North American Student Dashboard Challenge – Business Case Questions

Students, post your business case questions for the North American Student Dashboard Challenge here.
Good luck with the challenge!

Two of the KPIs which need to be included in the dashboard are:
1. Income vs Expenses
2. Performance to Budget
There is no income statement in the attached excel files, we are just given statement of cash flow. For individual items under revenue and expense we need an income statement. This is required for designing dashboard for KPI 1.
For KPI 2, the case study asks to display comparison of Actual vs Budget for 4 revenue items - corporate, individual, foundations, and special events - as a chart component. The attached excel files does not have adequate information on this either.
I see only two spreadsheets in the Excel file JA Financial Statements 2006 - 2011 - 1. Statements of Functional Expense; and 2. Statements of Cash Flow - Table.
Please help what needs to be done here. The case study says to refer - Statement of Activites Tab from JA Financial Statements.xls for KPI 1 and KPI 2. However, there is no such spreadsheet on this Excel file. I have downloaded the project data from the following link: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/uac/index?rid=/library/uuid/30ee1571-2533-2f10-31bd-8826243425ee
Thanks,
Chandan

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  • ATTN: Oracle North American HCM Customers: Q1 2007 Statutory Update Release

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