Panel Review by Jeff Ho (Brief version: removing logo and all confidential info)

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PANEL REVIEWJeff Ho

Finance Co-op

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Growing in TI

• Education• Competencies

Me

• Accounting Practice• Database• Cooperation

Learning

• Automation Projects• Goal setting• Invoice Reconciliation Automation System• Closing Automation System

Contribution

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ME

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Education

Science Track

Jianguo High School

BBA, Accounting

National Taiwan

University

MA in Statistics

Columbia University

Programing Skills

Accounting & Business

Quantitative Analysis

Data Science

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• Statistical Analysis• Financial Modeling• Machine Learning• Data Visualization

• C, C++, Python• HTML, CSS• R, SAS• Database, SQL, SAP,

XBRL

• Financial Market• Security Research• New Technology

• Financial Accounting• Financial Reporting• Cost and Managerial

accounting• Accounting Information

Systems

Accounting Expertise

Business Acumen

Quantitative Analysis

Programming Skills

Competencies

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LEARNING

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Accounting Practice

Collect Organize ReportFinancial Data

Financial Info

Accounting Information System

• SAP• EMR• BOI

Financial Reporting

• Invoice recon process

• Closing process

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Database

What is the location of databases?How do I access the databases?Is data in the databases intact?

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Cooperation

IT Team JeffFinance Team

Database Structure

System Support

Accounting Logic

Financial Reporting

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CONTRIBUTION

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Automation Projects

• Automate invoice reconciliation process to save time and to reduce errors.

Invoice Reconciliation

automation System

• Automate and optimize closing process to enhance overall efficiency of the company.

Closing Automation

System

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Goal Setting

• Precise calculation• Well-defined logic• Bug-free program

Accuracy

• Simple• User friendly• Fast computation

Time Saving

My GoalCompany Goal

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Development Process

Requirement Design Implementation Verification Maintenance

Invoice Reconciliation Automation System

20 days

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Invoice Reconciliation Automation System

Requirement Design Implementation Verification Maintenance

1. Discuss system details with Finance team and IT team

2. Translate financial reporting logic to programming and database logic

3. Define calculation rules of the system

4. Define decision logic of TI disposition

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Invoice Reconciliation Automation System

Requirement Design Implementation Verification Maintenance

1. Investigate differences between system output and manual output

2. Fix errors

3. Fix missing contents

4. Design user friendly output format

5. Adopt a simple and clean UI

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Invoice Reconciliation Automation System

Requirement Design Implementation Verification Maintenance

1. Enhance system robustness

2. Improve system compatibility

3. Prepare “User’s Manual”, showing system demonstration and specifying proper input format

4. Help users operate the system and solve various problems

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Manual Automation0.00

20.00

40.00

60.00

80.00

100.00

120.00

140.00

Organizing Time Running Time

Checking Time Processing Time

Benefit

44 minutes

120 minutes

63%

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•76 minutes time saving per subcon per month

•18240 minutes time saving per year

•304 hours time saving per year

Benefit

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Development Process

Requirement Design Implementation Verification Maintenance

Invoice Reconciliation Automation System

Closing Automation System 20 days

21 days

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Closing Automation System

Requirement Design Implementation Verification Maintenance

1. Exactly catch accountants’ demands and closing logic

2. Discuss system issues with Finance team and IT team

3. Finish “Software Requirements Specification” according to the consensus of both teams

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Closing Automation System

Requirement Design Implementation Verification Maintenance

1. Carry accountants’ needs and logic out through design of the closing automation systems

2. Define data integration process

3. Define decision logic of reversal process

4. Design a simple and direct UI

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Closing Automation System

Requirement Design Implementation Verification Maintenance

1. Identify data source and acquire query strings

2. Continuously and closely cooperating with IT team, debugging the program and enhancing the system performance

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Benefit

11:00 pm6:00 pm

ManualAutomation

Off duty Data ready

Automation

Deadline

1st work day

2nd work day

1. Shorten processing time2. Start closing process earlier

Finish closing process much earlier