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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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copy/transfer company journals to another journal

Currently, a company journal can not be copied or transferred to a new company journal. We would recommend to foresee this functionality to avoid re-input/re-import of company journals when you restructure the number of company journals.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Singel Sign on (SSO) for smartcard / Biometrics.

Singel-sign-on for windows client doesn´t work with certificate based logon technology (Biometrics / Smartcard)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Changed movement-logic in Data Entry on Investment account

Data Entry Form for Balance Sheet: --> Investments in Group Companies (Shareholding Register) If you want to open the shareholding Register within your Opening Balance Account, you´ll see all the Investments that have been done up to the Perio...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Change layout in Reconcile Intercompany

1. Users suggest that there shall be some kind of favorites/personal setting with selections, that can be saved and reused during another closing or a possibility to have a selection list saved in own excel sheet (e.g. list of reports), and copy t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Change layout in IC report

Menu Company>Reports>Intercompany report.When the IC report is run it doesn´t show all related information for one transaction in one row. It would have been a good way of analyzing differences when opening the report in excel and filter, b...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

User defined report to be able to extract data of cost of investments by owned companies (i.e. as counter co)

Although the investment account is tagged with Intercompany code "A", there's currently no way to create a report similar to intercompany report that enable the breakdown of cost of investment (entered via shareholding and investment register) by ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Parallell hierarchies in extended dimensions

Today you can just have one hierarchy when it comes to the 4 different extended dimensions. That is a problem when we compete with competitors. Due to that the storing is on the lowest level couldn´t it be possible to have parallell hierarchies? ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Reconciliation report when using counterdimension

When you use counterdimensions it´s tricky to use the usual prebuild IC-reconciliation reports.To advance the prebuild reports it would be great to have the ability to select Dim1 instead of a company so that the report would present everything f...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Dimensions in columns in Trial Balance

Customers works more and more with extended dimensions. They have a strong wish and need to select to see dimensions in columns in the same way that you can select to see companies in columns.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration