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Focus – A Software Tool for Management Accounting

The task of Focus is to perform the management accounting calculations and offer the person responsible a tool for

• Seeing how the calculation results have been created
• Administering the calculation process and the required data processing

Focus is suitable for activity based costing, but also for other types of management accounting.

Cox has extensive experience from many different calculation applications and this experience has been utilized when Focus has been developed. Our aim is to provide a cost effective costing and profitability calculation solution that sticks to the essentials.

Focus is based on Microsoft SQL Server technology and is therefore very powerful and scalable. Focus implementations always include a customer specific portion which ensures that the solution will cater for Your needs. It is also good to note that Cox controls the development of the application and further development is done largely based on customer feedback to ensure that the software meets Your needs also in the future.

Third Party Technology

Cox has always recruited only experienced people who have gained experience of calculation and reporting in their working life. Because of this our people have vast experience of using different tools as technologies. A large portion of our new customers choose Microsoft BI tools because they are effective, scalable and have modest expenses.

Below is a list of third party tools that our consultants have worked with.

Activity Based Costing:

SAS Oros
SAS ABM
SAP Profitability & Cost Management
Oracle Activa
QPR Cost Control
ProDaCapo
A&L Metify

Business Intelligence solutions:

Cognos 8 (also earlier versions)
Business Objects
SAP BW
SAS

Databases:

MS SQL Server 2008, 2005, 2000, 97
• MS Integration Services (SSIS)
Oracle 8,9,10
SAS 8, 9

Reporting / spreadsheet tools:

QlikView
Cognos 8
SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS Web Report Studio
Business Objects
Oracle Discoverer
MS Reporting Services (SSRS)
MS Analysis Services (SSAS)
MS Excel
MS Access