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Agenda

         1:00                    Opening Comments – Peter Digby, President, PAC

         1:15                    Evolution of BPC at Bell Media

         1:45                    CPM Today and Tomorrow

         2:15                    Kinross Streamlines Consolidation

         2:45                    Break and Refreshments

         3:15                    BPC integration with Business Intelligence
                                 SAP Disclosure Management

         3:45                    Open Forum

         4:30                    Networking Reception – (Draw for Playbook!!!)




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Canadian consulting firm focused exclusively on SAP Enterprise
Performance Management solutions

Implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
since 2003

Currently support the majority of Canadian customers using BPC

Consultants located across Canada

Consultants have Finance background, CA, CGA, CMA, CPA

Services include: Evaluation, Design, Implementation, Project
Management, Training, and Support
The evolution of BPC at Bell Media



Hanford Tang - Director, Business Planning
                 hanford.tang@bellmedia.ca
Brad Peiries   - Manager, Finance
                 brad.peiries@bellmedia.ca
2011 05 19
Agenda

       Goal: To present a high level view of changes and modifications
             made to BPC (Outlooksoft) at Bell Media over the years.


       •   Company/ Systems Overview

       •   Design Approach/ Modifications

       •   Sample reports and templates

       •   Questions




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Television

    Radio




    Company Overview
                 Canada’s premier multimedia company

                 • Assets in television, radio and digital
                 • 28 conventional stations, A channels and CTV, the lead broadcaster of the
                   London 2012 Olympic Games
                 • 29 specialty channels, including TSN, Canada’s #1 specialty channel and
                   RDS, Canada’s #1 French-language specialty channel
                 • 33 radio stations
                 • Dozens of websites including the Sympatico.ca portal

                 Bell Media is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE




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Television

     Radio




    Framework/Environment
    Business Overview               Business Process              Output
    • 3 Distinct Business Types     • Annual 12-months Plan        • Legal vs Management vs
    • 12+ Clusters                         Common
                                    • Monthly Forecast   Chart of   CRTC Reporting 12-
                                                                            Annual
    • 50+ Legal Entities
                                              Accounts
                                    • 5-year Long Range Plan                  months plan
                                                                  • Variance Analysis
                                           1000+ Balance sheet
    • 2000+ Cost & Profit Centres   • Payroll Budgeting by        • Audit Leadsheets
                                              Accounts
                                      Employees
    • Multiple Locations                   1500+ P&L Accounts• Ad hoc Reporting
    • 6000+ Active Employees
                                            Bottom-up budget
                                    BPC Setup Bottom-up budget
    BPC Setup (Hardware)                    approach, high-level User Base
                                              approach, high-level
                                    • 4 Applications
    • Version 7.0 SP6/ Microsoft            guideline only,       • 50 Corporate Accounting
                                    • 19 Dimensions (with only,
                                              guideline
    • SQL 2008                              multiple iterations
                                      alternate hierarchies)                2 Reporting
                                              multiple iterations
                                    • 4 Secured Dimensions        • 150+ Finance Users
    • Network Load Balancer                                                 Hierarchy –
                                    • 45 Million+ Records
                                    • 6 million GL transactions             Legal vs.
                                                                  • 300+ Departmental
    • Multiple Web Servers
                                    • Common Chart of Accounts              Management
    • Dedicate File                 • 1,000+ Balance Sheets         Managers
                                      Accounts
      Server/Scheduler
                                    • 1,500+ P&L Accounts

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What drove the change?
          End of product life cycle/End of support


          Part of a system upgrade/conversion


          Continuous improvement


          Client requests


          Acquisition/Increase user base



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Television

     Radio




 Important Milestones

                  March   March   August   October   June   September September   October
                  2005    2006     2006     2006     2007     2007      2009       2010




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Television

      Radio




  Before and After
Pre-BPC
                                              Custom                      E-mail
Budgeting process        Lawson               Access
                                                        Excel Budget
                                                                       Distribution      User
                                                         Templates                    Submission
                                             Database                   to Users




BPC – Initial Implementation
Budgeting process




                         Budget/ Forecast


                         Actual (nightly load)




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Television

     Radio




 Before and After
                                    Current Budget Cycle/Data Flow




                     Actual (employee info)




                  Actual (payroll data)




                                   Budget/ Forecast


                                   Actual (real time)




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Television

     Radio




 Real-time data transfer
                        Date & Time Stamp

     Lawson G/L                            Oracle                         BPC
                                           Streams

             • Lawson                           • Summarize                      • Fact tables
               database                           Lawson
               tables                             tables into
                                                  Views




                                 Pro                               Cons

                  • Users can access information       • More backend maintenance
                    quickly
                                                       • Increase dependencies
                  • Reliance on BPC as a                 between systems
                    reporting analytical tool


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Television

     Radio




 Breaking up apps into multiple apps

                                                  Finance Apps
                                                  8 dimensions

                        Finance
                                                                  6 shared dimensions
                          App
                       13 dimensions               Buddetail
                                                    Apps
                                                   8 dimensions




                                 Pro                              Cons

                  • Smaller Fact Tables           • More application to process
                                                  • More security access to manage
                  • Reduce number of dimensions   • Need to maintain script logic to
                    for users                       ensure applications are in sync


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Television

     Radio




 Non-Wage Budget Input Template



                  Cover Page


                                      Detail Page



                               • Index page with zero suppress – only active
                                 accounts are shown
                               • Data dump of pertinent data in a hidden sheet
                               • Template works when offline from BPC
                               • Budget Detail sent to Buddetail apps, summary
                                 sent to Finance via script logic
                               • Drill through of Actuals to Lawson
                  Index Page
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Television

     Radio




 Payroll Input Template
                                            Calculation




                  Cover Page




                                •   New Employees can be added
                                •   Maxing out of benefits (CPP/EI) etc
                                •   Employee transfers handled in backend
                                •   Details sent to Payroll apps, summary
                                    sent to Finance via script logic


                   User Input
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Television

     Radio




 Comparative Report


                                                                    Report
                             Cover Page




                                                    Index Page




             • Cover Page to allow users to specify expansion and
               selection
             • Timer to indicate time to generate report
             • Users can drill through to Lawson actuals
               transactions and Budget details

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Overall Design Approach
       User friendly, ease of use
       • Consistent look and feel across all reports/templates
       • Reports and templates have cover page for users to
         update/enter parameters
       • Extensive use of drop down list, buttons and advance Excel
         functionalities

       Combine multiple reports into one
       • Reports serve multiple functions

       Increase users productivity/satisfaction level
       • Minimize report runtime
       • Real time data transfer

       Take baby steps
       Think outside the box

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Television

     Radio




 Future Plans

              Integrating non-monetary info & industry metrics




              G/L conversion from Lawson to SAP




              BPC conversion from MS v7.0 to Netweaver v 7.5



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Television

     Radio




 Questions




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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation Roadmap

Rick Bryant – EPM Center Of Excellence
May 2011
Agenda


SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Roadmap
SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management Overview
Q&A




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© SAP 2010/ Page 23
The ‘New Normal’


   Volatility in markets,
 commodity prices and       Pressure on
                  stocks    margins




   Increased                        Increasing
focus on risk                       globalization




  Regulation is here to     New – and
                  stay      potentially
                            disruptive -
                            technologies
Barrier to Increased Performance
   Gap between strategy and execution




                                Execution
© SAP 2010/ Page 25
Barrier to Increased Performance
   Gap between strategy and execution
                                 Strategy   Strategic Alignment




                                Execution
© SAP 2010/ Page 26
Barrier to Increased Performance
   Lack of balance between risk and opportunity
                                  Strategy            Strategic Alignment

                                                   Predictable Performance




                      Risks                       Opportunities




                                 Execution
© SAP 2010/ Page 27
Barrier to Increased Performance
   Lack of visibility through entire cycle
                                     Strategy       Strategic Alignment

                                                 Predictable Performance

                                                    Confident Decisions




                      Risks                     Opportunities




                                    Execution
© SAP 2010/ Page 28
Business Analytics Solutions from SAP
Detailed version

                                                         Analytic Applications
                                                 By Industry                       By LoB
                                               Financial Services        Service, Sales, and Marketing
                                          Public Sector and Healthcare            Procurement
     Enterprise Performance                       Manufacturing                   Supply Chain               Governance, Risk,
          Management                          Consumer Products                     Finance                   and Compliance
                                                 Retail and Telco                 Sustainability
                          Planning,           Utilities and more….            IT, HR, and more…
     Strategy           Budgeting, and                                                                   Enterprise GRC    Access Risk
    Management           Forecasting                                                                                       Management

     Profitability         Financial                                                                      Global Trade      Continuous
      and Cost           Consolidation                                                                      Services        Transaction
    Management                                                                                                              Monitoring

                Disclosure
               Management




       Business Intelligence                                                                               Enterprise Information
                                                                                                               Management
    Reporting and       Dashboards and                                                                       Data          Master Data
      Analysis           Visualization                                                                      Services       Management


   Data Exploration           Mobile                                                                         Event           Content
                                                                                                           Processing      Management


                BI Platform                                                                                        Information
                                                                                                                   Governance
                                                              Data Warehousing
                                         High-performance       Enterprise Data         Data Mart
                                         Analytic Solutions      Warehousing            Solutions




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Key Themes for Enterprise Performance Management


                                                       Harmonize…same user experience, same languages, same
                                                       visualizations, same platforms


                                                       Connect…to SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, SAP ERP, SAP
                                                       NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions and the other
                                                       SAP BusinessObjects EPM applications while remaining open and
                                                       heterogeneous to non-SAP sources and technologies


                                                       Extend…each product with innovative and customer
                                                       enhancements so that they remain best in class solutions




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© SAP 2010/ Page 30          provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement
Enterprise Performance Management for Finance,
   Summary Roadmap
                                                             Ramp-up          Mid Term (Plan)
                                             Short Term (Plan)               In memory enabled EPM suite
                                                                             for both finance and
                                             Next generation productivity    operations
                                             with harmonized UI
                                                                             Additional risk-adjusted
                                                                             performance management
           EPM 7.5 - Today                   Extended closed-loop            processes
                                             performance management
           Integration with SAP              process                         New industry and finance line
           BusinessObjects BI , SAP                                          of business solutions
           NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP          All existing EPM applications
           applications                      move forward into the release   Continued investment in
                                                                             customer innovations
           Introduced new EPM and            New industry and finance line
           GRC cross-application             of business solutions           On-Premise and On-Demand
           scenarios                                                         deployments
                                             Product enhancements and
           Product Innovations delivered     extended technology support
           best of breed solutions with
           best in class suite integration




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© SAP 2010/ Page 31
Planned Innovations: Manage Financial and
Operational Performance Enterprise Performance Management


 Enhancements to improve
                                            Solution Enhancements             Key Benefits
strategy management, planning,
consolidations, and operational and        Common User Experience         Increase productivity
profitability analysis                                                    with unified user
                                           Common SAP product
                                           standards                      experience
 SAP BusinessObjects enterprise                                           Open to SAP and non-
performance management (EPM)               Integration with the SAP       SAP sources
solutions enable organizational            BusinessObjects Financial      Extend to the SAP ERP
alignment, visibility, and confidence to   Information Management         application; the SAP
                                           application                    NetWeaver technology
provide optimal control and improved
effectiveness for competitive              Enhanced connectivity to SAP   platform; SAP
advantage.                                 BusinessObjects business       BusinessObjects
                                           intelligence (BI) solutions    governance, risk, and
                                           Enhanced integration with      compliance (GRC)
                                           SAP Business Suite             solutions; and
                                           applications                   BusinessObjects BI
                                                                          solutions
                                           Enhanced cascading             Improved control and
                                           scorecards and initiatives     confidence in financial
                                           New industry solutions and     reporting and planning
                                           accelerators                   processes



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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the
   Microsoft platform 10.x
          InfoView / SAP Portal / Browsers / Enterprise Portals                                       Harmonized Web User Interface
                                                                              Harmonize               Common SAP Product Standards
      SAP BusinessObjects BI           MS Office    Workspace/ UI
                                                                                                      New EPM add-in for Microsoft Office

       Harmonized Web User Interface / Common EPM Add-in                                              Full support for Microsoft Office 2010 and
                                                                                                      embedded portal scenarios
                                                                                Connect               Enhanced SAP EPM and source system
             XBRL Publishing              Strategy Management
                                                                                                      integration via Financial Information
                                                                                                      Management
     Planning and Consolidation
      version for the Microsoft           Financial Consolidation                                  10.0
              platform
                                                                                                      Support for VMware use in production
                                           Profitability and Cost                                     environments*
               Intercompany                   Management                                              Full Unicode and 64 bit support
                                                                                                      Automated variance analysis
                      Financial Information Management
                                                                                 Extend               Enhanced consolidation capabilities
                                                                                                      Performance enhancements
         SAP                Business
                                           Non-SAP sources and                                     10.1
      NetWeaver              Suite
                                                platforms                                             Further support for Microsoft technologies
         BW
                                                                                                      including Microsoft SharePoint
                                                                                                      Additional planning and performance
                                                                                                      enhancements
                                                   *Virtualization/VMware support is available in 7.x with limited testing –
                                                   more testing will be done in 10.0. Details can be found here:
                                                   https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1098847
© SAP 2011/ Page 33
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,
   version for SAP NetWeaver 10.x
                                                                                                              Harmonized Web User Interface
          InfoView / SAP Portal / Browsers / Enterprise Portals
                                                                                     Harmonize                Common SAP Product Standards
      SAP BusinessObjects BI               MS Office       Workspace/ UI                                      New EPM add-in for Microsoft Office
                                                                                                          10.0
        Harmonized Web User Interface / Common EPM Add-in                                                     Enhanced native SAP ERP and NetWeaver BW
                                                                                                              integration as well as SAP EPM integration via
                                                                                       Connect                Financial Information Management
             XBRL Publishing                    Strategy Management
                                                                                                              Utilize native SAP NetWeaver authentication
                                                                                                          10.1
            Risk Management                        Process Control                                            Support for Matrix Security

