Planning Maestro FORECASTING

What is Planning Maestro FORECASTING ?

With Planning Maestro, predict the impact of multiple scenarios. Quickly identify where, when, and why actual values differ from plan, so you can take appropriate action.

Data-driven decision-making

Smart planning allows you to make smart contributions to your business – extracting useful insights from financial data and guiding the leadership team to better decisions.

• Generate an accurate, integrated, synchronized cash flow and balance sheet demonstration, P&L demonstration, and other management reports without duplicating work or calculations.
• Facilitate collaboration between all plan and budget owners to enable quick responses to real results while maintaining a centralized view of the overall plan.
• Drill down from the summary level to the level of detail to understand risks, variations, and opportunities, and initiate faster changes in response to actual and predicted results.

Cash flow, balance sheet and P&L forecast

An intelligent planning solution operates as an extension of your GL and automatically generates forward-looking cash flow balances and statements that are synchronized with actual results and the underlying budget.

• See the effect of cash flow from any area of your operation - from sales to workforce, loans and capital goods plans.
• Make a change to an income statement or balance sheet assumption and automatically see the impact on all your finances, including the statement of cash flows.
• Compare multiple predictions based on real.

Continuous forecasts

Predicting unforeseen trends and opportunities 12 or 18 months in advance is difficult in the best cases and almost impossible when the market or its sector is experiencing uncertainty or volatility. An intelligent platform optimizes continuous forecasting, allowing you to:

• Get a long-term view, with the ability to create continuous forecasts beyond 12 periods.
• See changes in assumptions based on key business drivers or market conditions instantly, across the model.
• Generate budget variation reports, real numbers, and re-projected reports.

Scenario planning

All plans, to some extent, are based on assumptions. You gather information from each department head, set goals, set steps to achieve those goals, and estimate expenses. Scenario planning allows you to test various assumptions and predict their impact on financial statements.

• Integrated compliance and automated workflows ensure that all inputs are processed according to the company's unique business structure to provide a vision of the future of your GL.
• Test how sensitive my plan is to a specific variable, such as under-expected sales or whether insurance rates go up, as well as the impact on your financial statements.
• Accurately predict the impact of multiple variables and scenarios to make solid recommendations to the executive team.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768

Supported operating systems

Mac OS X 10.5 x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Hardware requirements

Memory - 1 GB of RAM and more

Free disk space - 50 MB

System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OS