Can you share Bex Calculated Key Figures in BI-IP

We have a requirement to establish P&L planning for a company. Two questions:
1. There are a number of calculations that are required for various values (i.e. current month, previous month, current month contract to date, previous month contract to date). I am trying to determine if I should build these calculations into the query using C-KFs or apply them during ETL as multiple cumulative key figures? Data volume is small (200 records a month) so we were thinking a key figure based model (instead of using cost elements) for this as they don't utilize FI in ECC in a typical fashion.
2. After we get this initial data into SAP BI for reporting, we would like simulate it using plan/forecast versions. In BI-IP I learned that it can use R-KF & C-KF as it uses BeX. If I create a bunch of C-KFs, can I utilize those calculations in BI-IP so I don't have to create FOX formulas for them?
Thanks!

Thanks for your responses.... Unfortuntately, I need to plan on some of these values so it sounds like CKFs won't work for me. I wonder why SAP claims BI-IP can utilize CKFs if you can't save any of the results of these? Is it possible to save them as planning items?
Also, if I have to do formula/ABAP transformations on the update rules for the flat files coming in, can I leverage any of that in BI-IP if they are on the same infoprovider? I know FOX fairly well and can off-set time periods (i.e. current month, previous month), but I don't know how to cumulative values in the ABAP routines nor time periods off-sets.
Please advise if there are any good sources for this documentation.
Thanks so much!
-Matt
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