What are the Key Challenges Solved by Group Reporting?
- Iterations take a lot of time: Iterations in preparations of consolidated financials consume a lot of time.
- Lack of Audit Trail: Excel-based financials do not provide audit trails and traceability of consolidated numbers.
- Lack of Standardization: Without a system in place, crucial calculations such as currency conversions, goodwill, and NCI may not be standardized.
- Integrity of Consolidated Financials: With all the manual processes such as currency conversion, intercompany eliminations, and elimination of equity- investments the reliability of consolidated financials is lower.
- Lack of Authorization and Access Controls: The sensitive financial information contained in excel sheets/Emails is vulnerable to unauthorized access.
- Difficulty in Collaboration: Without work-flow, versioning, comments, and notifications, collaboration amongst all stakeholders is a challenge.