
In the competitive business environment,
organisations of all sizes need to become more
agile and flexible. By improving operational and financial planning,
they can achieve the agility and flexibility needed
to succeed against the competition. Disconnected and manually intensive planning and forecasting once or twice a year is no longer sufficient. Budget ownership by management
and finance alone fails to incorporate operational
assumptions from managers who understand the details.
Conducter's powerful financial consolidation capabilities
enable multiple decision makers to participate in
the planning process simultaneously, with all changes
updated real time.
Features
- Top down planning with bottom up budgeting and forecasting
- Multidimensional budget consolidation
- Rolling forecasts
- All actual and financial data is directly available for reconciliation and comparative analysis
- Monitor progress and provide early warning of failing performance with real-time variance analysis
- No longer waste time consolidating and interrogating spreadsheets
- Security and privilege permissioning (e.g. read only, read-write, no access) ensures appropriateness of data visibility and preservation of data integrity
- Comprehensive audit trail held
Strategic planning and forecasting should be an enterprise wide process that integrates strategic areas with the operational areas. |