The purpose of this document is to describe the BFC Admin activities concerning the PREV category in BFC.
PREV phase is managed by the Corporate Controlling team and used by GBU controllers for Y+1 budget exercise.
PREV it's a yearly phase with its own conso scope (PREV), currency conversion rates (PREV) and category scenario (PREV).
The content is restricted to P&L, WC, Fixed assets per business - multi periods category (5 quarters) - reporting per Business using fictive reporting companies (not legal ones).
The opening of PREV phase should occur in July.
To create a new Reporting ID for the period, select the one of the previous year in the field Select Reporting IDs.
Then in Reporting Organizer module Open it and Save As.


The General tab defines the general properties of the reporting ID.
Enter the following information:

The Definition tab indicates the reporting status. It can also be specified the associated category scenario and the start and end dates for the reporting.
Enter the following information:

The Package tab defines the data entry settings applicable to packages:

The Restrictions tab defines the data entry restrictions which are applied when the data is entered.
There are no restrictions to be set up.

The Operation tab defines the settings to publish the packages.
In the Deadline it has to be informed the date that the packages will have to be published.
Setting the deadline at the end of YYYY+1 will allow Corporate controlling team to publish or republish packages in the year of the budget.

As general rule, BFC Admin should copy the list of packages completed in YYYY-1 + the 3 central adjustments ones (GEST-ADJ / AJUST-RH / AJUST-DISCOP).
However, the list of packages to be created must always be confirmed by Corporate Controlling team (KUF Nicolas Bourgois).


PREV scope must be created in FCTop and piloted to FCProd.
Only required the list of companies for which PREV packages have been created.


Task EXPL-GESTION has to be used to pilot PREV consolidation scope.


PREV exchange rates are provided by Corporate Controlling team, in July, in an excel file.
BFC Admin team,
Both, creation and update, ONLY upon requests from Corporate Controlling team.
The file sent to BFC Admin must have a tab - BFC INPUT - with the Average (TMN) and Closing (TC) rates for the quarters of the next year.


In FCTop, in the exchange rates module,
In this example, to create 2023 tables we do a Save as from 2022 tables.



There's an Excel workbook - BFC PREV ER update.xlsx - that should be used to prepare the BFC tables update.
The file - BFC PREV ER update.xlsx - is saved in this folder on the remote desktop \\Acew1ptsefcp1\BFC-SHARE\ER\PREV
The file can also be found in the Gdrive
Open BFC Excel WIN Link Prod and then open the file.
The file has several tabs:
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Tab Copy BFC input - is the one to which we should copy/paste the values we receive in BFC input from the requestor.


Tabs PREV 03 , PREV 06 , PREV 09 , PREV 12 - will be automatically updated trough excel formulas and BFC excel retrieval formulas.
PREV 03 and PREV 06
TC & TMN (columns C & D) - values are retrieved trough formulas from tab Copy BFC input;
TMN-1 & TO (columns E & F) - values are retrieved from BFC (PREV / Dec. Y-1);
TCN-1 & TMYN-1 (columns G & H) - values are retrieved from BFC (REEL / N-1);

To update TMN-1 & TO (columns E & F) and TCN-1 & TMYN-1 (columns G & H) we must connect to BFCTop and refresh the file



Once the data has been refreshed we should copy the tables into BFC:


PREV 09 and PREV 12
TC & TMN (columns C & D) - values are retrieved trough formulas from tab Copy BFC input;
As in July we don't have yet the REEL rates for Sept. and Dec., we will update only TC & TMN (columns C & D).


Once 09 YY REEL rates become available,
In BFC PREV ER update.xlsx, there's a tab PREV 09 update (Y) created to retrieve 09 YY REEL rates and to update TCN-1 & TMYN-1 columns in 09 YY+1 PREV rates table.
Once the data has been refreshed we should copy the 2 columns into BFC.


Once 12 YY REEL rates become available, YY+1 PREV rates tables can be updated.
In BFC PREV ER update.xlsx, there are 4 tabs PREV 03 update(Y+1), PREV 06 update(Y+1), PREV 09 update(Y+1) and PREV 12 update(Y+1) created to retrieve 12 YY REEL rates and update Dec. YY-1 in PREV rates.
03, 06 and 09 PREV tables
In these tables we need to update TCN-1 & TMYN-1 columns.

12 PREV table
In these table we need to update TMN-1, TO, TCN-1 & TMYN-1 columns.

PREV consolidation is defined yearly and it's multi-period:
Data entry period 12.YY
Calculated periods 03.YY+1; 06.YY+1; 09.YY+1; 12.YY+1
In the tab General should contain the following information:

In the tab Properties should contain the following information:

In the tab Opening Balances no opening balance data

In the tab Periods conversion rates need to be adjusted to the PREV rates.
