Analyst Budgeting

Distributed, automated, Excel-based budgeting and forecasting

Analyst Budgeting manages the budgeting process - build, initiate, distribute, collect, report, iterate, accept - to help finance departments produce a practical and operational budget quickly and cost effectively.

Analyst Budgeting enables you to customise your budgeting system to meet the exact needs of your business - using Excel. You can continue to run your budgeting process the way you choose - not according to pre-defined budgeting rules. Analyst Budgeting co-ordinates the flow of data in your budget cycle, from collection and redistribution of values throughout the iterative budget processes to the option of posting the accepted budget back to the ledger.

What makes Analyst Budgeting different?

Meets the exact needs of your business year in and year out

Analyst Budgeting uses a Microsoft database to hold the budget structures and data and allows you to harness the power of the spreadsheet. Analyst Budgeting also adds budget specific functionality to deliver an efficiently controlled method of data extraction, collection and dissemination to deliver an application that processes every aspect of the budget cycle.

Automatic generation of a spreadsheet data entry pack

Analyst Budgeting provides a powerful wizard driven report authoring tool to defines a template for data capture with embedded data and formulae, spreading and phasing methods, and automated cell protection. Analyst Budgeting automatically generates and distributes an individual Excel workbook for every budget holder. If you need to update your budget pack to add a new account code, Analyst Budgeting will automatically recreate and distribute a new spreadsheet for data entry.

Integrated budget vs. actual reporting

Analyst Budgeting can be used in conjunction with Analyst Reporting to provide a customised and fully integrated budget vs. actual reporting system. Both software applications work off the same Microsoft database. AND, for less sophisticated requirements, the Budget Express capability within Analyst Reporting enables a quick budget - complete with protection, spread methods and iterations, to be built straight from an Analyst Reporting report template to provide a quick integrated budget vs. actual reporting system.