Excel Budgeting Pains Can Be Taken Away

Do you dread because your annual budgeting exercise is starting again soon?

Does it always seem like gearing up for a battle whenever you are brace yourself up to do the following tedious tasks:

• Protect the template to minimise the disruption to your consolidation effort.
• Check the templates filled up by the business heads in detail, making sure that the template layout is not changed in any way.
• Put the budget number in one single workbook so that you could consolidate the numbers by summing across the worksheets.
• Set up links to analyse the key expenses by departments, country, by month.
• Create links to another workbook for the executive summary and charts for your reporting.
• Create multiple sets of report for different managers, e.g product manager, channel manager, etc.
• Work overtime and during the weekends to get the budget out before the deadline.
• Run a few revisions of the budget and repeat the process for each revision.

If you are, I have GREAT NEWS for you!

I was like you, working late into the night and burning my weekends with my three team mates during the one month of budgeting, no time for my family and friends at all! I insisted on believing that should not be the way we manage budgeting process and decided to reinvent the approach to budgeting. Alas! I found a way to significantly shorten the process. With the new solution (still using Excel), there is :

• No need to check the template with such greater details.
• No need to link the cells to another worksheet for analysis and yet I can get all the details I want within seconds.
• No need to create links to another workbook for the executive summary and charts.
• No need to create links to another workbook for the executive summary and charts.
• And finally, no need to stay back late into the wee hours of the night to work on the budget, no need to work on weekends any more!

All these sound just good to be true?

Watch this 8 minutes video and see a live demo on our Corporate Budgeting Solution! I guarantee your time will be well spent.