Business Process Optimisation Articles

6 Signs That Excel Can No Longer Support Your Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting

6 Signs That Excel Can No Longer Support Your Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting

6 Signs That Excel Can No Longer Support Your Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting


Why would you want budgeting, planning and forecasting to manage your business growth?

Everyday businesses are dealing with financial planning issues and constantly face lack of key information to plan business growth.

The 6 Signs That Excel Can No Longer Support Your Budgeting, Planning, & Forecasting.

  1. Delays
    You have too many spreadsheets to manage your budgeting and forecasting models to get crucial information in time of need.
  2. Inaccurate Data & Compounding Errors
    It takes too long to build a rolling forecast.
  3. Lack of Business Tools
    It’s too hard to do revenue and expense forecast modelling in Excel spreadsheets.
  4. Lack of Critical Metrics
    You have no concept of data cubes and dimensions.
  5. Compliance
    It’s too hard to justify the results.
  6. Reporting
    Board reporting takes too long to prepare.

To solve these issues, we would like to introduce a complete financial management solution – The Adaptive Insights Suite.

A unified Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting Tool that upgrades your spreadsheets into a fully integrated cloud solution that can be used for Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM).

Features & Benefits:

  • Easy to use Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
  • Cuts planning and consolidation by up to 90%
  • Always up-to-date cloud delivery
  • Comprehensive Web and Office reporting designed for the business user
  • Anytime, anywhere access – web and mobile

Revenue Management:

Accurately Predict Revenue with Integrated Financial and Sales Planning

Workforce Management:

Plan and Analyze Your Workforce With Agility and Confidence

Expense Management:

Streamline Expense Management and Access Key Cost Drivers on Demand

Capital Management:

Drive Stronger Capital Management With Powerful Planning and Analysis

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow:

Integrate P&L Statements With Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Projections

Financial Close:

Accelerate Your Financial Close: Consolidate, Validate, Report, and Disclose

Comprehensive budgeting, planning and forecasting – proven to reduce cycle times by up to 90%. With an intuitive “Excel-like” interface, it’s easy to collaboratively plan and forecast revenue, expenses and headcount, create rolling forecasts, and more.
View Datasheet
Visually uncover insights into financial, sales, and operational performance. Intuitive dashboards, interactive scorecards, and even what-if modeling – analyze results and trends.
View Datasheet
Comprehensive financial, management, board and transactional reporting, all available through a drag-and-drop report builder – self-service reporting for everyone.
View Datasheet
With a powerful integration platform that connects on-premise and cloud investments to the suite, Adaptive Integration provides a comprehensive range of connectors to leading ERP, CRM, and proprietary and data warehouse sources. – turn data to insight.
View Datasheet
GS
Gaurav Srivastava
AVT NetSuite Consultant
AVT is Australia's leading Oracle NetSuite Solution Provider & Systems Integrator, specialising in Manufacturing, Wholesale Distribution and eCommerce across AU, NZ and Asia-Pacific since 2006.

Ready to Transform Your Business with NetSuite?

Join 150+ companies across Australia and Asia-Pacific who trust AVT to implement, integrate and support their NetSuite ERP.

Get a Free Consultation Request Pricing