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Financial Management

Multiple Grouping Attributes in Cost Plan

The Group By and Sub-Group By fields have been replaced by a multivalued lookup field named Grouping Attributes. A cost plan now has ten available grouping attributes instead of five. You can plan by all ten attributes instead of two. For more information on grouping attributes, see the Financial Management Guide.

The attributes plan_type_code and sub_plan_type for the object costplan have been removed.

Upgrade actions:

• Update custom portlets to remove any reference to the deprecated attributes.
• Financial planning views will be refreshed during the upgrade. All customizations will need to be updated after the upgrade is complete.
• PLAN_DETAIL_1_KEY and PLAN_DETAIL_2_KEY columns have been dropped from table FIN_COST_PLAN_DETAILS. Any custom reference to these columns must be handled prior to the upgrade process.

Process Enabled Cost Plans

Cost plans are processed-enabled in this release. You can create processes on financial plans.

Upgrade action: None

Improvements Using the Resource Plan

The following Financial Management improvements have been made using Resource Planning:

• Getting cost or rate from the rate matrix

  You can create or populate a plan from assignments or allocations the way it is done in CA Clarity PPM v12. Changes have been made to rate calculations to get better and more accurate rates.

• Null grouping attributes

  You can create a plan detail with a null grouping attribute using a resource plan. This enhancement removes some restrictions such as requiring a team member to be financially enabled or assigned a role.

• Insta-slice

  This feature is turned off for the Populate from Resource Plan feature. Time slices are created when the time slice job runs.

Upgrade action: None

Simple Budget Changes

The following changes were made to the Simple Budget for this release:

• Three new fields were added to the Financial Metrics section of the simple budget:
  • IRR (Internal Rate of Return)
  • MIRR (Modified Internal Rate of Return)
  • Planned Payback Period (in months)
• Four new fields were added to the Financial Metrics Options section:
  • Investment Rate
  • Initial Investment
  • Use System Rate for Total Cost of Capital
  • Use System Reinvestment Rate
• The following Simple Budget forecast fields were removed:
  • Forecasted Benefit
  • Forecasted Benefit Finish
  • Forecasted Benefit Start
  • Forecasted Breakeven
  • Forecasted Cost
  • Forecasted Cost Finish
  • Forecasted Cost Start
  • Forecasted NPV
  • Forecasted ROI
• The following fields were renamed:
  • Forecast equals Budget is now Budget equals Planned Values.
  • Calculate NPV is now Calculate Financial Metrics.

See the Financial Management User Guide for more information.

The Simple Budget page will be refreshed during the upgrade if it was not customized.

Upgrade action:

• If any of the user-defined process uses deprecated simple budget forecast attributes, the process definition is invalidated. Update the process definition to remove references to the deprecated attributes.
• If any custom portlets use simple budget forecast attributes, update the portlets to remove references to the deprecated attributes.
• If the investment budget view was customized prior to this release, new IRR/MIRR attributes will not display on an investment's budget page out-of-the-box. Reconfigure the investment budget view in Studio to add the new IRR/MIRR attributes.

  If the investment budget view was not customized, it is refreshed during the upgrade and the new out-of-the-box attributes are visible.

Entity Plan Defaults

Entity plan defaults have been updated to support multiple grouping attributes.

Entity plan detail defaults functionality is not available with this release.

Upgrade action: None

System Currency

System currency setup is required before you can complete the following actions:

• Access the following pages:
  • Project Financial Properties
  • Project Simple Budget
• Import an entity using the XML Open Gateway

Upgrade action: None

External Billing Removed

All existing External Billing will be deleted and will not be accessible after the upgrade to this release.

Upgrade action: Any open billing cycles should be processed before you upgrade.

Self View and Aggregate View Removed

In previous versions, CA Clarity PPM supported four plan detail views: Self, flat, aggregate, and billing.

CA Clarity PPM v13.0 supports two:

• Flat (Investment Currency View)
• Billing (Billing Currency View)

Note: In plan detail views, the nongrouping fields are hidden in this release. In CA Clarity PPM v12, the Group By and Sub-Group By columns are always visible, even if only one group by attribute is used.

Upgrade action: None

Test Rate Matrix Removed

The Test Rate Matrix feature and the Test Matrix button have been removed and will not be accessible after the upgrade to this release.

Upgrade action: None

Changes to Financial Management Links

The following changes have been made to links in Financial Management:

• Administrative Methods - Removed
• Tax Authorities - Removed
• Define Matrix - Renamed to Cost Plus Codes

Upgrade action: None

Financial XML Open Gateway (XOG) Changes

• Cost plan details imported through the XML Open Gateway must have start and end dates that match a valid fiscal period. For CA Clarity PPM v12 matching a fiscal period was not required. The following script segments show the differences between CA Clarity PPM v12 and v13.0.

  v12 cost plan detail:

  <PlanData cost="700.0" end_date="2011-01-31"
              revenue="750.0" start_date="2011-01-16" units="7.0"/>
  

  v13.0

  <Cost>
        <segment finish="2008-01-31T00:00:00" start="2008-01-01T00:00:00" value="100.0"/>
  </Cost>
  

• Fiscal period is now included in the XML script for importing entities.
• Financial planning XML Open Gateway scripts are not backward compatible.
• Company XOG: Attribute batchcycle has been deprecated. The attribute value will be ignored during xog-in.
• Entity XOG: The attributes defaultBatchCycle and defaultRemitToLocation have been removed and cannot be used as part of an entity xog-in.
• Project/Investment XOG: The forecastEqualsBudget and calculatePresentValueInfo attributes have been deprecated from the Investment XOG. These values will be ignored during xog-in.

  Use the attributes setBudgetValuesEqualToPlannedValues and calculateFinancialMetrics instead. For details about new simple budget attributes, see the XML Open Gateway Developer Guide.

• Investment simple budget forecast attributes have been deprecated and values for these attributes will be ignored during xog-in.

Upgrade action: None