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Hi Community,   Hoping to get some ideation from headcount / workforce planning pros out there.    Assuming you already have a typical P&L (accrual) forecast for all major Payroll costs: Gross Payroll, Taxes, Benefits, Commissions, Bonus, etc. that you trust to be accurate - does anyone have an opinion on some typical ways to forecast the Cash for these expenses? Some complexities exist around different Countries/Regions having different Tax payment timings, for example, but can anyone offer some high level guidance?   Do you typically get opinions from Accounting folks and simply add in assumptions about the timing between accrued Payroll forecast and when the actual Cash impacts will hit? Do you build out seasonal and regional rules? Do you look at past Cash actuals for these accounts? Our client's current solution is overcomplicated (we are working on simplifying a beastly 13,000 character formula as a starting place, attached to this question) and attempts to spread the Payroll expense forecast across months based on user inputs, and the client finds it to consistently be 10-15% off the cash Actuals when they compare versions, when it should be relatively straightforward to forecast these cashflows.    Thanks for any help and brainstorming on this one.  ... View more

Hi Community,   Hoping to get some ideation from headcount / workforce planning pros out there.    Assuming you already have a typical P&L (accrual) forecast for all major Payroll costs: Gross Payroll, Taxes, Benefits, Commissions, Bonus, etc. that you trust to be accurate - does anyone have an opinion on some typical ways to forecast the Cash for these expenses? Some complexities exist around different Countries/Regions having different Tax payment timings, for example, but can anyone offer some high level guidance?   Do you typically get opinions from Accounting folks and simply add in assumptions about the timing between accrued Payroll forecast and when the actual Cash impacts will hit? Do you build out seasonal and regional rules? Do you look at past Cash actuals for these accounts? Our client's current solution is overcomplicated (we are working on simplifying a beastly 13,000 character formula as a starting place, attached to this question) and attempts to spread the Payroll expense forecast across months based on user inputs, and the client finds it to consistently be 10-15% off the cash Actuals when they compare versions, when it should be relatively straightforward to forecast these cashflows.    Thanks for any help and brainstorming on this one.    @rustamarslanov  ... View more

I suggest implementing a feature where we can use Saved Export Definitions as Import Data Sources. Right now we can use a File or Connect to Anaplan Model - I would love to be able to select Saved Export Definitions in addition to current option of Lists, Modules and Saved Views.    The natural place for this, in my opinion, would be in the Connect to Anaplan Model menu (List, Module, Saved View and now Export Definition).   Off the top of my head, this would be extremely powerful for: Exporting and Re-Importing Model History for analysis, Exporting and Re-Importing Model Users list for various uses (I know you can workaround with User dim module), Exporting and Re-Importing Actions menu (for automatically analyzing things like the last time a process was run). All of these examples are possible today but require either tedious human interaction (export and download file manually, re-upload manually) or a custom integration using API. With this proposed feature, you could do it all with one click and never download a file to machine or server.   Overall this would be another step in the right direction: Workflow.      Side note: This is different than this and this.   This is very similar to idea posted here, the only difference is it is more broad (to just generally use Saved Exports as sources, not specifically Settings menu) and hopefully can keep the conversation alive.    ... View more