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IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR) Library

Analyst reports 

FSN Product Review: IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR)

This product review considers how the "core" functionality and XBRL capabilities of IBM Cognos FSR seek to solve the challenges of the "Last Mile" of finance.

Last updated: 16 Dec 2011


Improving decisions and reporting with IBM Cognos FSR

Download Nucleus Research's note on Cognos FSR, and how it enabled companies to increase the productivity of the finance department and report builders in non-finance roles.

Last updated: 08 Sep 2011


BPM Partners: The Strategic Need to Automate the Last Mile of Finance

Discover why your business should automate the business processes and "last mile" activities.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


FSN Product Review: IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR)

This product review considers how the "core" functionality and XBRL capabilities of IBM Cognos FSR seek to solve the challenges of the "Last Mile" of finance.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


Nucleus Research: Assessing the Benefits of IBM Cognos FSR

Learn how companies using Cognos FSR were able to improve the productivity of accountants, report builders, and their managers.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


Nucleus Research: ROI Case Study - IBM Cognos FSR

Discover the benefits of using the application to create financial statements with XBRL tagging.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011

Books 

Financial Reporting Automation For Dummies

This guide discusses the pressures Finance faces creating management and external reports in Word and Excel and uncovers the benefits of deploying an automated reporting solution.

Last updated: 17 Oct 2011


XBRL Mandate For Dummies

This guide helps organizations assemble the right people, make the right investment in a solution, and helps Finance create best practices to ensure a successful XBRL compliance.

Last updated: 17 Oct 2011


SEC XBRL Mandate For Dummies

Learn the basics of XBRL tagging; SEC XBRL reporting requirements; and the difference between outsourcing, bolt-on, and integrated solution choices.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


iXBRL For Dummies

All you need to know about iXBRL.

Last updated: 24 Jun 2011

Brochures 

IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting ( FSR) automated external reporting

IBM Cognos FSR provides a collaborative environment where many contributors can participate in the creation of the external document, within a secure environment, a tight audit trail and with a seamless connection to source data.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


IBM Cognos FSR: A unified platform for public sector financial management and reporting

IBM Cognos FSR for Public Sector Financial Reporting.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


IBM Cognos FSR: Automate mutual fund reporting

IBM Cognos FSR is a single secure platform that automates the creation of financial reports, prospectuses and any other statutory or regulatory filings for mutual fund companies and fund administrators.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


IBM Cognos FSR™ Account Reconciliation

Reduce risk and improve efficiency during your company's financial close with IBM Cognos FSR for Account Reconciliation.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


IBM Cognos FSR™ Automated CAFR reporting for state and local governments

IBM Cognos FSR provides a scalable, functionality rich solution to automate the creation of the CAFR.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


IBM Cognos FSR™ Integrated financial close management

With IBM Cognos FSR, companies can collaborate on financial consolidations, reconciliation management, continuous controls and external reporting – using just one solution.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011

Case studies 

FrieslandCampina cuts financial reporting cycle times by 50 percent ... Automating financial reporting processes for a €9 billion business

FrieslandCampina’s office of finance implemented IBM® Cognos® Financial Statement Reporting (FSR), a secure platform for automating each step in the financial reporting process. In Cognos FSR, report data is integrated with source data – making reports dynamic and automatically updating them with near real-ti...

Last updated: 15 Dec 2011


Morgan Sindall Group plc builds automated financial reporting ... Simplifying the creation of accurate and timely annual and interim reports

Morgan Sindall’s finance team built a new annual reporting process by implementing IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR). The solution uses consolidated financial data from IBM Cognos Controller and creates linked Microsoft Excel and Word documents that form the basis of the final report.

Last updated: 14 Dec 2011


Automated Treasury Management at IBM with Cognos FSR

Using IBM® Cognos® FSR, the Treasury Department was able to automate each step in the cash management process – cutting the time and effort needed to collect, consolidate and review monthly reports and forecasts while also greatly reducing the risk of errors in this critical Finance function.

Last updated: 26 Sep 2011


Automate and enhance controls over CAFR and budget reporting ... With IBM Cognos FSR

To gain approval for annual budgets and meet other critical obligations, the Office of Management and Budget needs to be able to produce its comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) in an efficient and timely manner. With data held in hundreds of spreadsheets creating these reports was a lengthy and error...

Last updated: 19 Sep 2011


NW Natural excels at XBRL ... Using IBM Cognos FSR to automate SEC reporting

NW Natural implemented IBM® Cognos® Financial Statement Reporting (FSR), a secure, integrated disclosure management platform which provides comprehensive governance, automation, collaboration and validation tools for narrative-rich financial reports such as the 10-Q and 10-K filings.

Last updated: 07 Sep 2011


IBM Cognos FSR and British Airways

British Airways gains greater control of its external report creation process with IBM Cognos FSR.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


IBM Cognos FSR and LGC

LGC relies on IBM Cognos FSR for operational efficiencies and a reduction in regulatory risks.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


IBM Cognos FSR and LV=

Simply put, IBM Cognos FSR gives LV= one version of the truth.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


British Airways gains greater control of its external report creation process with IBM Cognos FSR

The responsibility of the Group Reporting team within British Airways is to provide our management, our regulators, our investors and the public at large with accurate and timely financial information, which transparently reflects the state of our current operations

Last updated: 09 Jun 2011


IBM Cognos FSR gives LV= one version of the truth

A combination of rapid growth and the company’s efforts to transform itself to meet the rapidly changing environment that insurers and asset managers must operate in had a profound impact on the Group Finance department at LV=.

Last updated: 09 Jun 2011


IBM BUSINESS ANALYTICS COGNOS FSR: MAJOR OIL AND GAS COMPANY ... A detailed ROI case study

Nucleus Research recently examined the use of Clarity FSR at a major oil and gas producer to identify the benefits of using the application to create financial statements with XBRL tagging.

Last updated: 03 Mar 2011

Data sheets 

IFRS Reporting with IBM Cognos FSR

IBM Cognos FSR helps companies in the transition from GAAP to IFRS.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


Integrated XBRL

The integrated IBM Cognos FSR approach embeds XBRL tagging inside the external reporting process creating reusable XBRL for your next 10-Q or 10-K.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


Typical implementation overview

Implementation timeline for IBM Cognos FSR software.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


XBRL implementation overview

XBRL implimentation timeline for IBM Cognos FSR software.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


XBRL Level IV filing

IBM Cognos FSR reduces the level of effort and risk related to the XBRL Level IV filing.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011

Videos 

Cognos FSR Customer Video

Learn how 4 companies are using Cognos FSR to streamline the creation and production of their lengthy narrative-rich financial reports.

Last updated: 06 Sep 2011


Cognos FSR Animated Video

Automate the creation and delivery of management reports and analysis as well as external regulatory disclosures (including XBRL). Discover Cognos FSR.

Last updated: 03 Aug 2011

White papers 

Extracting the Full Value of SEC Filing Software

This third party white paper by Ventana Research discusses how applications can do more than XBRL tagging.

Last updated: 04 Nov 2011


The single most important document

This whitepaper explains the benefits of automation and enhanced controls with the IBM Cognos FSR solution.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011


Twenty-three reasons why companies choose integrated XBRL

Benefits companies around the world have experienced as a result of choosing an integrated XBRL approach for the External Financial Reporting process.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2011