A Simple Solution for Better Budgeting
Financial Planner is offered as an add-on module of Viewpoint Construction Software’s financial planning tool– Financial Manager. Fully integrated with Viewpoint V6 General Ledger for simplicity and efficiency, Financial Planner provides easy-to-use tools for detailed budgeting, planning and forecasting in key areas such as Operations, Salary and Capital projects. Enable unlimited collaboration without sacrificing control thanks to utilisation of Web technology, a secure centralised database, dynamic data entry views/templates and a multi-level workflow system.
With Financial Planner you’ll have the tools necessary for exceptional financial management that meet the needs of every area in your business.
BENEFITS:
- Reduce budgeting cycle time and eliminate spreadsheets.
- Easily manage the budget approval process with multi-level workflow routings.
- View immediate impact of a budget change on a specific account, department, division or entire organisation.
- Assign flexible security roles in combination to specific users to achieve desired access while minimising maintenance effort.
- Easily plan and forecast staffing requirements and expenditures.
Following are the features of Financial Planner that help decision makers keep their businesses optimised:
Budgeting & Planning
- Support multiple planning scenarios throughout the budget process - the number of versions is unlimited.
- Precisely control budget data for editing and analysis through the use of highly flexible views and templates.
- Ability to define selection criteria, subtotaling, filtering, ordering and the inclusion of comparative and calculated data provides users with a highly productive interface.
- Manage the budget approval process through multi-level, role-based workflow routings.
- Ability to plan and forecast for multiple future years.
- Track every change made to the budget including who made the change and when and why it was made.
- Create journal entries or balanced budget transfers, copy existing journals and reverse.
- Provide a variety of modeling tools to end-users and budget coordinators.
- Increase or decrease selected data by specified percentages or amounts.
Operations Budgeting
- Data can be allocated based on percentages or other specified drivers.
- Ability to combine or change sets of data based on defined formulas.
- Generate forecasts by combining budgets and YTD actuals.
Salary Planning
- Utilise a single data model to allow easy definition of elements such as pay cycles, union groups, benefits parameters, positions and steps/grades.
- Split individual compensation and benefit amounts among multiple departments, projects or cost centers based on a percentage, FTE or fixed dollar amount.
- Access data with the Reporting tool for the production of user-defined reports.
- The security system ensures that each user can view and/or change only authorized information.
Capital Projects Planning
- Manage funding sources with opening balances, current year commitments, future year commitments and interest calculations where applicable.
- Ability to forecast the projected closing balance for each fund.
- Shift forward tool provides capability to move projects forward by any number of years.
- Historical data for budget and actuals can be presented to the user to assist with change management.
Plan Requests
- Requests can be ranked at a departmental or corporate level.
- Requests can also be viewed in terms of how well each aligns with corporate priorities, which includes a user defined weighting scheme.
- A full rollover feature is available to roll requests forward to the New Year. Requests can also be archived for future use.