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Data security and controls are a growing area of importance in the world of modern finance, and there are different methods that can be taken to improve your information security. To set the stage we are going to start this post off with a description of two separate home security scenarios: Your home comes equipped

Each month, Oracle EPM Cloud releases a list of updates to each of the products in the EPM Cloud Suite. The patches are first deployed to Development environments (occurred on June 4th) and two weeks later to Production environments (June 18th after 22:00 UTC). Below are some of the highlights of changes made to your Oracle EPM Cloud Products:

Previously, we discussed the idea of Finance Business Partnering, highlighting the growing trend of finance needing to actively collaborate with the broader business function to truly drive the business. The onset of the pandemic in 2020 put the importance of Finance Business partnering and xP&A (Extended Planning and Analysis) directly into the spotlight. Now, more than ever,

Multi-calendar reporting is a common Financial Reporting requirement where the fiscal year ends for submitting entities are different than the consolidated group or intermediary sub-group fiscal year end.  For example, the consolidated group fiscal year end could be December 31 while some submitting entities or intermediary sub-groups have a March 31 or June 30 fiscal

You are certain the Essbase Calc Script you’ve written in Financial Consolidation and Close (FCC) is correct but can’t figure out why it’s not working? The issue is likely due to missing blocks. What are Blocks? Every combination of stored sparse dimension is a block and every block contains all of the dense dimension members.