Whether producing detailed, or high level forecasts, this software is quick and easy to use.
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Developed in conjunction with small and medium-sized businesses and accountants
Sage Financial Forecasting is easy to use and comes complete with a variety of time-saving
features enabling more sophisticated and accurate forecasts to be produced at even
greater speed than ever before.
| Quick and reliable forecast creation |
Our intuitive look and feel makes creating and navigating
forecasts much quicker and easier, minimising the complications and errors often associated
with spreadsheet forecasting. |
| Create multi-year forecasts |
Covers as many years as you require for your business forecasts
(50 years max). |
| 12 or 13-period forecasts |
Choose from 12 or 13 periods to suit your business accounting periods. |
| Enter data at weekly, monthly or annual levels |
Enter data for any period and view at all levels. |
| Create "What if?" scenarios |
Create a range of "What if?" scenarios to help analyse your business
sensitivity to change. |
| Professional reports |
Prepare comprehensive Profit & Loss, Funds Flow, Balance Sheet, Year-on-Year
and Cash Flow reports with greater accuracy. |
| Improve the accuracy of your forecasts |
Compare your actual performance with your budgets and re-forecast accordingly. You
will find it easy to produce variance reports and to re-forecast based on actual data. |
| Automatic calculations |
VAT, PAYE, NI, Corporation Tax and Bank Interest are all calculated automatically. |
| Immediately assess the impact on your key values |
See the immediate impact on your most important values (e.g. Net Profit)
as you enter data. |
| Create unlimited departments |
A department can have sub-departments and as many sales and cost sections
as you require. |
| Project your stock purchases, usage and levels, including Bills
of Materials |
Ensure that you manage your stock levels to maximise available cash. |
| Prior Profit & Loss |
When starting to forecast part-way through an accounting period, the
Prior P & L feature allows you to enter a single cumulative value against each profit and
loss record for the already-lapsed periods, thus saving you time and effort. |
| Forecast the effect of taking out loans |
Loans and HP agreements are important ways of funding expansion - make
sure you understand the impact of repayments. |
| Forecast your wage costs on a summary or per-employee basis |
Accurately forecast wage costs including NI and Pension contributions. |
| Easily create provisions for bad debts and obsolete stock |
Ensure that your forecasts take account of customers failing to pay you
and stock becoming unusable. |
| Model the impact of factoring and stock financing |
Easily work out the impact that these schemes could have on your
business. |
| Integrates with Sage products and with Microsoft Excel |
Forecast data can be linked to sources including Sage Line 50,
Sage Line 100, Sage MMS (up to 2.3) and Sage Payroll, plus Microsoft Excel. Change the data
in the link and your forecast is automatically updated. |
| Multi-currency forecasting |
Data can be entered in foreign currencies, allowing rapid adjustment if exchange
rates change, and data is converted to one currency in the report set. |
| Cash receipts and payments |
Input figures based on cash receipts and payments and the
software will work out all the VAT calculations for net sales. |