Friday 4 June 2021

General Ledger Client Questionnaire.

S.No

Questionnaire for GL

Process type

1

What does your current chart of accounts look like.

Setup

2

Do you plan to have a new chart of accounts

Setup

3

Are your account values in any order or range pattern

Setup

4

What are the account parent or grandparent structures

Setup

5

Do you use unique accounts to capture statistics

Setup

6

Who is going to maintain the segment values once entered

Setup

7

Is there a need for a mapping from an old COA to a new COA

Setup

8

Are certain segment   values onlyy valid with specificother segment values

Setup

9

Do you use multiple currencies in your business

Setup

10

How many currencies do you use and what are they

Setup

11

What is your policy on changing currency rates

Process

12

What is the primary currency you have

Setup

13

Do you enter data in multiple currencies

Process

14

When is the beginning of your year

Setup

15

What is the period type. How many periods in a year.

Setup

16

Do all the companies have the same calendar

Setup

17

Do you have a naming convention for the periods

Setup

18

What accounting periods are in your quarters

Setup

19

How do you close an accounting period for Procurement

Process

20

Do you accrue your receipts to the General Ledger

Process

21

Does your company prepare budgets

Process

22

What types of budgets do you prepare  (for example, revenue & expenses, balance,     sheets, capital, project, and so on)

Process

23

Do your company’s key performance indicators drive the budgets

Process

24

How many budgets do you prepare for an individual fiscal year

Metric

25

Do you prepare more than one budget per Set of Books

Process

26

What is the range of accounting periods for each budget

Process

27

At what organization level (for example, cost center, division, or region) do you budget

Process

28

Do budgets require approval

Process

29

What levels of approvals are required for budgets

Process

30

How many budget "organizations" do you have

Metric

34

Will budget organization security be required in the future

Setup

36

At what account level do you currently budget

Process

37

Is your budgeting process centralized or decentralized

Setup

40

Do you require consolidated budgets

Setup

41

Are all budgets prepared in the same currency

Setup

42

Do you use Lotus, Excel, or another spreadsheet program to prepare budgets

Process

43

Which spreadsheet products and which version do/will you use

Setup

44

How do you close or "freeze" a budget once it is approved

Process

45

Is the process to close or "freeze" a budget once it is approved documented

Process

46

How long does it take to close or "freeze" a budget

Process

47

How long should it take to close or "freeze" a budget

Process

48

Is closing or "freezing" a budget a hard close or a soft close

Process

49

Who performs the tasks associated with closing or "freezing" the budget

Process

50

How are adjustments to closed periods and/or frozen budgets handled

Process

51

Are budgets altered frequently during the fiscal year

Process

52

Do you need to retain original (prerevision) budgets throughout the year

Setup

53

Is a budget download required to facilitate budget creation or maintenance

Setup

54

Do you derive any type of forecast from budgets

Setup

55

Does your company prepare financial forecasts

Process

56

What types of financial forecasts does your company prepare

Process

57

How do you prepare financial forecasts

Process

58

Is the financial forecasting process documented

Process

59

How long does it take to prepare financial forecasts

Process

60

How long should it take to prepare financial forecasts

Process

61

Are financial forecasts a hard or soft close

Process

62

Who performs the tasks associated with preparing financial forecasts

Process

63

How many forecasts do you prepare during an individual fiscal year

Metric

83

How do you maintain your Financial Reporting data

Process

84

How do you audit your Financial Reporting data

Process

85

Which operations/processes do you want to streamline for Financial Reporting

Process

86

Which operations/processes do you want to eliminate for Financial Reporting

Process

87

Are there any time-intensive Financial Reporting operations/processes that need to be addressed

Process

88

How do you close an accounting period for Financial Reporting

Process

89

Is the schedule to close an accounting period for Financial Reporting documented

Process

90

How long does it take to close an accounting period for Financial Reporting

Process

91

How long should it take to close an accounting period for Financial Reporting

Process

 

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