Function: Financial planning and budgeting

In this function, you can maintain all activities to create and maintain a company's long-term financial planning, including simulations of various scenarios. This long-term financial plan is transformed into a company budget for the coming year. You can periodically maintain this company budget. Based on this company budget, a sales budget and a purchase budget are created.

Process: Financial planning and budgeting (code: MPB01a)

The objective of this process is to maintain the long-term financial planning of your company. In this process, you can, for example, simulate various scenarios.

Operations included in this variant are:

  • Financial planning
  • Create company budgets: copy budget, budget amount and quantities, and compare budgets.
  • Maintain company budget: copy budget, recalculate budget data based on actual data, budget amounts and quantities, and compare budgets.
  • Maintain sales budget
  • Maintain purchase budget

Assumptions:

  • Because the company budget is a budget in which you want several dimensions and not a performance-based budget, you use the multi-dimensions budget functionality.

IT support:

  • LN Financials, Controlling