Sage PFW Premier Budgeting
Excellence in financial planning
 

Sage PFW Premier Budgeting is an enterprise application that allows you to easily manage the most important financial planning processes, conduct in-depth analyses, and develop insightful business plans.

Excellence in financial planning is key to your organization’s business success and offers what every executive is looking for - sustainable competitive advantage. To keep up, you need enterprise-wide solutions designed to optimize the analysis and manipulation of all your financial data.

That's where Sage Software's financial analysis solutions can help. With Sage PFW Premier Budgeting, you can:

Sage PFW Premier Budgeting is an enterprise application that allows you to easily manage the most important financial planning processes, conduct in-depth analyses, and develop insightful business plans.

Put an End to Your Budget Nightmares
It's time to stop wasting valuable time reconciling numbers on spreadsheets. Time to eliminate countless hours of number crunching. You need a solution that will allow you to react to last minute changes in assumptions, incorporate the data you need (when you need it!) and make more informed business decisions. You need Sage PFW Premier Budgeting.

Our purpose-built enterprise-wide budgeting and planning software will give you:

* Shorter planning cycles
* Seamless integration with all enterprise data
* Automatic incorporation of key nonfinancial data
* Robust analysis features

Management Features
Sage PFW Premier Budgeting offers robust management features to help make your budgeting and planning process more efficient and effective.
Utilize bottom-up or top-down budgeting processes ... or a combination of both.
Whether you need to allocate a revenue target or cost projection from the top down, or consolidate several different budget plans from the bottom up, Sage PFW Premier Budgeting accommodates your organizational structure and provides a purpose-built solution.

Encourage budget collaboration across the enterprise.
Strong management capabilities allow for seamless integration of budget submissions from multiple departments, using "Plan Sheets" that have a familiar spreadsheet look and feel. Plus, Sage PFW Premier Budgeting's "Web View" provides access to budgeting Plan Sheets at any time and from any location for participants across the enterprise.

Take command of your budget.
The Plan Manager, the command center of Sage PFW Premier Budgeting, coordinates the consolidation and distribution of your Plan Sheets into an efficient, seamless and flexible budgetary system. Within Plan Manager, Plan Sheets are established, reviewed for status and revision, locked for control and managed for consolidation and distribution.

Integrate your budget with enterprise data sources.
Once your system is set up, Sage PFW Premier Budgeting automatically integrates financial information from your general ledger. You can also calculate and deploy values from enterprise data sources including SQL Server, Access, Dbase, Excel, FoxPro and any ODBC or OLE-DB compliant database
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Control access to sensitive data.
Sage PFW Premier Budgeting provides comprehensive security so you can easily limit use of plan sheets to authorized users - as well as define their ability to view, edit or modify information.

Calculation Features
Using a comprehensive calculation engine to retrieve values for budgeting, planning and analysis, Sage PFW Premier Budgeting enables you to link key business drivers to the budget, spread costs or revenue targets over defined periods of time and model seasonal trends.

Create an unlimited number of formulas and formula lines.
Use formulas to annualize sales for the last quarter for a fast growing company, derive account values as a percentage of previous year's sales, compute average daily balance of debt for an interest calculation, or use database queries to retrieve enterprise-wide information.

Flexible spreading techniques.
With Sage PFW Premier Budgeting, you'll be able to apply calculations to a group of columns and spread back to individual periods using factors such as seasonal trends (evenly spread), business drivers (user-defined spread) and prior year balances (historical year averaging spread).

Track up to six period balances.
You'll be able to track fixed or relative period ranges; up to 11 years; actual, budget or statistical balances; beginning, change, ending or average daily balances; computations; any accounts or ranges of accounts; and multi-company.

Define global and local formulas.
Global formulas can be used by anyone in the system, eliminating the need for users to rekey standard formulas. Local formulas can be created for and attached to a specific plan sheet.

Sage PFW Premier Budgeting will transform your budget nightmare into a truly collaborative budgeting and planning process. With shorter planning cycles and time to focus on continuous performance improvement, you'll help your company realize its strategic goals.