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Herbalife, operating in 70+ countries, has adopted a phased approach in its journey to world-class EPM. The first leg was to implement Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management and Essbase reporting. Later phases included calculating transfer profit, implementing cash flow reporting and rolling forecasts, and an application to better analyze results and spot trends with commentary included. This presentation will describe Herbalife’s requirements and how they were translated into design, the phases, data flow and architecture and help you roadmap your own journey to world class. The presentation will include design and code tips and tricks for transfer pricing and allocations and will describe the custom-built analytical Hyperion Planning application which is used to adjust the results for this year and last year to facilitate variance analysis and identify trends. The application automates calculations and the preparation of Flux Analysis, Flash Reconciliation and Consolidated and Country level reports using a series of flags to reduce maintenance and give the users the ability to include/exclude each normalization item by report and flags to include/exclude normalization items for year-on-year analysis. The new application and automated processes expedites the month-end closing process, making more time available for analytical work and reducing the risk of error.