Abstract:
A financial cost prediction system method, wherein the subserver of each department is connected to the main server, and the initial cost data of each department is screened and classified via the main server to form financial reports. The financial reports and further organized into a standard cost account, and are provided to the finance department user terminal for to access the financial reports and to compare to the standard cost account. Also, the present system enables the initial cost data to automatically compile into financial reports and sets the schedules of the main server, so as to automatically correct erroneous financial reports. By using this system, to predict the cost and expense for the coming month or the coming year can be obtained.

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION  
         [0001]    This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 89119719, filed Sep. 25, 2000.  
         BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
         [0002]    1. Field of the Invention  
           [0003]    The present invention relates to a financial cost prediction system and method. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and a system of organizing the initial cost data provided by each department into financial reports and standard cost account.  
           [0004]    2. Description of the Related Art  
           [0005]    In large-scale industry, since there are huge operations in every department, many problems arise during compilation of month-end or year-end financial reports. At month-end or year-end, each department will only further organize the initial cost data of the department into tables, whereupon the tables are sent to the finance department. The finance department must compare the initial cost data one by one, and provide the initial cost data required by the financial reports. The large quantities of data in the initial cost data will cause the finance department data to be misread or misinterpreted, thereby causing the data in the financial reports to be inaccurate. It is time- and resource-consuming for the finance department to investigate the problem areas since this entails reviewing the initial cost data anew in order to locate the errors, as well as recalculating and tallying up the initial cost data anew.  
           [0006]    In summary, according to the above-described related art technique, although the financial reports can be compiled manually, however, there are many disadvantages:  
           [0007]    1. The rate of numerical accuracy is very low.  
           [0008]    2. The initial cost data in the related art is time-consuming as it must be manually selected to match the data in the financial reports and then further organized.  
           [0009]    3. When there is an error in the financial reports, the finance department must again review the initial cost data, recalculate and tally up the initial cost data and is therefore, inefficient.  
         SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
         [0010]    In light of the above, the invention provides a financial cost prediction system and method, wherein the aim is to automatically screen and classify the initial cost data via this system for compilation into a financial report. Thus, the rate of numerical accuracy is raised, and the financial reports can be organized into a standard cost account, thereby facilitating the aim of estimating financial costs. Also, when there is a numerical error in the financial reports, the corrected data can be re-entered into the main server and a schedule can be set to create a new financial report, thus saving time and effort.  
           [0011]    As embodied and broadly described herein, the invention provides a financial cost prediction system and method. The financial cost prediction system is related to compiling the initial cost data of a finance department into financial reports, organizing the financial reports into a standard cost account automated or window system. Each department sends the initial cost data to the subserver of each department, whereupon each subserver stores the initial cost data into the corresponding sub-database. When the main server must retrieve and organize the initial cost data, the screened and classified initial cost data is compiled into financial reports by the main server. The main server further organizes the financial reports into a standard cost account. If an error should occur in the standard cost account, the initial cost data in the financial reports will be checked for errors. If there is an error in the initial cost data, then the finance department user terminal will correct the erroneous financial report.  
           [0012]    The present invention is made of core of a main server and a main database, wherein the initial cost data is screened and classified into financial reports via the main server and the main database. Thus, the finance department user terminal is provided with access to the financial tables, the financial tables can automatically adjust and can predict future financial costs, and can set the schedules to automatically correct erroneous financial reports.  
           [0013]    It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed, 
       
    
    
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       [0014]    The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention, and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings,  
         [0015]    [0015]FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention; and  
         [0016]    [0016]FIG. 2 is a flow diagram according to one preferred embodiment of this invention. 
     