                                                                                                          10.0
     Planning and Consolidation                Financial Consolidation                                        Support for VMware use in production
     version for SAP NetWeaver
                                                                                                              environments*
                                                                                                              Enhanced consolidation capabilities
               Intercompany                     Profitability and Cost
                                                   Management                                                 Easier deployment and distribution of reports
                                                                                                              with briefing books (part of new EPM add-in for
                                                                                        Extend                Office)
                       Financial Information Management
                                                                                                          10.1
                                                                                                              Enhanced driver-based planning and scenario
                                                                                                              planning
         SAP                  Business
                                                Non-SAP sources and                                           Automated variance analysis
      NetWeaver                Suite
                                                     platforms
         BW
                                                                                                              Graphical calculation modeling
                                                                                                              Enhanced XBRL publishing capabilities
                        *Virtualization/VMware support is available in 7.x with limited testing – more testing will be done in 10.0.
                        Details can be found here: https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1098847
© SAP 2011 / Page 34
Agenda


SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Roadmap
SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management Overview
Q &A




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Accelerating the Last Mile of Finance Reduces Costs




“
Tools that can help coordinate the
financial statement, regulatory
reporting and investor report
production activities in one central
product that can provide a
collaborative environment for all
contributing parties can reduce
process costs by up to 30%.

                                           ”
Gartner Research
Financial Statement Production Solutions
Increase Market Penetration
John E. Van Decker
November 2010




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SAP’s Acquisition of cundus, AG Assets

In December 2010, SAP announced and closed its
acquisition of disclosure management solutions from    Sample Joint Customers
cundus AG                                                 SAP and cundus

cundus AG
  Headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, with
  subsidiaries in Switzerland and the UK
  A certified SAP partner which provides BI and EPM
  consulting services and related software solutions

SAP has acquired:
  cundus Financial Statement Factory – now SAP
  BusinessObjects Disclosure Management
  cundus informationCollector – now SAP
  BusinessObjects Notes Management

Solutions are 100% complementary to SAP’s existing
EPM and ERP solutions, and are already in use by a
number of SAP’s customers

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Collaborative Disclosure Management in the
Accounting and Financial Close End-to-End Process

                                       Financial            Entity             Corporate         Reporting and
                                      Accounting            Close                Close            Disclosure

                                                                                                      Reporting
                                      General Ledger                                                 and Analysis
As part of the enterprise                                  Entity Close
                                                           Management
performance
management (EPM)                         Sub-Ledgers
solutions, the new
collaborative disclosure
                                                              Intercompany
management solutions                                                                 Consolidation
                                                              Reconciliation
complete the end-to-end
accounting and financial
close process
                                                                                  Notes                Disclosure
                                                                                Management            Management




               Financial                                         Internal Controls
                  Close
             Governance                                Master Data Governance for Financials


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SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management
Reduce the time, risk and cost of regulatory disclosures


Speed and flexibility
  Accelerate the generation of disclosure statements
  Integrate data for a single view across the
  organization
  Optimize the close from source to digital disclosure

Collaboration
  Assign disclosure responsibility to distributed teams
  Automate integration and data flow
  Designed for ownership by finance professionals

Compliance and control
  In-house production of trusted financial statements
  Support multiple financial and regulatory statements
  Enable creation of XBRL-based statements




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Q&A

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Thank You!


Contact information:

Rick Bryant
Email: rick.bryant@sap.com
Phone: +1 203 414-8783
Kinross improves reporting timelines & accuracy
                with SAP-BPC




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Kinross Gold Corporation
Quick facts




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Corporate profile

• Canadian based gold mining company with mines & projects in the
   USA, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Ghana, Mauritania & Russia
• Employees: Approximately 7,000 worldwide
• Strategic focus is to maximize net asset value & cash flow per share
   through a four-point plan:
    •   Delivering mine & financial performance
    •   Attracting & retaining the best people in the industry
    •   Achieving operating excellence through the “Kinross Way”
    •   Delivering future value through profitable growth




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Operations & growth projects

      White Gold                                                                       Dvoinoye
                                                                                           Kupol
 Fort Knox


                          Toronto
  Kettle River-Buckhorn

    Round Mountain


                                                    Tasiast


                                                          Chirano

                   Fruta del Norte
                                     Crixas
                                         Paracatu




              La Coipa
                                                                    Corporate office
             Maricunga                                              Operations
                                                                    Growth projects


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2010 performance & highlights

• Production: 2.3 million gold equivalent ounces
• Revenue: USD 3 billion




• Acquired Red Back Mining
• Increased revenue, cash flow & earnings
• Advanced growth projects
• Expanded gold reserves & resources



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Challenges & opportunities

•   Replace manually intensive, spreadsheet-
    driven financial consolidation process of 165
    legal entities


•   Improve financial & operational data
    availability & insight across the company


•   Accelerate & streamline reporting



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Objectives

• Speed financial close cycle using an
  enterprise solution that supports
  automation, manages diverse financial
  systems and is highly user intuitive


• Enable easy access to financial and
  operational data via a centralized
  information repository that enforces
  data integrity


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Kinross Advanced Reporting System
KARS implementation




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Implementation

• External auditors, KPMG, assisted with selection process:
   •   Enterprise wide solution to meet both financial and operational requirements
   •   Single, reliable and centralized source of information that everyone in the
       company could access
   •   Highly intuitive and provide familiar interfaces, including Microsoft Office
   •   Scalable to support the company’s growth

• Implementation partner: Performance Analytics Corporation
• Two phases
   •   External financial reporting
   •   Internal operational reporting



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Project plan
    19-Jun-08                                                                                               31-Mar-09

   Overview




              Scrub Data



                                   Consolidation
                                   Adjustments




                                                      Parallel sub-consolidations




                                                                                            KARS sub-consolidations




                                                   Project Coordination


 JUN 1     JUL 1           AUG 1      SEP 1        OCT 1      NOV 1      DEC 1      JAN 1     FEB 1     MAR 1         APR 1


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Project team

• Project managers
   •   PAC
   •   Kinross – Corporate Finance
   •   Kinross - IT

• Consultants
   •   2 x PAC

• KARS team
   •   4 x Kinross Corporate Finance, including system administrator
   •   Key business users across company

• Bi-weekly status conference calls

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Consulting

• Application design
• Fully calculated cash flow
• Elimination of investments
• Gold equivalent ratio by month, quarter & YTD
• Imperial to metric conversion for USA sites
• Reports and input schedules
• Custom journal report
• Interfaces



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BPC applications

• DailyRate: Daily currency rates, metal & oil prices.
• Rate: End of month & monthly average for Fx rates & prices.
• Finance: Consolidation of financial & operational data.
• Ownership: Entity ownership data.
• Operations: Operational/production data.




