6. REPORTS

Enterprise IS Financial Reporting is a comprehensive
framework to help you analyze how corporate investments in IS
technology are being used.  It provides information from a
variety of perspectives to address the needs of various
members of the enterprise including corporate management, IS
management, IS user management, and accounting
administrators.

The information is organized in five management impact areas:

o Invoicing
o Client Support
o IS Financial Management
o Enterprise IS Financial Management
o Accounting Administration

Enterprise IS Financial Reporting provides information either
as a mainframe report, such as an invoice, or on a
workstation where you can look at the information in graphic
and tabular form.

The information on the workstation is presented in five
subject areas:

o User IS Expense Analysis
o IS Revenue Analysis
o Application IS Expense Analysis
o Daily IS Revenue Analysis
o IS Revenue Projection and Rate Analysis

Because each subject area is from a different perspective,
each one is especially useful for different members of the
enterprise.  For example, User IS Expense Analysis takes the
perspective of IS users by looking at their IS expenses.  It
can help IS user management look for trends and problems with
their IS usage.  On the other hand, IS Revenue Analysis takes
the perspective of IS by looking at IS revenue.  IS
management can use it to analyze the fiscal health of the IS
organization.

The workstation information is presented so that you can view
it from a variety of views and levels.  You can look at
summary information in a graph and then view more detailed
data in tabular form.  You can also look at a subset of the
information in either a graph or a table.  For example, with
User IS Expense Analysis, you can look at a summary of IS
charges by month in a graph and then in more detail in a
table.  You can view a breakdown of these charges by other
cost center levels, such as department or application, or by
invoice category.  This provides the flexibility to analyze
the information and focus on specific areas that may require
further investigation.


TERMINOLOGY

The terms listed below are used in Enterprise IS Financial
Reporting to mean the following:

Cost center structure      Defines the enterprise's hierarchy
                           for reporting and billing.  Each
                           enterprise's cost center structure
                           is different.  An example of a
                           cost center structure includes
                           division, department, and
                           application.  Each node in the
                           hierarchy is identified by a
                           unique set of COSTCTRn values,
                           where n is 1 through 9, and can be
                           assigned a name for easy
                           reference.

Cost center level          A specific level within an
                           enterprises' cost center
                           structure, such as division.

Application                A way of classifying the major IS
                           workloads in your enterprise.  It
                           is important to identify
                           application in one of the levels
                           of your cost center structure to
                           fully use the information provided
                           on the workstation.  This applies
                           especially to Application IS
                           Expense Analysis which focuses on
                           monthly charges by application.

Charging element           The most detailed level of
                           charging information.  It is
                           synonymous with computation code
                           (or comp code) and represents a
                           resource such as CPU time or print
                           lines.

Invoice category           A grouping of charging elements
                           for reporting purposes.


Enterprise IS Financial Reporting is Option 4 on the
Accounting Primary Options mainframe menu.  The management
impact areas are listed as menu options on the Enterprise IS
Financial Reporting menu.  Each management impact area has
its own submenu of information options.  Depending on your
selection, you can enter your specifications and submit a job
to run a report or create a file for downloading to the
workstation.

This chapter is organized by Enterprise IS Financial
Reporting management impact area.  Mainframe reports and
workstation subject areas are described in the applicable
sections:

 1 - Invoicing
 2 - Client Support
 3 - IS Financial Management
 4 - Enterprise IS Financial Management
 5 - Accounting Administration
 6 - The EISFR Workstation Application
 7 - Extracting Data for the Workstation
 8 - MICF Inquiries