Reporting & Budget with Opera – Amelkis Solutions

Reporting & Budget

An analysis by cost center and activity integrated into your consolidation

Today, users of Amelkis Opera software can have a cost center analysis integrated into their consolidation and reporting processes. The implementation of this type of reporting is often a prerequisite for investment funds. This reporting format can be applied to all group sizes.

Case study in an international group

To illustrate this type of reporting, we will take the example of a medium-sized group: 20 international companies, 100 million euros in turnover, 700 people, 30 activities, 50 cost centres and 4 different ERP systems. To integrate cost center analysis into its consolidation and reporting process, this group chooses to apply best practices. In concrete terms, this means setting up what is known as an "Actual" phase. This term has been widely used by major groups for many years. This Update phase unifies legal consolidation and management reporting in the same feedback. The result is productivity gains and a much better consistency of data between consolidation and management reporting.

Reporting & Budget

The organization of your reporting

As you can see, we have opened a monthly "Actual" reporting. This reporting centralizes both management reporting and legal consolidation reporting. Here the idea is not to have two parallel operations but to convey both information within the same reporting. We also have a budget phase to develop all the forecast data.

Reporting & Budget

Analyze your consolidated results by cost center and activity

This document allows you to understand how your cost centers have been aggregated into the headings of your P&L.
You have the breakdown by activity in columns.

Reporting & Budget

Compare your actual data with the budget

This document presents the consolidated P&L by cost center with an actual vs. budget comparison

Reporting & Budget

Sales by product family

This document presents you the sales by product line and activity by comparing the actual monthly with the budget

Marc Beaulieu / Financial Director

The implementation was rapidly made and with a small team, we were able to considerably shorten our deadlines ; passing from 15 to 6 days for a full monthly reporting (Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash flow tables, KPI...)

David Grolleau / Consolidation and reporting manager

We have been using Opera since 2011 for our monthly reporting, our budgets and half-yearly consolidation. Altéad is a group of 2,500 employees, specializing in transport, lifting, and industrial packaging. The group has a turnover of 240 million euro.