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Sage WinForecast Professional
Overview
It has long been recognised that forecasting and budgeting are disciplines key to the success of any business. Forecasts allow business to identify any potential problems and take action to avert them, or to identify opportunities that can be exploited with a bit of astute planning. Sage produces a forecasting solution to allow you to get to grips with the planning of your business- Sage WinForecast Professional.
Sage WinForecast Professional allows you to create forecasts for your business that can either be as detailed or as high level as you need as well as allowing you to consider the future of your business from as many angles as you can imagine - "What if the costs of raw materials increase by 10%?", "What if I take on more sales staff?", "Can I afford to increase my advertising spend?"
Creating a forecast is easy and you don't have to worry about all of the double entry and complicated calculations - they've all been taken care of. All of the reports you'll need e.g. profit and loss, cash flow are supplied with the program and can be viewed as soon as you've entered some values.
The complex areas that affect your business, such as VAT and Corporation Tax are automatically calculated so you don't have to spend time working them out - you can spend your time more profitably by planning for the success of your business.
We recognise that your business data is often stored within a variety of places such as spreadsheets and in your accounting packages. Rather than spend time re-entering data into your forecast we have integrated Sage WinForecast Professional with Microsoft Excel, Lotus as well as Sage Line 50, Sage Line 100 and Sage Line 200.
All of the tools within Sage WinForecast Professional are designed to make you more effective and to let you plan for success.
Features & Benefits
Many businesses need to produce reliable models of their future profits, cash flow and financial strengths. Sage WinForecast Professional allows you to produce extremely detailed and accurate forecasts quickly and easily. It eliminates the time-consuming task of creating spreadsheets. You can produce integrated Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecasts up to 10 times faster than with a spreadsheet. Links to Sage 50, 100 or 200 so there's no need to re-key in accounting data, creating less opportunity for error. Geared towards the needs of a trained accountant in practice or business or someone with a good working accountancy knowledge, Sage WinForecast Professional leaves you free to focus on the real business issues.
Key Benefits
- Comprehensive and flexible professional forecasting
- Produce integrated error-free forecasts quickly and easily
- Detailed and accurate forecasting, 10 times faster than spreadsheets
- Saves you time so you can focus on the real business issues
- Produce financial models for just about any business
- Improve the flow of high-quality information throughout your company
- Links to Sage Line 50 or Line 100, avoid re-keying of accounting data
- Plan ahead and manage the successful growth of your business
- Import your data from spreadsheets
- Make financial decisions with confidence
Specifications
Error-free forecasting
85% of spreadsheets contain errors. Sage WinForecast Professional uses full double-entry rigour in its calculations to give you complete confidence in the accuracy of your forecasts.
Financial planning
Re-forecasting based on actual results is so quick that budgeting and financial planning becomes a year-round exercise. Opens up new possibilities for financial specialists to advise top management and influence business decisions.
Professional features
Designed with accountants in mind. Includes a wealth of features to help you produce forecasts in the format you need.
Customisable
Print report data for months, quarters, years or a mixture. Add your own formulas such as gross profit, percentage. Rename headings to fit your business. Customise and save your reports.
Hot Links
You can 'hot link' your forecast to an unlimited number of sources, different spreadsheets, database files, Sage Line 50, Line 100 or Line 200 as well as other Sage WinForecast Professional forecasts. Change the data in the link and your forecast is automatically updated.
Multiple currencies
Enter sales and costs in their own currency. Consolidate foreign subsidiaries.
Graphs
Create a wide variety of graphs and pie charts with up to 14 records per graph, in 2-D or 3-D, in full colour or black and white.
Active Drilldown
Just double-click on any figure in any report to analyse it in more detail. Double-click again to update your data on its data entry screen.
Integrated report set
Raw data for each business activity is entered on easy-to-use screens and is used to generate all of the reports.
Formulas
Add simple or complex formulas to any report to highlight key information or financial ratios. Formulas for many common ratios included.
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