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BPC applications – continued...
• Dimensions (18)
   •   Shared e.g. Category
   •   Unique e.g. Account
   •   Alternate hierarchies e.g. Entity
        1.   Legal
        2.   Management
        3.   Geographic
        4.   Segment

 DailyRate             Rate              Finance    Ownership   Operations




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Training & documentation

• Developed
   •   1½ day training course
   •   User guides for Operations & Finance
   •   ½ day report writing course post ‘go-live’

• On-site training
   •   Reno for all US sites
   •   Chile
   •   Brazil
   •   Ecuador
   •   Canada: Toronto & Vancouver



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Milestones

• Monthly reporting implemented April 2009
• “Go live” for external reporting – Q2 2009
• Financial statement preparation for Q2, Q3 & Q4 based on
   KARS data
• Legacy/Excel consolidation run in parallel for Q2, Q3 & Q4
   to verify KARS data – discontinued Q1 2010



                                                 KARS
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Definitions & troubleshooting
• Defintions                            • Troubleshooting
   •   KARSMA                                 •    My KAR’s broken

   •   Dangling investment                    •    Is KARS down?
                                              •    KARS froze up
   •   Confusion
                                              •    My P&L appears truncated
   •   TVX spider web
                                              •    I can enter it but it refuses to post
   •   Optimize your data base
                                              •    I sent that part of the email telepathically
   •   PEBKAC                                 •    I loaded this yesterday but it apparently did not “take”
                                              •    After you are on the verge of giving up, the system
                                                   finally brings up the login screen only to later flash the
                                                   blue bar death warning “The system cannot
                                                   download information from the
                                                   KARS.KINROSSGOLD.COM server.”



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“Then” quarterly consolidation process
• First collected at a regional level
• Highly summarized financial data
• Submitted to headquarters 10 days after financial
   reporting cut-off date
• Headquarters took a week to generate consolidated
   P&L & balance sheet
• Another week to issue consolidated cash flow report
• Request for more detail placed additional burden on
   regions and/or local business units



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“Now” monthly close process
  •   WD3
       • AP & AR closed 8am
       • Ounces produced input & transferred to Finance
  •   WD6
       • Source GL (JD Edwards) closed 8am & data loaded into BPC
       • Operations data transferred to Finance at 3pm
  •   WD8
       • Balance sheet continuities completed – cash flow completed
       • Supplementary input schedules completed
       • All entities submitted by COB
  •   WD9
       • Operations results issued to SLT
       • Regional signoff – KARS locked for the period
  •   WD10
       • Consolidated results issued to Executive Team

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Results
• Rapid external financial reporting
    •   First time in company’s history that audited quarterly financial statements were
        released at the same time as publicly announced quarterly financial results
    •   Reduced reporting cycle timeline

• 50% faster for completing consolidated balance sheet, profit & loss
   and cash flow statements
• Business users can focus more time on analytics & operational
   improvements
• Consolidated ‘monthly’ internal reporting
• Delivered on budget & on time


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Post ‘go-live’
• Planning: Annual budgets & quarterly forecasts
• IFRS reporting
• User base increased from 60, in 2008, to 150 today
• Enhanced reporting & analysis
   •   Corporate responsibility reporting e.g. Consumption of carbon-emitting substances
   •   Intercompany matching
   •   Quarterly site conference call packs

• Enhanced automation
   •   JD Edwards interface
   •   Interfaces between BPC applications
   •   Interfaces to split financial & operational data from 100% entities to 50% entities



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Next steps

• Upgrade to BPC v7.5 and SQL 2008 in June 2011
• Adopt new common chart of accounts from JD Edwards 9.0
• Enhanced reporting to senior leadership team
• Interface with Xeras
• XBRL publishing




            Canadian BPC User Group Conference             63
            19 May 2011
Kinross Advanced Reporting System
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Insert presentation title here   65
Month date, year
Refreshments 2:45 – 3:15



       Performance Analytics Employees:

               Peter Digby - President

               Niraj Dalmia, CA - BPC Application Consultant

               Graham Finney, CMA - Vice President Services

               Blair Hubbard, CMA - BPC Application Architect

               Jeffrey Kinch, CFP, PMP, CMA - Services Director

               Justin McNeely - Account Executive

               Lia Quarisa, CA - BPC Application Consultant

               Chelsea Wu – BI/BPC Consultant

       SAP Employees:

               Rick Bryant - EPM Centre of Excellence

               Tony Wright - EPM Solutions Consultant

               Patrick Fish – Solutions Principal

               Sam Fursey – Director, Maintenance Go-To Market

               Tom Stevenson – Account Executive
© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.                               66
Agenda

         1:00                    Opening Comments – Peter Digby, President, PAC

         1:15                    Evolution of BPC at Bell Media

         1:45                    CPM Today and Tomorrow

         2:15                    Kinross Streamlines Consolidation

         2:45                    Break and Refreshments

         3:15                    BPC integration with Business Intelligence
                                 SAP Disclosure Management

         3:45                    Open Forum

         4:30                    Networking Reception – (Draw for Playbook!!!)




© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.                                               67
SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions
The Right Tools For the Job

                                      Data             Advanced        Interactive    Dashboards &
                                                                                                      Reporting
                                      Exploration      Analysis        Analysis       Visualization
      Professionally
      Informed



     Executives,
     Managers
                                                                                                      Crystal
                                                                                                      Reports
                                                                                       Xcelsius
    Information
    Consumers
                                       Explorer
                                                                       Web
                                                                       Intelligence


     Business                                         Voyager
     Analysts

                                                      Predictive
       Technically                                    Workbench
       Capable

                              Full                  Interactive Experience, Responsiveness                 Limited




© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.                                                                                  68
Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects
Disclosure Management
Reduce the time, risk and cost of regulatory disclosures

                Tony Wright – SAP EPM Solutions Consultant
SAP Canada
May 19, 2011
Open Forum




             Dashboards

             Leveraging SAP Support

             Performance Tuning

             BPC Training




© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.   70
Open Forum




             Dashboards               -   Chelsea Wu – PAC

             Leveraging SAP Support   -   Sam Fursey – SAP

             Performance Tuning       -   Blair Hubbard - PAC

             BPC Training             -   Jeffrey Kinch – PAC




© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.                             71
Open Forum




             Dashboards

                    Integration with BPC

                    Understanding metrics/KPI

                      usage type – graphs, what-if, report or BPF
                    launcher



             Chelsea Wu, PAC BI/BPC Consultant
© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.                                 72
Open Forum




             Leveraging SAP Support
             New SAP Continuous Quality Checks for BPC

                    EarlyWatch Check

                    CQC for Implementation / Going Live

                    More to come

             Increased Solution Manager Integration

                    Allows remote services to be delivered efficiently

             Expert Guided Implementations

                    Included with SAP Enterprise Support

                    Help you get Solution Manager up and running quickly


             Sam Fursey, SAP Director, Maintenance Go-To-
             Market
© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.                                        73
Open Forum




             Performance Tuning

                    Architecture

                    Logic

                    Report & Input Schedule design

                    Partitioning

                    Hardware

             Blair Hubbard, PAC Application Architect
© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.                     74
Open Forum




             BPC Training

                    Format

                    Delivery vehicle

                    Content




             Jeffrey Kinch, PAC Services Director
© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.                 75
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Canadian BPC User Conference Agenda

