Why Longview Tax Planning? Longview’s powerful workflow functionality, that includes e-mail notifications and alerts, simplifies the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes and makes it easy for users to collaborate by tracking and communicating the progress of their plans and budgets. Flexible rolling forecasts, based on real-time information, provide greater visibility into future operating performance. Longview Tax Planning ties business plans, budgets and forecasts to strategic objectives, operational goals and targets. - Single source of tax sensitized data including actuals, forecast and planning - Easy to create and use web input templates and reports - Rollup and Consolidation over multiple years n Workflow and approval process - Comprehensive modeling tool - Versioning and What-if Analysis

1. Longview Tax Planning
Longview Tax Planning
includes:
n Longview Tax Enterprise Platform –
Longview Tax Planning is built on the
Longview platform. The platform is an
enterprise-grade application that provides
security, flexibility, and scalability.
n Advanced Modeling – Longview provides
the ability to model tax financial
outcomes using both bottom-up and
top-down business drivers.
n “What-if” Scenarios – Longview provides
the ability to create limitless versions of
the planning and forecasting to perform
full in-depth analysis.
n Longview Integration Suite – Centralize
any number of data source systems,
databases and applications – including
ERP/general ledgers such as Oracle, SAP
and Microsoft or feed any point solutions
such as compliance or provision – via
Longview’s bi-directional connectors.
n Web Input Templates – Collect
standardized, manually entered data from
users anywhere in the world via the web.
New templates are easy to define and
create for any data collection need.
n Multidimensional Database and
Configurable Data Storage – Collect,
consolidate, reconcile and summarize
data at any level of detail and in any
The Tax Challenge
Charting the tax outlook is a core function of today’s tax departments,
but one that remains seriously under-supported by technology. Many
tax departments still rely on legacy ERP systems, spreadsheets and data
cubes for their planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. With
data dispersed across multiple systems, this approach is costly and
inefficient. Tax professionals are forced to spend most of their available
time on the mechanics of data collection, leaving little or no time for
in-depth analysis.
Why Longview Tax Planning?
To take control of the future, tax leaders need an arsenal of
sophisticated analytics applications and modeling tools fueled by a
single source of rock-solid data.
Longview Tax Planning is a comprehensive, Web-based application that
drives a wide range of operational planning processes, all from the
single repository of real-time, accurate information provided by
Longview Tax Data Platform.
With Longview Tax Planning, you can:
n Create flexible rolling forecasts, based on real-time information, to
gain greater visibility into future operating performance
n Tie business plans, budgets and forecasts to strategic objectives,
operational goals and targets
n Model tax financial outcomes using both bottom-up and top-down
business drivers
n Generate limitless what-if scenarios and versions of your planning
and forecasting for full in-depth analysis
n Make it easy for your tax departments to collaborate by tracking
and communicating progress – Longview’s powerful workflow
functionality, including e-mail notifications and alerts, hugely
simplifies the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.

2. rollup you choose to define. Store data across multiple
time periods – including months, quarters and years –
for actuals, as well as the forecast and planning
timeframes.
n Foreign Currency Translation – Simultaneously translate
any number of currencies for global consolidation and
reporting.
n Web Reports and Longview Reporting and Analysis –
Run standard reports and ad-hoc queries to create and
save regularly used reports. Group reports and print
them in batch with one simple step.
n Longview for Excel – Integrate data from Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets into your Longview database. Easily view
and refresh your tax data in the familiar Excel format
through a Longview for Excel workpaper.
n Document Repository – Attach and view documents in
web data collection templates and web reports.
n Workflow – Track progress and status at every level of
the process.
n Microsoft SharePoint Integration – View Longview
dashboard panels in a Microsoft SharePoint dashboard
via links to web input templates and web reports, the
Longview document repository, and graphs, tables, and
KPIs.
n Business Intelligence (BI) Integration – Connect with any
third-party BI or reporting tool such as MicroStrategy,
Cognos, Business Objects/Crystal, and Microsoft
PowerPivot.
Longview Tax Planning
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The Longview Tax Advantage
n A single, centralized starting point for tax data
management, as well as reporting and analysis
n Improved visibility due to seamless integration with
your G/Ls and tax compliance systems
n Less time spent manually gathering data, more time
available for value added analysis
n Improved efficiency through standardized and
automated tax calculations
n Advanced analytics that help you energize planning
and strategy
n Faster and more accurate, transparent, and auditable
tax provision improving the confidence in its accuracy
and timeliness
n Faster, more accurate, more transparent, more
auditable tax provision
n More control and reduced risk due to less reliance on
spreadsheets
n Flexible deployment options:
hosted/software-as-a-service (SaaS) or on-premise
n Easy to use and maintain
n Easy to install: tax service providers from many top
audit and service firms are certified to implement
Longview Tax
Longview is:
n Recognized as ‘Visionary’ by Gartner
n Ranked #1 in customer satisfaction, value, sales,
support and value for money by Gartner
n Backed by 20 years of proven experience

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About Longview Solutions
Longview Solutions provides a corporate performance management (CPM) and tax data management platform that leading companies
such as Aon, Brunswick, Lexmark, The Home Depot and Trustmark use to drive performance with speed, visibility and financial integrity.
Since 1994, Longview has been helping clients create a single repository of financial truth from which all, or any one of the following
key financial processes can be performed: financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, disclosure management/XBRL reporting,
statutory consolidation, management reporting, profitability analytics, tax data collection, tax provision/reporting and tax planning.
Longview is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Philadelphia, Chicago (USA), London (UK), and Amsterdam
(NL).
For more information please visit www.longview.com.
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