1. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO PeopleSoft nVision - Overview Finance Network Chuck Axthelm March 16, 2006

2. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 2 What is nVision  nVision is PeopleSoft reporting tool Excel add-in Extracts cost, lien & effort data from FMS tables Inserts this data into a pre-formatted Excel spreadsheet  Most divisions are using nVision to generate standard financial reports

3. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 3 Advantages  Provides timely, accurate data No re-keying of FMS data into Excel  Downloads complete quickly  Report formats easily edited and can be saved, updated and reused  Excel formats and formulas are applied to downloaded data

4. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 4 Disadvantages  Can only access data in FMS Funding and budget data must be manually entered and maintained in Excel report layouts  nVision “language” can appear cryptic & hard to interpret  User must make and save format/formula changes in the layout not in the output  Not recommended for “on the fly” reports

5. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 5 nVision Reporting 3-Step Process 1. Modify & Save Format 2. Update Report Request 3. Run Report FMS QuerynVision Layout nVision Report RequestReport Output

6. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 6 nVision Home Page

7. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 7 nVision Process Components  FMS Query: Specifies generic financial data & related dimensions Contain very little restrictive criteria  Layout contains: Excel logic: Formats and formulas nVision logic of what data to download and where to insert it Non-FMS data such as budgets and funding  Report Request specifies: Name of Report Output Name of the Layout to use “As of” date for financial information

8. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 8 How it Works  nVision criteria added to an Excel spreadsheet transforms it into an nVision report layout  Note: Only 1 layout per Workbook  Cell A1 typically specifies the source FMS query – applies to entire layout  Costs, liens or hours are retrieved at the intersection of row and column criteria

9. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 9 Getting Started with nVision  Must have installed the client version of PS nVision (contact Aurora Pecoraro)  All users copy and modify existing nVision layouts  Very few create layouts from scratch  Dive in and try it  Worse thing that can happen is you don’t get the results you want

10. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 10 Public nVision Layouts & How To Go To: OCFO Website/Financial Policy and Training/Training Materials Note: Save layouts to your desktop

11. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO nVision Overview Reference Materials

12. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 12 Decoding nVision Criteria  % - designates the start of an nVision command  ATT, – designates that a description field to be inserted; column is resized for longest value  C – query results column (Resource Amount, Resource Quantity, or Lien Amount)  F – what follows in the data source field name  N – what follows is a specific tree node  Q – what follows is the source query name  S – what follows designates a time span; eg year to data, period 1, etc.  T – what follows is an FMS tree name  V – what follows is the specific value of the source field (multiple values can be listed separated by commas and each preceded with the V prefix)

13. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 13 Time Span Codes  YTD Current fiscal year thru the last hard close  PER1, PER2,…PER12 Fiscal accounting period where PER1 represents October  ALLYEAR-1 Total of 12 months from prior fiscal year

14. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 14 Query: nvZW_PC_RU_RC  Used for Project One-Line Layout  Fields Project ID Project Status B&R Resource Category Fiscal Year Accounting Period Resource Amount & Effort Hours  Criteria Analysis Type = ACT

15. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CFO 15 Query: UK_BUDGET_MANAGEMENT_COSTS  Used for BMR Layout  Fields Resource Category* Resource Amount & Effort Hours  Criteria Analysis type = ACT * Note: The layout summarizes res cats using the FMS res cat hierarchy