Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Service

Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Service

Course Summary

The Oracle Profitability and Cost Management (PCM) Cloud Service is a specialized module within Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) suite that enables businesses to analyze costs, profitability, and business performance drivers. This training provides comprehensive, hands-on expertise in configuring models that help organizations allocate indirect costs, improve transparency, and support strategic decision-making.

Ideal for professionals involved in financial analysis, costing, and enterprise performance management, the course is aligned with industry use cases to deliver both practical implementation skills and conceptual understanding.

Why Choose This Course

As organizations demand better insights into profitability across products, customers, and channels, Oracle PCM Cloud has emerged as a powerful solution. This course helps you:

  • Build the expertise to design cost and profitability models

  • Understand allocation logic for shared services, overhead, and cost tracing

  • Develop and maintain models that align with enterprise performance goals

  • Deliver solutions for finance transformation and operational visibility

  • Learn from trainers with real-world Oracle EPM consulting experience

Whether you’re part of a finance team, a consulting firm, or an implementation partner, this training enables you to deploy and support high-value PCM Cloud projects confidently.

Who Should Enroll

This course is ideal for:

  • Finance professionals and cost accountants using Oracle EPM tools

  • Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) consultants

  • FP&A teams seeking to improve cost transparency and profitability insights

  • IT/business analysts supporting financial modeling systems

  • Implementation teams deploying Oracle EPM Cloud with PCM modules

  • Professionals looking to expand their Oracle Cloud EPM skill set

Skills You Will Gain

  • Designing detailed cost and profitability models for complex enterprises

  • Allocating direct/indirect costs and tracing profitability across multiple dimensions

  • Understanding the intersection of finance, data models, and cloud architecture

  • Implementing rule-based allocations using Oracle’s Calculation Manager

  • Interpreting output for business decision-making, margin analysis, and scenario modeling

  • Supporting audit compliance, performance tracking, and financial transparency

Career Benefits

Upon completing this course, you will:

  • Be qualified for roles such as Oracle EPM Consultant, Costing Analyst, PCM Cloud Specialist, or FP&A Lead

  • Gain the ability to deploy and manage profitability models for mid to large enterprises

  • Support business units in cost control, pricing optimization, and performance benchmarking

  • Add niche Oracle Cloud expertise to your resume — a highly valued skill in global finance and IT transformation projects

  • Be prepared to contribute to digital finance modernization initiatives across multiple industries

Bridge Finance and Strategy with Oracle PCM Cloud

Gain the tools and insight to help businesses understand where they earn and spend the most — and why. Become a profitability and cost management expert with Oracle Cloud.

Enroll today and elevate your career in enterprise finance and analytics.

Course Syllabus

Modules

Profitability and Cost Management Overview

  • Describe Profitability and Cost Management essential concepts
  • Describe Profitability and Cost Management system architecture and requirements

    • Oracle EPM Cloud Foundation

  • Set up and configure Cloud security
  • Build EPM Cloud automation routines Job Scheduler, EPMAutomate
  • Back up applications and migrate artifacts
  • Data Management
  • Describe use cases for Data Management
  • Working with Data Management

    • Creating a PCM application

  • Explain the dimensions and requirements
  • Create an application with dimensions from flat files

    • Managing a PCM Custom Application Build

  • Perform a Pre-Update Analysis and Update Dimensions
  • Set up PCM security
  • Manage the Point of View (POV)

    • Creating and Managing Allocations

  • Explain rules and rule sets (including contexts, rule types, and calculation sequences and options)
  • Create allocation rules
  • Create custom calculation rules
  • Mass edit rules and rule sets

    • Viewing and Validating Models

  • Explain model views
  • Perform rule balancing for application validation
  • Perform an allocation trace
  • Perform model and rule data validation

    • Working with PCM Analytics

  • Describe types of queries run from the Intelligence Panel
  • Create analysis views
  • Create dashboards
  • Create profit curves

    • Using Financial Reporting

  • Design reports using Financial Reporting Web Studio

    • Using Smart View

  • Describe Smart View and EPM Cloud extensions

    • Migrating to Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management

  • Describe migration to Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management
  • Working with the migration template
  • Running migrations
  • Post-migration tasks

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