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Anaplan Accelerator: Title (Publisher) Planning

Accordion’s Title (Publisher) Planning Anaplan Accelerator is a title planning solution custom built for the publishing industry, including: gross-to-net ISBN and title series forecasting, historical unit trending, royalty calculations, and full P&L reporting.

Forecast and Analyze Profitability by Genre, Series, Title

  • Load and plan title pricing
  • Trend units for new launches based on “like” titles or ISBNs
  • Leverage historical unit sales data to drive smarter forecasts
  • Plan Returns, PPB, and Plant Costs
  • Perform “What If” analysis to better understand how to impact your financials
  • Understand comparable Gross Margins across Genres, Series, and Titles

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Calculate & Model Royalties

  • Model simple to complex royalty calculations
  • Calculations for royalty tiering and and royalty breaks
  • Intelligent royalty calculations by Genre, Title, Author, or ISBN

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Reporting & Analyze Gross to Net P&L Lines

  • Forecast full P&L lines including Sales, COGs, Returns, PPB, Royalty, and Plant Costs
  • Real-time P&L modeling and reporting to quickly understand what-if scenario models
  • Report full financials and understand variances against Actuals and prior Forecasts
  • Generate Gross Margin reports by Genre, Series, Title, Author, and Book Format

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Accordion's Anaplan Solution Accelerators

In addition to the “Title (Publisher) Planning” accelerator featured above, Accordion offers a variety of “Anaplan Accelerators” prebuilt to expedite your deployment process, improve ROI, and reduce implementation risk. Explore them:

Accelerated P&L Planning (APP)

A fully built P&L planning solution based on best practices: driver-based forecasts, historical trending, insightful analytics, and comparative reporting.

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Financial Consolidations & Analytics (FC&A)

A fully built financial consolidations solution based on best practices: aggregation, intercompany eliminations, cash flow reporting, non-standard ownership, journal entries, insightful analytics, and flexible FX.

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Hospitality Management

An Anaplan solution tailored for the management and analysis of hospitality industry planning, including: key metric analysis, occupancy rate and price forecast, and P&L reporting.

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Enterprise Compensation Planning

A dynamic workforce planning and management solution for both top-down and bottom-up planning including: driver-based forecasting, what-if scenario planning, and employee compensation management.

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Gross-to-Net Chargeback Forecasting & Analytics

An automated chargeback modeling solution that streamlines the gross-to-net planning process, including: unit trending, calculating distributor fees, returns, and rebates, along with full chargeback and gross-to-net analytics.

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Real Estate Management & Forecasting

An Anaplan solution built for businesses in the real estate sector, including: a high level summary dashboard, detailed key metric analysis, property management, depreciation scheduling, and more.

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Capital Asset Management

An Anaplan solution for in-depth asset management for businesses in any sector, including: a high-level summary dashboard, full capital asset planning, detailed expense breakdowns, depreciation scheduling by asset, financing analysis, and more.

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Telecom Planning & Analytics

A fully built P&L planning solution tailored to the telecom industry, including: subscriber forecasting, ARPU analytics and what if analysis, driver-based telecom expense planning, workforce comp planning, and fully featured comparative reporting.

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SaaS Revenue Modeling

An Anaplan solution built for SaaS businesses to easily source CRM data and drive real-time forecasting, including: CRM Integration, opportunity management, renewal management, and ad conversion forecast pipeline summary.

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Meet (Some of) Accordion's Anaplan Experts

Nick Mascia
Nick Mascia
Director | Master Anaplanner

Nick is a Director with close to a decade of FP&A planning and system implementation experience for companies across various industries and sectors. As a certified Master Anaplanner, he specializes in delivering end-to-end Anaplan implementations for planning and modelling needs that fall under the umbrella of the CFO's team.  Read more

Wilson Dang
Wilson Dang
Senior Consultant

Wilson is a Senior Consultant with five years of experience in traditional FP&A, working in investment banking, consumer banking, and private wealth. His experience in Corporate Performance Management includes working within fields such as consulting staffing, telecom, and marketing.  Read more

Lorenzo DiSante
Lorenzo DiSante
Senior Consultant

Lorenzo is an Anaplan Implementation Senior Consultant with over 5 years of financial reporting and analytical experience. His expertise is mostly centered in the banking industry, with additional experience working in auto industry consulting. Regardless of industry, Lorenzo is always laser-focused on meeting client needs.  Read more

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