100th Week of AFM

Ameritas Culture Club

100

"Overlord of Expenses and Project Accounting" title was given to this Ameritas associate

Doug Burdick

200

The name of the recurrent meetings used to rationalize the PeopleSoft hierarchies which were held in the Spring & Summer 2022

Lumberjack Meetings

300

The method by which associates indicate a topic belongs in the Parking Lot or is a digression during a meeting

Squirrel Card

400

Refers to the assignment of 1-2 Ameritas associates and 1 PwC cohort to guide design and decisions during the implementation process

Three in a Box

500

College football team that our OCM roots for and is an alumni

University of Iowa (home of the Iowa Hawkeyes)

Oracle Language (Oracle-ese?)

100

PCMCS stands for . . . . 

Profit and Cost Management Cloud Services

200

Add-in used for both EPM and ERP dynamic, drill-down use of data

SmartView

300

Another name for ARE

Financials Accounting Hub (FAH)

400

ERP stands for . . . . 

Enterprise Resource Planning

500

These are the 5 Oracle EPM applications which Ameritas deployed in 2022 and 2023

EDMCS, EPBCS, PCMCS, FCCS, ARCS

Corporate Citizenship

100

Name the 2 most commonly used reporting tools in use for Oracle reports

SmartView and MS Power BI

200

Number of segments in Oracle's Chart of Account

10

300

The COA segment which ALWAYS has 0000 values in it

Future Use 

400

Name the Oracle-related segments in the Chart of Accounts (COA)

Company, Account, Product Group, Location, Insurance Type, Portfolio, Inter-Company, Cost Center, Channel, Future Use

500

The Chart of Account (COA) segment most likely to be revised and modernized AFTER go-live

Channel

Best in Show

100

The first go-live offered this improvement

August 2022, the Planning Season enjoyed use of forms to load data and make adjustments 

200

Percentage of reduction in Natural Accounts

42%

300

Laura Fender refers to this concept regarding the ledger, which is modernized outcome 

Thin Ledger

400

Percentage of expense allocations reduced across departments

~60%

500

Modernization resulted in a 30% reduction in two sets of values commonly used in PeopleSoft

Department/Cost Center and Program Codes

Dearly Departed

100

Ameritas' original Workflow Leader for FM Planning & Budgeting

Andrew Leasure

200

Associate who retired at the end of 2021 and had been a BIG contributor for the AFM A&F project

Tami Shaner

300

Ameritas female associate who led the Lumberjack Meetings in early 2022.

Shannon Short

400

This VP had a very short time at Ameritas, but everyone was saddened by her departure.

Kelly Allsup

500

Ameritas' original 2021 Project Manager for the A&F FM projects

Tom Vuotto