  • 1. Canadian BPC User Conference
  • 2. EXPLORE EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE GET CURRENT VOICE RUN SMARTER LEARN AWARE SHARE EXPERIENCES CLEVER FROM EXCHANGE OTHERS IDEAS © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 2
  • 3. Agenda 1:00 Opening Comments – Peter Digby, President, PAC 1:15 Evolution of BPC at Bell Media 1:45 CPM Today and Tomorrow 2:15 Kinross Streamlines Consolidation 2:45 Break and Refreshments 3:15 BPC integration with Business Intelligence SAP Disclosure Management 3:45 Open Forum 4:30 Networking Reception – (Draw for Playbook!!!) © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 3
  • 4. Canadian consulting firm focused exclusively on SAP Enterprise Performance Management solutions Implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) since 2003 Currently support the majority of Canadian customers using BPC Consultants located across Canada Consultants have Finance background, CA, CGA, CMA, CPA Services include: Evaluation, Design, Implementation, Project Management, Training, and Support
  • 5. The evolution of BPC at Bell Media Hanford Tang - Director, Business Planning hanford.tang@bellmedia.ca Brad Peiries - Manager, Finance brad.peiries@bellmedia.ca 2011 05 19
  • 6. Agenda Goal: To present a high level view of changes and modifications made to BPC (Outlooksoft) at Bell Media over the years. • Company/ Systems Overview • Design Approach/ Modifications • Sample reports and templates • Questions 6
  • 7. Television Radio Company Overview Canada’s premier multimedia company • Assets in television, radio and digital • 28 conventional stations, A channels and CTV, the lead broadcaster of the London 2012 Olympic Games • 29 specialty channels, including TSN, Canada’s #1 specialty channel and RDS, Canada’s #1 French-language specialty channel • 33 radio stations • Dozens of websites including the Sympatico.ca portal Bell Media is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE 7
  • 8. Television Radio Framework/Environment Business Overview Business Process Output • 3 Distinct Business Types • Annual 12-months Plan • Legal vs Management vs • 12+ Clusters Common • Monthly Forecast Chart of CRTC Reporting 12- Annual • 50+ Legal Entities Accounts • 5-year Long Range Plan months plan • Variance Analysis 1000+ Balance sheet • 2000+ Cost & Profit Centres • Payroll Budgeting by • Audit Leadsheets Accounts Employees • Multiple Locations 1500+ P&L Accounts• Ad hoc Reporting • 6000+ Active Employees Bottom-up budget BPC Setup Bottom-up budget BPC Setup (Hardware) approach, high-level User Base approach, high-level • 4 Applications • Version 7.0 SP6/ Microsoft guideline only, • 50 Corporate Accounting • 19 Dimensions (with only, guideline • SQL 2008 multiple iterations alternate hierarchies) 2 Reporting multiple iterations • 4 Secured Dimensions • 150+ Finance Users • Network Load Balancer Hierarchy – • 45 Million+ Records • 6 million GL transactions Legal vs. • 300+ Departmental • Multiple Web Servers • Common Chart of Accounts Management • Dedicate File • 1,000+ Balance Sheets Managers Accounts Server/Scheduler • 1,500+ P&L Accounts 8
  • 9. What drove the change? End of product life cycle/End of support Part of a system upgrade/conversion Continuous improvement Client requests Acquisition/Increase user base 9
  • 10. Television Radio Important Milestones March March August October June September September October 2005 2006 2006 2006 2007 2007 2009 2010 10
  • 11. Television Radio Before and After Pre-BPC Custom E-mail Budgeting process Lawson Access Excel Budget Distribution User Templates Submission Database to Users BPC – Initial Implementation Budgeting process Budget/ Forecast Actual (nightly load) 11
  • 12. Television Radio Before and After Current Budget Cycle/Data Flow Actual (employee info) Actual (payroll data) Budget/ Forecast Actual (real time) 12
  • 13. Television Radio Real-time data transfer Date & Time Stamp Lawson G/L Oracle BPC Streams • Lawson • Summarize • Fact tables database Lawson tables tables into Views Pro Cons • Users can access information • More backend maintenance quickly • Increase dependencies • Reliance on BPC as a between systems reporting analytical tool 13
  • 14. Television Radio Breaking up apps into multiple apps Finance Apps 8 dimensions Finance 6 shared dimensions App 13 dimensions Buddetail Apps 8 dimensions Pro Cons • Smaller Fact Tables • More application to process • More security access to manage • Reduce number of dimensions • Need to maintain script logic to for users ensure applications are in sync 14
  • 15. Television Radio Non-Wage Budget Input Template Cover Page Detail Page • Index page with zero suppress – only active accounts are shown • Data dump of pertinent data in a hidden sheet • Template works when offline from BPC • Budget Detail sent to Buddetail apps, summary sent to Finance via script logic • Drill through of Actuals to Lawson Index Page 15
  • 16. Television Radio Payroll Input Template Calculation Cover Page • New Employees can be added • Maxing out of benefits (CPP/EI) etc • Employee transfers handled in backend • Details sent to Payroll apps, summary sent to Finance via script logic User Input 16
  • 17. Television Radio Comparative Report Report Cover Page Index Page • Cover Page to allow users to specify expansion and selection • Timer to indicate time to generate report • Users can drill through to Lawson actuals transactions and Budget details 17
  • 18. Overall Design Approach User friendly, ease of use • Consistent look and feel across all reports/templates • Reports and templates have cover page for users to update/enter parameters • Extensive use of drop down list, buttons and advance Excel functionalities Combine multiple reports into one • Reports serve multiple functions Increase users productivity/satisfaction level • Minimize report runtime • Real time data transfer Take baby steps Think outside the box 18
  • 19. Television Radio Future Plans Integrating non-monetary info & industry metrics G/L conversion from Lawson to SAP BPC conversion from MS v7.0 to Netweaver v 7.5 19
  • 20. Television Radio Questions 20
  • 21. SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Roadmap Rick Bryant – EPM Center Of Excellence May 2011
  • 22. Agenda SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Roadmap SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management Overview Q&A © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 22
  • 23. Safe Harbor Statement The information in this presentation is confidential and proprietary to SAP and may not be disclosed without the permission of SAP. This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other service or subscription agreement with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation and SAP's strategy and possible future developments, products and or platforms directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. The information on this document is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. This document is for informational purposes and may not be incorporated into a contract. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document, except if such damages were caused by SAP intentionally or grossly negligent. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 23 © SAP 2010/ Page 23
  • 24. The ‘New Normal’ Volatility in markets, commodity prices and Pressure on stocks margins Increased Increasing focus on risk globalization Regulation is here to New – and stay potentially disruptive - technologies
  • 25. Barrier to Increased Performance Gap between strategy and execution Execution © SAP 2010/ Page 25
  • 26. Barrier to Increased Performance Gap between strategy and execution Strategy Strategic Alignment Execution © SAP 2010/ Page 26
  • 27. Barrier to Increased Performance Lack of balance between risk and opportunity Strategy Strategic Alignment Predictable Performance Risks Opportunities Execution © SAP 2010/ Page 27
  • 28. Barrier to Increased Performance Lack of visibility through entire cycle Strategy Strategic Alignment Predictable Performance Confident Decisions Risks Opportunities Execution © SAP 2010/ Page 28
  • 29. Business Analytics Solutions from SAP Detailed version Analytic Applications By Industry By LoB Financial Services Service, Sales, and Marketing Public Sector and Healthcare Procurement Enterprise Performance Manufacturing Supply Chain Governance, Risk, Management Consumer Products Finance and Compliance Retail and Telco Sustainability Planning, Utilities and more…. IT, HR, and more… Strategy Budgeting, and Enterprise GRC Access Risk Management Forecasting Management Profitability Financial Global Trade Continuous and Cost Consolidation Services Transaction Management Monitoring Disclosure Management Business Intelligence Enterprise Information Management Reporting and Dashboards and Data Master Data Analysis Visualization Services Management Data Exploration Mobile Event Content Processing Management BI Platform Information Governance Data Warehousing High-performance Enterprise Data Data Mart Analytic Solutions Warehousing Solutions © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 29
  • 30. Key Themes for Enterprise Performance Management Harmonize…same user experience, same languages, same visualizations, same platforms Connect…to SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions and the other SAP BusinessObjects EPM applications while remaining open and heterogeneous to non-SAP sources and technologies Extend…each product with innovative and customer enhancements so that they remain best in class solutions © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is 30 © SAP 2010/ Page 30 provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement
