Organizations who leverage Oracle Hyperion EPM for financial consolidation, business planning, reporting and analytic needs are at a critical crossroad. Version 11.1.2.4 Premier support ends as of December 2021. The go-forward path…

Organizations who leverage Oracle Hyperion EPM for financial consolidation, business planning, reporting and analytic needs are at a critical crossroad. Version 11.1.2.4 Premier support ends as of December 2021 – this means: Use…

Certent Transforms ESMA/ESEF Compliance with its Intelligent Reporting Platform Certent Disclosure Management’s new ESMA/ESEF reporting platform takes the pain out of regulatory reporting with simple, intuitive system guidance Roseville, CA,…

Keith F. McDermott, CPA keith@goalgetters.com Alex C. Leung, CPA, CA alex@goalgetters.com About CFOConnect Welcome to our new article series about the future of the CFO role.  While much is being…

Recently, we had the opportunity to sit down with Brad White, TGG’s FP&A Practice Lead, to explore why and when organisations would consider consolidating multiple Hyperion Planning (“HP”) applications, how to go…

Finance Business Partnering Long gone are the days of highly compartmentalized organizations where duties are divided, and teams work in silos.  We now dawn on the era where orchestrated collaboration…

FSN’s 2018 research entitled Innovation in Reporting highlights the crucial importance of data management and governance in either stifling or accelerating innovation in financial and management reporting. The report defines…

After much anticipation, the SEC announced that it is moving its voluntary filing program related to Inline XBRL to a mandatory one. Operating companies and mutual funds will be required…

Earlier this year, I provided a report on the introduction of Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) at the Collaborate2016 conference. You can find that report here. Since…

TGG (The Goal Getters) have touched down in the Windy City for this years Kscope16 Conference!  This is the place to learn from the world’s leading experts on Oracle Hyperion…

The “Shellshock” vulnerability affects a utility frequently included in Linux or related operating systems.  The utility is called “bash”.  It can be tricked into performing admin-only actions by non-admin users.…

The TGG crew headed off to Seattle this year to Seattle for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference  in search for the ultimate coffee run at the very first Starbucks cafe – where its…

Time is an extremely valuable commodity for finance professionals, particularly when they are “under the gun” to meet regulatory filing dates, or re-forecast financial projections for its executive stakeholders.

Possibly one of the biggest security threats in the Internet’s history, the Heartbleed bug (Technical ID: CVE-2014-0160) is a flaw that hackers can take advantage of to obtain unauthorized access to your online accounts potentially granting them access to sensitive information such as emails, private financial data, personal data, passwords, and credit card information.