Budget Maestro 5 Features

Budget Management Software Key Features
As you consider your options in the area of budgeting and financial management, functionality is critical. Since 1995 and with over 5,100 installations around the world, we have listened to and learned from our users about the hundreds of capabilities — some dramatic, some subtle — that impact usability, productivity and value. We've continually refined our product to meet the needs of companies of all sizes.

Budget Maestro 5 is a great business budgeting software and forecasting software which includes more functions and features than can possibly be described here. Many are listed below. But the best way to determine how well this solution fits your needs is to download a demonstration. Then you'll see how it combines simplicity and sophistication like no other budget management software package.



Features:

Easy set-up and Implementation Ease of use for financial and non-financial managers Budgeting and Planning Forecasting Personnel and Benefits Management Capital Asset Planning and Management Revenue Management Line of Credit Projection and Management

Cash Management Comprehensive Reporting What-if? Security Consolidation/Roll-up Application/Platform Add-on Options: Manufacturing Edition (Component Costing) Inventory Needs and Management

Easy set-up and Implementation:

-	Out-of-the-box solution ready to set-up and implement
-	Scalable from the single to multi-user environments
-	Wizard driven implementation
-	Import/export utility

Ease of use for financial and non-financial managers:

-	Information driven interface vs. two-dimensional grid for data input
-	No formulas and macros to build
-	Natural interface for non-financial managers; no special training in accounting or finance required
-	Point & click functionality
-	AutoAdjusting Technology® updates calculations (database changes) immediately

Budgeting and Planning:

-	Bottom-up/top down planning (allocation)
-	Fiscal year and calendar year based budgeting
-	Full detail of assumptions
-	High level and detail level budgeting
-	Detail level security based upon reporting hierarchy
-	User definable spreads and schedules including revenue recognition
-	Track and measure actual vs. budgeted and reforecast
-	Integrated revenue, operational expenses, payroll, assets, liabilities and cash management
-	Supports unlimited notes/messages per line item

Forecasting:

-	Global or detail level
-	Forecasting on a monthly/quarterly basis; multi-year
-	Forecast up to 15 years* (monthly)
-	Multi-scenario support
-	Rolling forecast using multiple scenarios
-	"What-if" analysis/financial modeling
-	Seasonal and user-defined spreads

Personnel and Benefits Management:

-	Hourly & salary support
-	Global & group salary-related expenses
-	Overtime & shift differential
-	Multiple increases & decreases (per employee/group)
-	Supports fiscal and calendar projections
-	Headcount report
-	Top down allocation
-	Line item details, with text comments

Capital Asset Planning and Management:

-	Full asset management with standard depreciation schedules and user-definable depreciation tables including MACRS, sum of years, double declining balance

Revenue Management:

-	Revenue by multiple dimensions, i.e. product, market, customer,
-	Forecast in cash or units within any period, with audit trail
-	Supports multiple increases & decreases in sales, costs & price
-	User definable revenue recognition schedules
-	Extensive drill down capability

Line of Credit Projection and Management:

-	User definable interest rate schedules
-	Multiple loan calculation methods
-	Balloon payment ready
-	Line of Credit with user definable activity and cash management

Cash Management:

-	Integrated balance sheet and cash flow analysis
-	True trial balance type of accounting
-	Both sides of the journal entry/transaction captured (logged)
-	Accurate reporting of financial statements
-	User definable payment methods, i.e. accrual, prepaid, A/P and cash basis
-	Automatically assign payment method to the assumptions that require it

Comprehensive Reporting:

-	Dynamically build balance sheet, income statement and cash flow
-	Multi-dimensional financial and management reports; (management lists)
-	Drill-down to transaction level
-	Real-time reporting capabilities
-	Large assortment of pre-defined reports
-	Point & click to generate reports
-	Build ad-hoc reports
-	Generates graphics
-	Built-in ratio analysis

What-if?:

-	Increase and decrease any combination of assumptions
-	User definable selections of specific criteria
-	Unlimited scenarios

Security:

-	User-level, Role-based
-	Assumption-level security protection
-	Permit multi-tiered review points and scenario management

Consolidation/Roll-up:

-	Point & click to automate consolidation on any number or combination of budgets
-	unified report with supporting balance sheet, income and cash flow statements

Application/Platform:

-	Windows 98, NT4, 2000, XP
-	Accessible via web browser (additional software required)
-	Enterprise Edition requires MS-SQL Server

Add-on Options:

Manufacturing Edition (Component Costing):

-	Breakdown of revenue costs down to component level
-	Project finished goods cost based on multiple components

Inventory Needs and Management:

-	Inventory turnover (days inventory)
-	Minimum/maximum replenishment
-	Auto replenishment feature allows you to project inventory needs by period based on multiple criteria

*	Add on module.