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Revise EPM - a comprehensive budgeting tool for your business needs


Budgeting is an important part of setting business goals and creating a business plan. The budget provides numerical guidelines for the company's operations for at least the next 12 months, so it is worth planning carefully and in such a way that the budgeting supports the company's decision-making. 

The company's budget consists of the main budget and separately compiled sub-budgets, which contain more detailed information on budgeting, and thus specify the company's main budget. Good budgeting is based on the company's previous budget out-turn, and it takes into account the business objectives.

Profit budget indicates the profitability of the budget

The profit budget is a part of the company's main budget and its data is compiled from sub-budgets. The profit budget shows the difference between company's revenues and costs, which equals the revenue, and this way indicates whether the budgeting model is profitable for the business. The profit must meet the company's goals: the goal may be the company's desire to operate independently or, for example, to meet a set of growth targets. If the result is not sufficient, the sub-budgets must be reviewed and the necessary changes made to achieve the desired result.

Financial budget shows the development of cash flows

The financial budget forms a part of the company's main budget and can also be called the cash flow budget or liquidity budget. The financial budget describes the adequacy of cash and is prepared based on the profit budget. The financial budget is necessary, as the profit budget alone does not indicate the company's liquidity and cash flow development. The development of cash resources guarantees the company's growth, so if the cash flows decline, the company's growth will also cease. 

Sales budget and other sub-budgets

The sales budget sets monthly targets, and the sales target for the entire period is formed by adding together the monthly targets. There are several ways to create the sales budget, from which the most suitable for the company should be chose. The traditional way is to set product prices and multiple the product's monthly sales volume by its selling price. Other methods to form sales budget include budgeting the company's monthly quantity of customers and the price of the customer's average purchase and multiplying them together.

Other sub-budgets include variable and fixed cost budgets and the marketing budget. Budgeting should be designed so that the sub-budgets complement each other in the bid picture.

Monitor the development of the budget as it is compiled

With the Revise EPM -budgeting tool the budgeting can be split and fill sales, turnover, salaries, variable costs, fixed costs and investments separately. Each part of the budget can be designed to be filled by its responsible person and this way the separate parts of the budget can be filled by different persons. The company's administrator can monitor the development of the budgeting in real time. The previous budget can be selected as the budget base, using e.g. the previous year's budget out-turn, and the new budget can be created based on the previous out-turn.

During the entry, the review level can be flexibly varied at the annual or monthly level, at the account or account group level, and different percentage changes can be given at the same level.

Multiple budget versions

The tool allows you to create and save different budget versions, so during the budgeting process you can compare the impact of different budgeting methods on the final budget. Different budget and forecast versions as well as out-turn data can be used as the basis for forecasts made during the financial year. Correspondingly, the forecasts can be used as the basis for creating a new version of the budget.

Rolling budgeting

Nowadays the business changes are rapid, so they must be responded to in the shortest possible time. Creating one budget version once a year is no longer enough. Instead, a successful budgeting process requires constant monitoring and rolling budget.

In the rolling budget, the budgeting period of the previous 12 months is always extended by one month. This way the company always has a budget, i.e. the financial goal, available for the next 12 months. The out-turn of the previous budget month is a good basis for the additional month's budget and it simplifies the maintenance of the budget for the next 12 months. The company's management greatly benefits from the rolling budget when planning policies and making decisions.

Implementing the rolling budgeting with Revise EPM is simple, as you can directly use the previous month's out-turn data as the basis for creating the additional month's budget.

 

See also other Revise EPM -tool features

Reporting

The tool allows you to create all the reports you need. Reports for budgets, forecasts and different kind of comparisons can be done quickly. 

Revise EPM includes standard reporting packages, which can be easily finalized with your own reports and graphs. 

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Forecasts

With Revise EPM you can easily implement various forecasts; profit forecast, sales forecast and balance sheet forecast. The tool includes a 12-week rolling cash flow forecast.

You will have a better understanding of future business possibilities when you have accurate data available.

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