Suppose you work in a small company. On Friday, you learn that on Monday you will open for business with a newly acquired affiliate. And that by Wednesday you will need to file summary reports with your regulator for the combined organizations. And that in a few weeks you will have to file comprehensive regulatory balance sheets, income statements and supporting detail on assets and liabilities and cash flows and balance sheet risk. And of course your board and shareholders are intensely interested in "how the deal is working out".

Where do you start? How do you translate "their" numbers? Where do you get the maps you need for converting operational systems into "your" back office?

den Karte provides a "rapid integration map" for aligning key business metadata and is prepared to provide small and medium organizations with quick turn-around merger integration support package that includes

• ledger-to-ledger account mapping (chart of accounts of up to 1200 items)
• identification of new ledger accounts needed by the acquiring firm
• desktop application to maintain dimensional maps during interim reporting periods
• desktop application to transform journal entries from "theirs" to "yours" to facilate ledger posting until back office consolidation is completed
• desktop application to generate mapped trial balance
• maps for up to five other domains (eg org, product, etc)

Additional services are available to

• document data lineage to help you trace "their" information from operational systems into ledger entries, through translation processes and into "your" ledger
• create operational maps from the codes used on "their" systems to those necessary to convert to "your" systems
• data validation processes to help you understand and cleanse incoming data before conversion to your platforms

With den Karte support, your key personnel can focus on managing the integration instead of getting bogged down in data translation issues.

den Karte provides the tools and methods to help clients succeed with complex and time sensitive merger integration tasks. These solutions can be adapted and scaled to a variety of circumstances.