  • 31. Enterprise Performance Management for Finance, Summary Roadmap Ramp-up Mid Term (Plan) Short Term (Plan) In memory enabled EPM suite for both finance and Next generation productivity operations with harmonized UI Additional risk-adjusted performance management EPM 7.5 - Today Extended closed-loop processes performance management Integration with SAP process New industry and finance line BusinessObjects BI , SAP of business solutions NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP All existing EPM applications applications move forward into the release Continued investment in customer innovations Introduced new EPM and New industry and finance line GRC cross-application of business solutions On-Premise and On-Demand scenarios deployments Product enhancements and Product Innovations delivered extended technology support best of breed solutions with best in class suite integration © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 31 © SAP 2010/ Page 31
  • 32. Planned Innovations: Manage Financial and Operational Performance Enterprise Performance Management Enhancements to improve Solution Enhancements Key Benefits strategy management, planning, consolidations, and operational and Common User Experience Increase productivity profitability analysis with unified user Common SAP product standards experience SAP BusinessObjects enterprise Open to SAP and non- performance management (EPM) Integration with the SAP SAP sources solutions enable organizational BusinessObjects Financial Extend to the SAP ERP alignment, visibility, and confidence to Information Management application; the SAP application NetWeaver technology provide optimal control and improved effectiveness for competitive Enhanced connectivity to SAP platform; SAP advantage. BusinessObjects business BusinessObjects intelligence (BI) solutions governance, risk, and Enhanced integration with compliance (GRC) SAP Business Suite solutions; and applications BusinessObjects BI solutions Enhanced cascading Improved control and scorecards and initiatives confidence in financial New industry solutions and reporting and planning accelerators processes © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 32
  • 33. SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform 10.x InfoView / SAP Portal / Browsers / Enterprise Portals Harmonized Web User Interface Harmonize Common SAP Product Standards SAP BusinessObjects BI MS Office Workspace/ UI New EPM add-in for Microsoft Office Harmonized Web User Interface / Common EPM Add-in Full support for Microsoft Office 2010 and embedded portal scenarios Connect Enhanced SAP EPM and source system XBRL Publishing Strategy Management integration via Financial Information Management Planning and Consolidation version for the Microsoft Financial Consolidation 10.0 platform Support for VMware use in production Profitability and Cost environments* Intercompany Management Full Unicode and 64 bit support Automated variance analysis Financial Information Management Extend Enhanced consolidation capabilities Performance enhancements SAP Business Non-SAP sources and 10.1 NetWeaver Suite platforms Further support for Microsoft technologies BW including Microsoft SharePoint Additional planning and performance enhancements *Virtualization/VMware support is available in 7.x with limited testing – more testing will be done in 10.0. Details can be found here: https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1098847 © SAP 2011/ Page 33
  • 34. SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver 10.x Harmonized Web User Interface InfoView / SAP Portal / Browsers / Enterprise Portals Harmonize Common SAP Product Standards SAP BusinessObjects BI MS Office Workspace/ UI New EPM add-in for Microsoft Office 10.0 Harmonized Web User Interface / Common EPM Add-in Enhanced native SAP ERP and NetWeaver BW integration as well as SAP EPM integration via Connect Financial Information Management XBRL Publishing Strategy Management Utilize native SAP NetWeaver authentication 10.1 Risk Management Process Control Support for Matrix Security 10.0 Planning and Consolidation Financial Consolidation Support for VMware use in production version for SAP NetWeaver environments* Enhanced consolidation capabilities Intercompany Profitability and Cost Management Easier deployment and distribution of reports with briefing books (part of new EPM add-in for Extend Office) Financial Information Management 10.1 Enhanced driver-based planning and scenario planning SAP Business Non-SAP sources and Automated variance analysis NetWeaver Suite platforms BW Graphical calculation modeling Enhanced XBRL publishing capabilities *Virtualization/VMware support is available in 7.x with limited testing – more testing will be done in 10.0. Details can be found here: https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1098847 © SAP 2011 / Page 34
  • 35. Agenda SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Roadmap SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management Overview Q &A © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 35
  • 36. Accelerating the Last Mile of Finance Reduces Costs “ Tools that can help coordinate the financial statement, regulatory reporting and investor report production activities in one central product that can provide a collaborative environment for all contributing parties can reduce process costs by up to 30%. ” Gartner Research Financial Statement Production Solutions Increase Market Penetration John E. Van Decker November 2010 © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 36
  • 37. SAP’s Acquisition of cundus, AG Assets In December 2010, SAP announced and closed its acquisition of disclosure management solutions from Sample Joint Customers cundus AG SAP and cundus cundus AG Headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, with subsidiaries in Switzerland and the UK A certified SAP partner which provides BI and EPM consulting services and related software solutions SAP has acquired: cundus Financial Statement Factory – now SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management cundus informationCollector – now SAP BusinessObjects Notes Management Solutions are 100% complementary to SAP’s existing EPM and ERP solutions, and are already in use by a number of SAP’s customers © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 37
  • 38. Collaborative Disclosure Management in the Accounting and Financial Close End-to-End Process Financial Entity Corporate Reporting and Accounting Close Close Disclosure Reporting General Ledger and Analysis As part of the enterprise Entity Close Management performance management (EPM) Sub-Ledgers solutions, the new collaborative disclosure Intercompany management solutions Consolidation Reconciliation complete the end-to-end accounting and financial close process Notes Disclosure Management Management Financial Internal Controls Close Governance Master Data Governance for Financials © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 38
  • 39. SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management Reduce the time, risk and cost of regulatory disclosures Speed and flexibility Accelerate the generation of disclosure statements Integrate data for a single view across the organization Optimize the close from source to digital disclosure Collaboration Assign disclosure responsibility to distributed teams Automate integration and data flow Designed for ownership by finance professionals Compliance and control In-house production of trusted financial statements Support multiple financial and regulatory statements Enable creation of XBRL-based statements © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 39
  • 40. Q&A © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 40
  • 41. Thank You! Contact information: Rick Bryant Email: rick.bryant@sap.com Phone: +1 203 414-8783
  • 42. Kinross improves reporting timelines & accuracy with SAP-BPC Canadian BPC User Group Conference – 19 May 2011
  • 44. Corporate profile • Canadian based gold mining company with mines & projects in the USA, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Ghana, Mauritania & Russia • Employees: Approximately 7,000 worldwide • Strategic focus is to maximize net asset value & cash flow per share through a four-point plan: • Delivering mine & financial performance • Attracting & retaining the best people in the industry • Achieving operating excellence through the “Kinross Way” • Delivering future value through profitable growth Canadian BPC User Group Conference 44 19 May 2011
  • 45. Operations & growth projects White Gold Dvoinoye Kupol Fort Knox Toronto Kettle River-Buckhorn Round Mountain Tasiast Chirano Fruta del Norte Crixas Paracatu La Coipa Corporate office Maricunga Operations Growth projects Canadian BPC User Group Conference 45 19 May 2011
  • 46. 2010 performance & highlights • Production: 2.3 million gold equivalent ounces • Revenue: USD 3 billion • Acquired Red Back Mining • Increased revenue, cash flow & earnings • Advanced growth projects • Expanded gold reserves & resources Canadian BPC User Group Conference 46 19 May 2011
  • 47. Challenges & opportunities • Replace manually intensive, spreadsheet- driven financial consolidation process of 165 legal entities • Improve financial & operational data availability & insight across the company • Accelerate & streamline reporting Canadian BPC User Group Conference 47 19 May 2011
