Corporate Financial Function
Marie-Line Ardito

General Description

Overview of GBU's Financial situation with an highligh on Net Sales, Contribution Margin, Fixed Costs, Underlying Ebitda, CAPEX, Working Capital, Simplified Cash Flow.
It provides the previous month's result comparing with BFR or Budget or Restated (see Comparaison rule)
The detailed tables contain various elements from the Net Sales to the Underlying EBITDA and from the Underlying EBITDA to the Simplified Cash Flow :
  • FY Y-1 RSB or Historical
  • Actual Month-2
  • Actual Month-1
  • Actual Month
  • Month Budget
  • QTD Actual Quarter
  • QTD Budget Quarter
  • Delta Actual-Budget QTD
  • % Delta Actual-Budget QTD
  • Actual YTD
  • Budget YTD
  • Delta Actual- Budget YTD
  • % Delta Actual- Budget YTD
  • Comex
  • Controlling
  • Finance
All the accesses must be validated by:
Corporate Finance - point 1 and 3
GBU Finance Director + copy to Corporate Finance - point 2
1 .Lead FD Role (specific role)
2 .1 GBU / Legal Entities (of the GBU)
3 .Multi GBUs / Legal Entities
Access form
Key Figure Example
  • Total of actual "Net Sales" (Key figures) in M€ for the Month or Quarter (according to actual month)
  • Total of Budget, BFR, or restated in M€ (according to actual month) - See description of Comparison Rule)
  • Delta (in percentage) between the actual and its comparison.
  
Comparison Rule

Actual
Current Year's results
Restated
Previous Year's (Y-1) results based on Current Year's structure and rate
Historical
Previous Year's (Y-1) Official results published
Budget
Official forecast for Current Year defined in October Previous Year (Y-1)
BFR
4 re-forecast for Current Year : BFR03/BFR06/BFR09/BFR12 = (Official forecast for Current Year defined in October Previous Year - Total Actual Q1+Q2+Q3)
Sources 
BFC
All except the below list
Manual Files
  • BFR
  • WACC Corporate
  • WACC GBUs
  • Tax Rate
  • Maintenance Rate
  • Free Cash Flow