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Flexible & agile financial forecasting made simple

Centage’s FP&A software unites your team to regularly forecast and evaluate actuals, giving you deep insights into your financial plan. Together, you’ll improve budgeting accuracy, set realistic goals, detect and correct issues early, and future-proof your business with flexible forecasting that keeps everyone aligned and prepared for the future.

Leave Excel Behind: Unlock Collaborative Forecasting with Centage

Unlike Excel’s isolated, error-prone spreadsheets, Centage brings your teams together for a seamless budgeting and planning experience. Centralized data and intuitive tools let your team collaborate efficiently, creating accurate budgets and forecasts that drive your business forward.

Sharpen your forecasting vision together

Collaboratively forecast the impact of multiple scenarios, leveraging input from key stakeholders across departments. Centage’s built-in financial logic allows your team to test various assumptions and see how they will impact your financial statements. Work together to discover when, where, and why actuals differ from the plan, so you can take immediate, collective action to improve financial outcomes.

Make data-driven decisions as a team

With Centage, your team can make more informed, data-driven decisions by collaborating on actionable insights from financial data. Generate precise, integrated cash flow, balance sheet, and P&L statements, enabling every stakeholder to contribute to the analysis without duplicating work. Drill down from summary to detailed data across departments to fully understand risks, opportunities, and variances from different perspectives.

Collaborative cash flow, balance sheet, and P&L Forecasting

Centage acts as an extension of your general ledger, automatically generating accurate balance sheet and cash flow information. These forecasts are synchronized with actual results and your budget, allowing input from teams across your organization. Each department can contribute insights on how their operations affect cash flow, enabling a fully collaborative and dynamic forecasting process. Make adjustments and see the collective impact on your financials in real time.

Generate accurate, agile rolling forecasts with stakeholders

Run rolling forecasts throughout the year with input from key stakeholders. Centage’s built-in capability and connected financial statements streamline the process, allowing your team to create 12- or 18-month rolling forecasts together. With up-to-date insights and variance reports, your team can course correct collaboratively, responding to changing business conditions quickly and efficiently.

"With Centage we’ve moved away from doing yearly budgets, and work off the quarterly reforecasts. We are able to spend less time talking about the numbers in the budget and spend more time on how we’re going to get there."

Scott Coleson

Controller, Four Star Freightliner

This retail and trucking business with seven locations in multiple states has relied on Centage to enhance their business planning during a phase of rapid expansion. After transitioning from annual budgets to quarterly reforecasts, they're able to spend more time on strategic planning and less on manual reporting. Centage’s flexible forecasting allows Four Star Freightliner to nimbly adjust their business plan, make informed decisions, and sharpen forward vision.

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“I can update our cash flow, income statement, and forecast out five years really easily. I can do a five-year model and see how much cash we’ll have, which is pretty critical to our existence. And because of the flexibility of Centage, I can change forecasts and get new information faster and without extra headaches.”

Joan Edelman

CFO, Wakeland Housing and Development

After transitioning from Excel-based forecasts to Centage, this housing nonprofit is now able to generate complex forecasts with just a few clicks. Centage’s flexibility and integration with Dynamics GP enables monthly reforecasts that were previously impossible. Centage enables detailed insights into cash flow, income statements, and balance sheets up to five years ahead: “Centage lets us be smart about what we will do in the future.”

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“For each of six operating companies on separate SAGE general ledgers, we need to provide an annual budget and series of quarterly forecast revisions including projecting cash flow requirements over the course of the year. We were spending far too much time chasing down broken links and double-checking formulas for errors.”

Gina Cole

Controller, M3 Midstream Momentum

With a growth-oriented strategy dependent on agile cash flow forecasting, this midstream energy company ran into a wall with their previous spreadsheet-based FP&A system. Centage provides detailed cash forecasting and user-defined drivers for on-the-fly adjustments during virtual forecast planning sessions. Now they can model major changes in hours, and minor changes are done with management in real time.

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“With Centage we’ve moved away from doing yearly budgets, and work off the quarterly reforecasts. We are able to spend less time talking about the numbers in the budget and spend more time on how we’re going to get there.”

Scott Coleson

Controller, Four Star Freightliner

This retail and trucking business with seven locations in multiple states has relied on Centage to enhance their business planning during a phase of rapid expansion. By transitioning from annual budgets to quarterly reforecasts, they spend more time on strategic planning and less on manual reporting. Centage’s flexible forecasting allows Four Star Freightliner to nimbly adjust their business plan, make informed decisions, and sharpen forward vision.

Read more in the case study