Learn how plans, drivers, assumptions and system accounts form the foundation in forecasting operational expenses.
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Goals of Webinar
- Forecasting Overview
- Tying out the forecasted three way financial statements
- Understanding the impact of the four system accounts
- Manage Plans with the Actuals and Forecast Period Windows
- Onboarding Tasks
- Staffing: Import this actual descriptive analytic
- Departments: Mapping the staffing departments and the accounting departments for reporting purposes
- Company Settings: Assign the cash and salary expense system accounts
- AR and AP: Assign the AR and AP system accounts
- Auto Forecast
- Auto Rollforward
- Driver Based Modeling
- Impacting a forecast with manual increases and decreases
- Impacting a forecast with the six planned standard drivers
Go to Advanced Forecasting