Sage 50 Forecasting

Regular forecasting is essential for profitability and solvency in any business. Sage 50 Forecasting makes your forecasting process simple, and allowing you to predict the impact of critical business decisions and make them complete in confidence. Sage 50 Forecasting can be integrated with the Sage 50 Accounts, double-entry data system and the pre-installed formulae giving you combined figures you can trust. It lets you:

Create accurate reports with figures you can trust

No more will you need to set up your own spreadsheets, simply use the pre-installed formulae provided. You can also re-forecast based on actual results while still leaving your original budgets or base data intact, allowing you to track progress and identify opportunities for the growth of your business.

Predict and monitor your cash flow

Forecasting your cash flow, enables you to quickly and easily predict your future financial status. This then allows you to capitalise on the upcoming situation or take preventative action well in advance.

See the impact of potential business decisions

You can experiment with different ‘What if?’ scenarios, without affecting your base data. So you can see how various decisions like price rises, new ventures and expansion will impact on your business.

Save hours creating professional reports

Because data can be taken directly from your Sage 50 Accounts or Microsoft® Excel, you’ll save yourself hours of data re-entry. You’ll also enjoy the flexibility of entering your own data if you choose.

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Create forecasts direct from data held in your Sage software

You can link to data within Sage 50 Accounts, Sage Instant Accounts, Sage MMS, Sage Line 100, Sage Payroll or any Microsoft® Excel spread sheet

Track progress and identify opportunities

Easily update your forecasts with current data direct from your Sage 50 Accounts. This means you can re-forecast based on actual results while still leaving your original budgets intact.

Explore 'What If?' scenarios

Review the impact of potential business decisions by changing your base data.

Create comprehensive and accurate forecasts

Extremely flexible forecasts allow you to create and report on unlimited cost and sales sections.

Fit your forecasts to your business

You can tailor your forecasts around as many departments and sub-departments as is required.

Persuade managers and investors of your future potential

The software enables you to make confident business decisions and provides you with professionally presented reports and graphs to help convince bank managers and investors that yours is a business they can have confidence in.

Choice of reports and graphs

You can access everything from Cash Flow, Funds Flow, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reports and graphs.

Monitor your cash flow

You’ll be able to spot potential dips in cash flow before they happen and avoid unpleasant surprises.

Forecasting software that’s easy to learn

The structure for the forecast software is similar to your accounts P&L and Balance Sheet, so navigation is easy.

Make automatic calculations

Thanks to the built-in formulae for VAT, PAYE, NI, Corporation Tax and bank interest, you can save a lot of time and hassle when it comes to making calculations.

Enjoy flexible accounting periods

Create forecasts to suit your business' accounting periods, and forecast for up to 50 years.

Recommended hardware

    * An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor
    * At least 1GB RAM
    * At least 600MB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
    * Network users only: 1Gbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Minimum hardware

    * An IBM-compatible computer with a 1GHz (or equivalent) processor
    * 512MB RAM
    * 400MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
    * Network users only: 100Mbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks.

Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions.

This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT4 operating systems.

One of the following operating systems:

    * Microsoft Windows 2000
    * Windows Server 2003
    * Windows XP (Recommended)
    * Windows Vista

Please make sure that you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.

Please note: It is not possible to install multiple copies of this product on a single computer.