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Financial planning

Budgeting, forecasting and cash flow planning

The current economic climate forces organisations to have a dynamic planning process and cash flow planning next to a financially oriented budget. On a regular basis strategic targets and operational activities needs alignment. Using well defined business drivers, organizations integrate financial- and operational perspectives and deliver new plans on demand. Process owners submit their estimates that, in accordance with estimates of other business processes, result in a plan that is aligned and reliable. These plans enable organizations to be forward looking and learn from the past.

Key benefits are:

• translate strategic targets to tactical and operational levels to drive the organization
• monitor impact on working capital and cash flow
• quickly adapt to changes to remain competitive
• align business processes to improve efficiency
• increased quality of plans by integrating financial- and operational perspectives
• integrate business partners in planning process to optimize service level
• exploration of new business opportunities to secure long term value creation

Supported technologies:
Cubus ABC, Oracle EPM Hyperion Planning, SAP BPC OutlookSoft, Tagetik CPM