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Excel Budget Load Upload Tool for Oracle E-Business Suite

About Budget Wand Budget Wand allows Excel to be used as the front end to the Oracle General Ledger Budgeting functionality. With Budget Wand, Oracle Financial users can meet their important financial budgeting and forecasting requirements, all from within Excel and with minimal effort and setup. Budget Wand is used for creating and editing models; distribution and collection of budget values and for validation and upload.

Key Features • Excel based • GL Wand add-on

Create or Edit Budget Models

• Load Budget function

Budget models are Excel workbooks that typically contain a mixture of Actual and Budgets values, formulae and formatting as well as cells for entering new budget values. Actual and Budget values are reported using GL Wand’s Get Balance functions, and, entry cells are linked by the Load Budget function. Budget Wand together with Excel enables flexible user defined layouts containing any combination of Actuals, Budgets, Periods and Books as required.

• Real-time validation

Budget models contain refreshable functions linking cells directly to Oracle thereby extending the life of a budget model. Budget Administrators can easily create comprehensive excel based models, and reuse them annually or during the multiple iterations typical of a budgeting or forecasting process.

• Free format layout • Real-time error correction • Pre-integrated 11i / R12 • Oracle supported loads • Support for budget journals • Multi-book, multi-budgets, single sheet flexibility

Compatible with Microsoft Excel 2003 - 2013

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Convert Get Balance Function

Convert Get Balance function Budget Wand includes functionality to convert existing GL Wand Get Balance formulae into Budget Wand includes functionality to convert existing GL Wand Get Balance formulae into a aLoad budget function. Wand reports can easily be columns extended to include columns Load budget function. ExistingExisting GL WandGL reports can easily be extended to include forforbudget entry. budget entry. Load budget parameters for Budget update

Optional parameters for Budget Journals

Get Balance function

Journal Category

Budget Name

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Budget models can be distributed individually to budget owners for budget entry via email, or mass created and distributed using the included Report Manager Functionality. Budget Wand Budget models can and be decentralised distributeduploading. individually to budget owners for budget entry via email, or will support both central mass created and distributed using the included Report Manager Functionality. Budget Wand will support both central and decentralised uploading.

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Load Budget Function

New Features in Version 5

Budget collection templates are built around the Load Budget Function, allowing active linking of budget entry cells to a particular budget and account. Once values have been entered they can be submitted for Validation and Upload.

• Create code combination functionality • Budget values: Enter as posivite or negative option • Automatic journal posting • Auto start journal import

Validate & Upload Range, Sheet or All workbooks This process validates cells containing Load Budget formulae. Once complete, the user can upload the values into Oracle and automatically initiate the concurrent requests for budget journal upload, or budget value override. The validation process will check and report on the following errors. Function based validations

Server side pre-load validations

Budget Org exists

Segment security rule test

Budget Org active

Load budget formula is unique

Budget name valid

CCID allows budgeting

Budget not frozen

Account is enabled

Budget active

Account is active

Budget input value validity

Currency is valid Account assigned to Budget Org

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Validate & Upload Range, Sheet or All Workbooks

This process validates cells containing Load Budget formulae. Once complete, the user can upload the values into Oracle and Validate & Upload initiate Range, Sheet All workbooksrequests for budget journal automatically the or concurrent upload, or budget valueLoad override. TheOnce validation process will This process validates cells containing Budget formulae. complete, the user can upload the values into Oracle and automatically initiate the concurrent requests for budget journal upload, check and report on the following errors. or budget value override. The validation process will check and report on the following errors. Function based validations

Server side pre-load validations

Budget Org exists

Segment security rule test

Budget Org active

Load budget formula is unique

Budget name valid

CCID allows budgeting

Budget not frozen

Account is enabled

Budget active

Account is active

Budget input value validity

Currency is valid

Benefits • Easy to use and flexible • No implementation • Rapid deployment • Comprehensive modelling capability • Reusable templates • Refreshable templates • Minimal training • Minimal IT involvement • Faster budgeting, forecasting cycles

Availability

Account assigned to Budget Org

• Supports Oracle 11i/R12 • Included with Wands 5 • Licensed as a cost plus option

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“Budget Wand is much simpler to use than ADI when loading budget amounts into Oracle financials.” Budget Administrator Avista Corporation

As Budget Wand is Excel based, minimal training and IT involvement is required.

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Additional Solutions

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In addition to General Ledger reporting, Excel4apps offers two additional solutions: Budget Wand and Reports Wand.

GL Wand 5

Reports Wand 5 (Coming Soon)

Excel-based financial reporting solution for Oracle E-Business Suite

Manipulating data in real-time from Oracle areas such as Projects, Supply Chain or HR

GL Wand 5 is in a new Java based framework and enables highly efficient and secure financial reporting, shorter month ends, and faster refreshes with ad-hoc inquiry and drill downs.

Reports Wand for Excel based real-time Oracle reporting offers incredible flexibility in terms of filtering, sorting, formatting and refreshing realtime data into Excel from any Oracle module.

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For More Information www.excel4apps.com/contact E-mail [email protected] Excel4apps is a best-in-class provider of Excelbased reporting, inquiry, and budget-loading software for Oracle and SAP. Designed for finance professionals, its award-winning GL Wand, Reports Wand and Budget Wand products easily and securely deliver realtime ERP data using Microsoft Excel® to save reporting time and effort. Excel4apps serves over 13,000 Oracle and SAP users in 62 countries, with offices in Australia, the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, and South Africa.

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