Product Features

• Familiar and intuitive Excel interface.
• Context sensitive help text. Comprehensive user guide.
• Validation rules check for data consistency.
• Fiscal year can start in any month.
• Forecast can start in any month. Maximum of 6 years can be forecast in one file. No limit if multiple files are used.
• Forecasts can be based on years, quarters, months and weeks.
• Maximum of 10 user defined revenue streams can be forecast in one file. No limit if multiple files are used.
• Within each cost category, 10 user defined costs can be created.
• Costs can be split between fixed and variable for contribution and breakeven analysis.
• Seasonal sales indexes can be created for distributing monthly sales.
• Includes utilities to speed up data entry.
• Views are collapsible for yearly and quarterly summaries.
• Drill down facilities allows user to defined the level of detail on screen views and in hardcopy reports.
• What-if scenarios and simulations can be performed without loosing your original data.
• Production schedules can be created to forecast inventory levels.
• The collection of receivables and payment of purchases can be scheduled for more accurate cash-flow forecasting.
• Allows for capital investment planning with flexible payments schedules and automatic depreciation based on user defined rates.
• Includes comprehensive financial planning tools for treasury and cash management, including automatic and manual lines of credit and investment calculations.
• Calculates income tax based on user defined rules.
• Allows for the creation of provisions that don't effect cash-flow.
• Cost of sales and contribution reports at product level in value and percentage of sales.
• Income statement in value and percentage of sales.
• Balance Sheets that automatically remain balanced.
• Cash-flow statement and reconciliation of changes in liquid funds.
• Link to other Excel files to create your own layouts for Income, Balance Sheet and Cash-flow statements.
• Key ratios include Altman's Z score model for forecast financial distress.
• Graphs illustrate trends in Sales, Net Income and Cash Flow.
• The Database Utility allows forecasts to be downloaded to Microsoft Access for integration with database applications.
• Sales, purchasing and cost databases allow for extensive commenting on the underlying forecast assumptions. Comments and notes can be printed with their respective revenue or cost category and monthly value.
• Multi-lingual support.