6. REPORTS › 6.4 Enterprise IS Financial Management

6.4 Enterprise IS Financial Management

 
 The Enterprise IS Financial Management impact area presents
 IS revenues as a business expense.  It allows corporate
 management to consider IS services an another component of
 the business, similar to raw materials or labor, and to
 evaluate IS charges by the same criteria as other
 investments.  It provides corporate and IS management with an
 understanding of how the IS organization and IS user
 departments are performing financially in comparison to plan.
 Information provided includes:
 
 o What IS resources customers are buying
 
 o How the corporation is investing its IS expense dollars,
   comparing the amount spent to support existing systems to
   the amount invested in new applications
 
 This information is presented on the mainframe by the
 Application Expense Summary Report.  This is discussed in
 detail in the following section:
 
  1 - Application Expense Summary Report