  • 48. Objectives • Speed financial close cycle using an enterprise solution that supports automation, manages diverse financial systems and is highly user intuitive • Enable easy access to financial and operational data via a centralized information repository that enforces data integrity Canadian BPC User Group Conference 48 19 May 2011
  • 49. Kinross Advanced Reporting System KARS implementation 49
  • 50. Implementation • External auditors, KPMG, assisted with selection process: • Enterprise wide solution to meet both financial and operational requirements • Single, reliable and centralized source of information that everyone in the company could access • Highly intuitive and provide familiar interfaces, including Microsoft Office • Scalable to support the company’s growth • Implementation partner: Performance Analytics Corporation • Two phases • External financial reporting • Internal operational reporting Canadian BPC User Conference 50 19 May 2011
  • 51. Project plan 19-Jun-08 31-Mar-09 Overview Scrub Data Consolidation Adjustments Parallel sub-consolidations KARS sub-consolidations Project Coordination JUN 1 JUL 1 AUG 1 SEP 1 OCT 1 NOV 1 DEC 1 JAN 1 FEB 1 MAR 1 APR 1 Canadian BPC User Group Conference 51 19 May 2011
  • 52. Project team • Project managers • PAC • Kinross – Corporate Finance • Kinross - IT • Consultants • 2 x PAC • KARS team • 4 x Kinross Corporate Finance, including system administrator • Key business users across company • Bi-weekly status conference calls Canadian BPC User Group Conference 52 19 May 2011
  • 53. Consulting • Application design • Fully calculated cash flow • Elimination of investments • Gold equivalent ratio by month, quarter & YTD • Imperial to metric conversion for USA sites • Reports and input schedules • Custom journal report • Interfaces Canadian BPC User Group Conference 53 19 May 2011
  • 54. BPC applications • DailyRate: Daily currency rates, metal & oil prices. • Rate: End of month & monthly average for Fx rates & prices. • Finance: Consolidation of financial & operational data. • Ownership: Entity ownership data. • Operations: Operational/production data. Canadian BPC User Group Conference 54 19 May 2011
  • 55. BPC applications – continued... • Dimensions (18) • Shared e.g. Category • Unique e.g. Account • Alternate hierarchies e.g. Entity 1. Legal 2. Management 3. Geographic 4. Segment DailyRate Rate Finance Ownership Operations Canadian BPC User Group Conference 55 19 May 2011
  • 56. Training & documentation • Developed • 1½ day training course • User guides for Operations & Finance • ½ day report writing course post ‘go-live’ • On-site training • Reno for all US sites • Chile • Brazil • Ecuador • Canada: Toronto & Vancouver Canadian BPC User Group Conference 56 19 May 2011
  • 57. Milestones • Monthly reporting implemented April 2009 • “Go live” for external reporting – Q2 2009 • Financial statement preparation for Q2, Q3 & Q4 based on KARS data • Legacy/Excel consolidation run in parallel for Q2, Q3 & Q4 to verify KARS data – discontinued Q1 2010 KARS Canadian BPC User Group Conference 57 19 May 2011
  • 58. Definitions & troubleshooting • Defintions • Troubleshooting • KARSMA • My KAR’s broken • Dangling investment • Is KARS down? • KARS froze up • Confusion • My P&L appears truncated • TVX spider web • I can enter it but it refuses to post • Optimize your data base • I sent that part of the email telepathically • PEBKAC • I loaded this yesterday but it apparently did not “take” • After you are on the verge of giving up, the system finally brings up the login screen only to later flash the blue bar death warning “The system cannot download information from the KARS.KINROSSGOLD.COM server.” Canadian BPC User Group Conference 58 19 May 2011
  • 59. “Then” quarterly consolidation process • First collected at a regional level • Highly summarized financial data • Submitted to headquarters 10 days after financial reporting cut-off date • Headquarters took a week to generate consolidated P&L & balance sheet • Another week to issue consolidated cash flow report • Request for more detail placed additional burden on regions and/or local business units Canadian BPC User Group Conference 59 19 May 2011
  • 60. “Now” monthly close process • WD3 • AP & AR closed 8am • Ounces produced input & transferred to Finance • WD6 • Source GL (JD Edwards) closed 8am & data loaded into BPC • Operations data transferred to Finance at 3pm • WD8 • Balance sheet continuities completed – cash flow completed • Supplementary input schedules completed • All entities submitted by COB • WD9 • Operations results issued to SLT • Regional signoff – KARS locked for the period • WD10 • Consolidated results issued to Executive Team Canadian BPC User Group Conference 60 19 May 2011
  • 61. Results • Rapid external financial reporting • First time in company’s history that audited quarterly financial statements were released at the same time as publicly announced quarterly financial results • Reduced reporting cycle timeline • 50% faster for completing consolidated balance sheet, profit & loss and cash flow statements • Business users can focus more time on analytics & operational improvements • Consolidated ‘monthly’ internal reporting • Delivered on budget & on time Canadian BPC User Group Conference 61 19 May 2011
  • 62. Post ‘go-live’ • Planning: Annual budgets & quarterly forecasts • IFRS reporting • User base increased from 60, in 2008, to 150 today • Enhanced reporting & analysis • Corporate responsibility reporting e.g. Consumption of carbon-emitting substances • Intercompany matching • Quarterly site conference call packs • Enhanced automation • JD Edwards interface • Interfaces between BPC applications • Interfaces to split financial & operational data from 100% entities to 50% entities Canadian BPC User Group Conference 62 19 May 2011
  • 63. Next steps • Upgrade to BPC v7.5 and SQL 2008 in June 2011 • Adopt new common chart of accounts from JD Edwards 9.0 • Enhanced reporting to senior leadership team • Interface with Xeras • XBRL publishing Canadian BPC User Group Conference 63 19 May 2011
  • 64. Kinross Advanced Reporting System Questions? 64
  • 65. Insert presentation title here 65 Month date, year
  • 66. Refreshments 2:45 – 3:15 Performance Analytics Employees: Peter Digby - President Niraj Dalmia, CA - BPC Application Consultant Graham Finney, CMA - Vice President Services Blair Hubbard, CMA - BPC Application Architect Jeffrey Kinch, CFP, PMP, CMA - Services Director Justin McNeely - Account Executive Lia Quarisa, CA - BPC Application Consultant Chelsea Wu – BI/BPC Consultant SAP Employees: Rick Bryant - EPM Centre of Excellence Tony Wright - EPM Solutions Consultant Patrick Fish – Solutions Principal Sam Fursey – Director, Maintenance Go-To Market Tom Stevenson – Account Executive © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 66
  • 67. Agenda 1:00 Opening Comments – Peter Digby, President, PAC 1:15 Evolution of BPC at Bell Media 1:45 CPM Today and Tomorrow 2:15 Kinross Streamlines Consolidation 2:45 Break and Refreshments 3:15 BPC integration with Business Intelligence SAP Disclosure Management 3:45 Open Forum 4:30 Networking Reception – (Draw for Playbook!!!) © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 67
  • 68. SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions The Right Tools For the Job Data Advanced Interactive Dashboards & Reporting Exploration Analysis Analysis Visualization Professionally Informed Executives, Managers Crystal Reports Xcelsius Information Consumers Explorer Web Intelligence Business Voyager Analysts Predictive Technically Workbench Capable Full Interactive Experience, Responsiveness Limited © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 68
  • 69. Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management Reduce the time, risk and cost of regulatory disclosures Tony Wright – SAP EPM Solutions Consultant SAP Canada May 19, 2011
  • 70. Open Forum Dashboards Leveraging SAP Support Performance Tuning BPC Training © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 70
  • 71. Open Forum Dashboards - Chelsea Wu – PAC Leveraging SAP Support - Sam Fursey – SAP Performance Tuning - Blair Hubbard - PAC BPC Training - Jeffrey Kinch – PAC © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 71
  • 72. Open Forum Dashboards Integration with BPC Understanding metrics/KPI usage type – graphs, what-if, report or BPF launcher Chelsea Wu, PAC BI/BPC Consultant © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 72
  • 73. Open Forum Leveraging SAP Support New SAP Continuous Quality Checks for BPC EarlyWatch Check CQC for Implementation / Going Live More to come Increased Solution Manager Integration Allows remote services to be delivered efficiently Expert Guided Implementations Included with SAP Enterprise Support Help you get Solution Manager up and running quickly Sam Fursey, SAP Director, Maintenance Go-To- Market © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 73
  • 74. Open Forum Performance Tuning Architecture Logic Report & Input Schedule design Partitioning Hardware Blair Hubbard, PAC Application Architect © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 74
  • 75. Open Forum BPC Training Format Delivery vehicle Content Jeffrey Kinch, PAC Services Director © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 75
  • 76. Hand in conference survey for a chance to win a BlackBerry Playbook. You must be present to win. Thank You! www.linkedin.com/groups?most www.twitter.com/PAC_Tweets Popular=&gid=3095692 Or search for “Performance Analytics Community”