Cognos Financial Performance Receivables Analytics

Analytic reporting for minimizing delinquent accounts and improving cash flow

IBM® Cognos® Financial Performance Receivables Analytics provides packaged reporting and analysis of accounts receivable. It is a module of the Cognos Financial Performance Analytics application. The solution helps finance managers quickly assess account history, customer payment trends, departmental effectiveness, high-risk accounts, cash inflow trends and measures of customer satisfaction.

Cognos Financial Performance Receivables Analytics helps finance minimize delinquent accounts and bad debts, and improve cash flow.

Assess customer payment trends—analyze payment histories and identify high-risk accounts.
Improve cash flow management—forecast cash inflow on the basis of existing credit items and payment terms.
Change as quickly as your business does—streamline the configuration of reports and add new content quickly to meet changing business requirements.

Assess customer payment trends

Track customer payment patterns and analyze the risk of nonpayment.
Segment customers based on size, strategic value and risk.
Detect patterns of ongoing payment adjustments to correct billing errors, reduce process costs and improve customer satisfaction.

Improve cash flow management

Forecast cash inflow on the basis of existing credit items and payment terms.
Provide a real-time picture of available cash reserves.
Reduce cash operating cycle times.

Change as quickly as your business does

Access data residing in different transactional systems to gain an integrated view of financial performance.
Configure reports to meet changing business needs, enabling faster insight and smarter financial decisions.

Cognos Financial Performance Receivables Analytics resources

White paper: Bridging Operational & Financial Forecasting
Learn how Cognos solutions help finance and other departments synchronize their financial and operational planning to optimize performance.

Demo: IBM Cognos Financial Performance Analytics
See how a straightforward prompt process enables finance users to analyze details and easily run reports.

White paper: Extending Planning and Forecasting with Analytics
Steve Player from the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable explains how finance teams can use advanced planning and forecasting to gain insight and make better business decisions.

White paper: Optimizing Transaction Systems for Faster Business Insight
Learn how packaged, self-service reporting and analysis gives you faster insight at the point of business impact.

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