Its a fact that many smaller businesses fail due to poor financial forecasting and lack of cash rather than poor sales, so a well structured and thought out forecast is vital to the continuing success of a company, helping to prepare for the inevitable cashflow peaks and troughs.

Sage Instant Forecasting is an easy-to-use forecasting solution to help you gain greater control over your cashflow and business. It has been designed specifically to help small businesses to plan more efficiently for the future and can be used stand-alone or when linked with Sage Instant Accounts.

Regular forecasting enables you to:

Manage your business’s cash flow
Identify trends and potential bottlenecks
Improve business budgeting accuracy
Locate opportunities to increase profit
Highlight potential barriers to growth and profitability

Sage Instant Forecasting will save you valuable time in preparing professional financial reports such as Cash Flow, Profit & Loss, and Balance Sheet. Reports are then automatically updated when information is changed within the forecast.

Improve forecasting detail and accuracy in areas such as sales, costs, overheads, wages, fixed assets and more – a simple and effective alternative to complex spreadsheet forecasting.

Explore growth opportunities and potential risks with ‘What if?’ scenarios, giving you the confidence to make important business decisions.

With Instant Forecasting you can effectively budget, understand your business, identify unnecessary costs and predict possible shortfalls in your cash flow with ease.

Create Forecasts Quickly	The intuitive user interface makes creating and maintaining forecasts quick and easy
Multi-Year Forecasts	Forecast your business projections for up to 5 years
Simple and Flexible Data Entry	Quick and easy data entry eliminates the complications and errors often associated with spreadsheet forecasting. For ease of use, enter data on a monthly or annual basis
Pre-formatted Financial Reports	Complete a set of financial reports at a click of a button, including Cash Flow, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet
Drill Down	Double click to analyse and edit forecast values in more detail
Real Time Financial Forecasting	See the impact of your entries on such things as net profit and your bank balance immediately. No need to run reports to see the numbers that you're most interested in
Automatic VAT and Loan Calculations	See the effect of VAT, loans and HP agreements on your business cash flow
What if? Scenarios	Explore growth opportunities and potential risks with ‘What if?’ scenarios. For example, what would be the impact on your business if your sales were to increase by 10% or you needed to employ another member of staff?
Forecasts Wage Costs	Wage costs are a major business expense. Accurately forecast wage costs at a summary level
Integrates with Instant Accounts	Sage Instant Forecasting can link directly to Sage Instant Accounts. As the data in Instant Accounts changes your forecast is automatically updated

Why not just use Excel to Forecast?

Instant Forecasting is an easy to use and effective alternative to complex spreadsheet forecasting

Sage Instant Forecasting has been designed to eliminate the time-consuming and uncertain task of producing spreadsheets to create financial models and reports. Its ease of use, pre-installed formulae, and integration with Instant Accounts combine to produce figures that you can trust. Then, when business assumptions change, new products launch, or start dates change, all you do is enter the data and Sage Instant Forecasting adjusts forecasts accordingly, recalculating all your reports instantly.

Sage Financial Forecasting

Accurate business forecasting and budgeting is the key to business growth and success in today's complex business environment. It not only helps you and your business plan effectively for the future, but it gives you a powerful tool for managing the present with confidence. Forecasts allow businesses to identify any potential problems and take action to avert them, or to identify opportunities that can be exploited with a bit of astute planning. With Sage Financial Forecasting (SFF) you'll find it easier and quicker than ever to:

Plan effectively and gain a wider view of your business
Monitor your company's financial health on a weekly, monthly or annual basis - whichever suits you best
Demonstrate total professionalism in the information you provide to your business partners, clients and bank
Explore future growth opportunities and potential risks with advanced 'What if?' scenarios

Many companies simply don't do any forecasting at all, often because they feel that they don't have the time, the expertise or the right software for the job. Alternatively many businesses use spreadsheets to create their forecasts, but these are error prone - with up to 85% containing errors.

Sage Financial Forecasting enables you to create accurate financial forecasts for your business that can be as detailed as you need. Sage Financial Forecasting also handles all double entry and performs all complicated calculations such as those involved in factoring and provisions. Reports such as Profit and Loss, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet and Funds Flow are supplied as standard, and can be viewed at any time. It also enables you to investigate any number of "What if?" scenarios to better plan for the future.

We recognise that your business data is often stored within a variety of locations so Sage Financial Forecasting will work equally well on its own or when it is linked direct to Sage accounting software (Line 50, Line 100 and MMS), Sage Payroll or Excel spreadsheets. This integration functionality can help automate much of the initial data entry tasks and the updating of forecasts with actual data as the year progresses.

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