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS  
       [0017]    [0017]FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention. The financial cost prediction system includes a plurality of subservers  112 ,  114  and  116 , a plurality of databases  106 ,  108  and  110 , main server  118 , main database  120 , finance department user terminal  122  and finance department database  124 .  
         [0018]    The plurality of subservers  112 ,  114  and  116  correspond to each of the departments  100 ,  102  and  104  respectively, and are used to receive the initial cost data sent from the departments  100 ,  102  and  104 . The plurality of databases  106 ,  108  and  110  correspond to each of the subservers  112 ,  114  and  116  respectively, and are used to store the initial cost data sent by the subservers  112 ,  114  and  116 . The main server  118  is connected to the subservers  112 ,  114  and  116  and receives the initial cost data from the subservers  112 ,  114  and  116 . The main server  118  also organizes and compiles the initial cost data into a financial table, and further arranges the financial table into a standard cost account. The main database  120  is connected to the main server  118  and stores the initial cost data, the financial reports and the standard cost account are sent through the main server. The finance department database  124  is connected to the finance department user terminal  122  and is used to store the financial reports and the standard cost account sent from the department user terminal  122 .  
         [0019]    The departments  100 ,  102  and  104  send the initial cost data to each sub server  112 ,  114  and  116 . The initial cost data sent by each of the departments  100 ,  102  and  104  includes the raw wafer quantities, raw wafer costs, production shelf life, discarded raw wafer costs, as well as project-testing costs and loaned equipment costs. The subservers  112 ,  114  and  116  store the initial cost data into the corresponding sub-databases  106 ,  108  and  110 . The main server  118  will retrieve the initial cost data from the sub-databases  106 ,  108  and  110  corresponding to the subservers  112 ,  114  and  116 . The main server  118  further organizes the initial cost data includes a process whereby the initial cost data is screened and classified. The main server  118  stores the screened and classified initial cost data into the corresponding main database  120 . The main database  120  has a financial data generating zone where stores the initial cost data screened and classified by the main server  118 . After the initial cost data has been screened and classified, the main server  118  compiles the screened and classified initial cost data into a financial report. The main server  118  compiles the initial cost data by a process such as by setting schedules of the main server. The initial cost data stored in the financial data generating zone is compiled into a financial report according to the schedules of the main server. The compiled financial reports include wafer financial reports, period-start/period-end financial reports, ENG financial reports, MOVE financial reports, Yield financial reports and Others financial reports. The wafer financial reports include summary reports based on raw wafer quantity, raw wafer cost and raw wafer total cost. The period-start/period-end financial reports further include initial production cost summary reports, end production cost summary reports and production shelf life detailed reports. ENG financial reports further include project-testing cost summary reports, loaned equipment cost summary reports and owner change cost detailed reports. The MOVE financial reports further include raw wafer summary reports, raw wafer cost analysis reports and heavy industry production cost detailed reports. Daily Move Check detailed reports and YIELD financial reports further include productivity difference detailed reports and discarded production cost summary reports. The Others financial reports further include production volume detailed reports, production cost detailed reports and production testing transfer cost summary reports. The main server  118  further organizes the financial reports into a standard cost account. When there is an error in the standard cost account, the initial cost account can be checked for errors and the finance department user terminal  122  will correct the erroneous financial reports. The correction process of the finance department user terminal  122  includes correcting the initial cost data that form the financial reports, and setting the schedules of the main server and compiling a new financial report.  
         [0020]    [0020]FIG. 2 is a flow diagram according to one preferred embodiment of this invention. The financial cost prediction method procedure includes inputting the initial cost data into the cost prediction system in the step s 200 . The inputted initial cost data includes raw wafer quantities, raw wafer costs, production shelf life, production discard costs, project-testing costs and loaned equipment costs. In step s 202 , the financial cost prediction system will organize the initial cost data. The procedures of organizing the initial cost data include screening and classifying the initial cost data, and storing the initial cost data thereafter. In step s 204 , the financial cost prediction system will compile a financial report based on the schedules. The compiled financial reports include wafer financial reports, period-start/period-end financial reports, ENG financial reports, MOVE financial reports, Yield financial reports and Others financial reports. The wafer financial reports include raw wafer quantity summary reports, raw wafer cost summary reports and raw wafer total cost summary reports. The period-start/period-end financial reports include initial production cost summary reports, production end cost summary reports and production shelf life detailed reports. ENG financial reports further include project-testing cost summary reports, loaned equipment cost summary reports and owner change cost detailed reports. MOVE financial reports further include raw wafer summary reports, production cost analysis reports and heavy production cost detailed reports. The Daily Move Check detailed reports and the Yield financial reports further include productivity difference detailed reports and production discard cost summary reports. Others financial reports further include production volume detailed reports, production cost detailed reports and production testing transfer cost summary report. In step s 206 , the financial cost prediction system organizes the financial reports into a standard cost account. In step s 207 , the finance department makes a comparison between the data in the standard cost account and the data in the previous standard cost account. In step s 208 , if the data in the standard cost account are greatly different from the data in the previous standard cost account, then in step s 210 , the finance department will verify if there is a great difference between data in the standard cost account and the data in the previous standard cost account. In step s 212 , if the data in the financial reports are greatly different from the previous financial reports, then the data of the initial cost data of the financial report will be checked for errors. If the initial cost data has an error, then in step s 214 , the finance department will edit the data of the initial cost data. The editing procedures of the initial cost data by the finance department include setting the schedules of the financial cost prediction system, compiling a new financial report and re-organizing it into a new standard cost account. Otherwise, the initial cost data can be directly corrected and the corrected initial cost data can be recalculated anew. The financial department compiles the initial cost data and tranmits to the financial cost prediction system. In step s 204 , the finance department resets the schedules of the financial cost prediction system and compiles and organizes the financial reports into a standard cost account until the standard cost account is accurate, so that the financial cost system can be set forth.  
         [0021]    In summary, there are several advantages to the present invention:  
         [0022]    1. The financial cost prediction system enables the initial cost data to automatically organize into a financial report, increasing the numerical accuracy of the financial reports.  
         [0023]    2. The finance department can set the schedules of the main server to have self-correcting financial reports.  
         [0024]    3. it facilitates the aim of predicting future financial costs.  
         [0025]    It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present invention covers modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.