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CorVu Budgeting & Planning

"People working on a budgeting process that is clearly guided and focused by strategic initiatives spend less time arguing about irrelevant details and more time focusing on stuff that matters."

Benchmarking firm APQC

CorPlanning enables forward-thinking organisations to manage their budgeting, forecasting and planning processes in an efficient, holistic and focused manner.

Resource management is a critical process to ensuring that your organisation has enough reserve at its disposal to successfully executive strategies. And, while all companies have some sort of budgeting and forecasting, they are all not typically tied into the strategic planning process.

CorPlanning eliminates these issues by enabling organisations to link budgeting, planning and forecasting with the management of strategic objectives and initiatives.

CorPlanning can be quickly deployed and easily configured to an organisation’s specific needs, and enables you to discuss resource plans, readily create standard financial reports, and make decisions within a strategic context.

Key benefits

Link planning to strategy

Translate strategy into operational targets and initiatives

Improve your ability to act and react

Quickly react to market, competitive, and organisational changes

Accelerate your budgeting and planning cycle

Maximise participation, collaboration, and ownership in a centralised process.

Reduce your operational costs

Pare down all costs associated with managing the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes

Improve your operational efficiency

Reverse the typical 80/20 input/analysis ratio for the budgeting and planning process

Drive profitable growth through 'What-if' Analysis capabilities

Analyse the business impact of hypothetical scenarios in real time

Key Features

Strategic resource planning

	Centralised management of the financial planning cycle
	Secure budgeting and planning in a fully audited environment
	Capture knowledge for developing resource plans and making informed decisions
	Every object is owned / maintained by a specific individual

Simplified data entry

	Distributed data entry over the web
	Customisable explanations and helps for users
	Actual values from previous years available for comparison
	Exchange data using spreadsheets
	Link to supply documents, hyperlinks and personal notes

Multiple Budgeting methods

CorPlanning supports all commonly used planning methods, including:

	Rolling forecasts
	Zero-base budgeting
	Outcome budgeting
	Activity based management
	Beyond budgeting
	Top-down and bottom-up
	“What if” scenario modelling
	Multi-currency consolidation
	Financial and non-financial resources
	Approvals and reviews are customised to an organisation’s own workflows

Wide Ranging Financial reporting

	Consolidated financial reports
	Statutory reports
	Management reports
	Variance reports and exception analysis
	Reporting of key financial ratios
	Interactive financial reports; where financial outcomes can be linked to non-financial performance information

Integration with operational systems

Automated Data Xchange (ADX) technology linked to CorPlanning provides rapid access to data from any source, including ERP systems, databases, and flat files.

	Dynamic update of organisation and account structures
	Automatic synchronisation of planning data with other information systems
	Linkage to Infor FMS SunSystems and SAP Business One as standard.

Extensive Library of Planning templates

	Sales
	Cost of Goods Sold
	Eliminations
	EVMS (ANSI-748)
	R&D
	Capital Planning
	Payroll
	Budget

What sets CorPlanning 5 apart?

Comprehensive capabilities

	Real-time planning allows changes to drive instantaneous recalculation, re-forecasting and scorecard updates
	“Driver-driven forecasting” enables business drivers to improve forecast time lines, accuracy and flexibility
	Powerful planning functions, including breakback, consolidation, inter-company eliminations and multi-currency
	Mature, granular security system supports LDAP
	Powerful Automated Data Xchange (ADX) technology to populate worksheets from corporate information systems

Flexibility

	Easy to change/add dimensions, models and organisation structures
	Versioning provides capability to create multiple versions for all budget years

Low total cost of ownership

	Purpose-built application to minimise implementation, training, modification and maintenance costs
	Out-of-the-box reports and templates

Scalability

	Single, open database repository
	J2EE web architecture allows large-scale implementation with hundreds of data sources, thousands of accounts and tens of thousands of users

Easy to use

	User friendly interface
	Automated calculations
	Initiative data entry

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