problems. And you’ll get specifi c expertise to help streamline business processes, identify potential investment opportunities and innovate faster to keep pace with the growing demands of your business.

Immerse and Network in an Existing and Thriving CommunityIn its 6th year, Mastering SAP Financials renowned as a place where delegates, speakers, sponsors and experts engage in brave and important conversations. Tap into their collective wisdom, share valuable insights and discuss new ways and ideas during tea and lunch, in between sessions, at speaker’s corner, over a drink at the networking drinks…. and beyond.

Engage with Leading Finance VendorsSee all the best tools in one place. You’ll have ample opportunity to speak frankly with leading vendors and creative start-ups to fi nd the right tools and technologies for your business. The exhibition features selected partners who understand the business of organisations using SAP and are serious about helping you make the smartest IT and business investments.

Acquire Exclusive Access to Collaboration Tools and ResourcesUtilise our series of online tools and onsite forums for connecting with other attendees before, during and after the conference. You will receive a networking list with contact details for all attendees. You also get exclusive electronic access to all content after the conference plus access to all presentations from the previous Mastering SAP Financials Conferences.

Attain Professional Development and Improve Your SkillsReturn to the offi ce with new knowledge, enhanced skills and a renewed sense of confi dence in your abilities and your organisation’s technology direction. You’ll hear essential tips and techniques from leading fi nance experts, designed to help sharpen your skills and accelerate your career growth.

Look Outside of Your Organisation and Your IndustryAs good as it is to focus on investment in consulting and internal training, this conference is a great platform to assess (with comparative data and robust conversation) your strengths, weaknesses, costs and decision making against other organisations both inside and outside your industry.

Play Your Part in the SAP Financials CommunityYes, it’s great to learn from others but we know that there is more gratifi cation in giving than in receiving. Open your mind to new opportunities and be challenged to consider new ideas and theories.

Open your heart to new friends and colleagues and be inspired and encouraged. This conference is thoughtfully designed to be a place to capture perspectives, engage in brave and important conversations and pinpoint new and different ways to improve both professionally and personally.

Hedge Your Attendance with a 100% Investment-Back GuaranteeIf for any reason you believe you did not get value from attending Mastering SAP Financials, we will refund your entire registration fee.

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