About the PandA Quick Start Manual

This manual will take you, step-by-step, through exercises that are meant to introduce you quickly and informatively through the PandA model. In the following pages you will learn to:

• Report and Plan via a provided Income Statement spreadsheet that accesses all business data within the model, by Version (Actual, Budget, Forecast); Entity; Department; Year; Month; Account.
• Simulate budget contribution entry and utilize various Drivers for Plan scenarios across selected Accounts, as well as other means to enter data for collaborative budgeting and forecasting.
• Model management, including clearing parts/all of the model; understanding Security; Default and Custom Subsets, and; saving Slices to the Cloud, for collaborative planning and reporting applications.
• Create your own ad hoc analytics and reports using PowerExcel's features.
• Lastly, there is a Resources section concerning the PowerExcel Sidebar and Add-In ribbon.

Important

The topics discussed in this Quick Start manual, and many others, are also covered in the PowerExcel User Manual, another resource to learn how to work with the PandA model.