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Manage budgets and forecasts

15:55 minutes total learning time
This module shows you how to create, customize, and maintain your organization’s budget and forecast workbooks, so you can keep financial planning clear, accurate, and efficient.

5 videos in this learning module

1

Create a budget workbook

3:09
2

Add detail to your budget

2:38
3

Set up comparison rows

3:14
4

Manage the workflow

4:00
5

Publish a budget

2:54
Create a budget workbook
Add detail to your budget
Set up comparison rows
Manage the workflow
Publish a budget

Create a budget workbook

Learn how to create structured, collaborative budget workbooks in Phocas Budgets & Forecasts, so you can confidently kick off the budgeting process.

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Add detail to your budget

Learn how to expand your budget or forecast workbook by adding new worksheet tabs with additional levels, entities, accounts, and categories. The process is the same for both budgets and forecasts, and requires Budgets & Forecasts and Manage Budgets & Forecasts permissions.

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Set up comparison rows

Learn how to set up comparison rows, such as last year’s actuals or forecasts, to give your team context for smarter, data-driven budget edits with instant variance insights.

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Manage the workflow

Learn how to manage a worksheet’s workflow in Phocas Budgets & Forecasts, whether you’re the budget owner guiding it from start to finish or a budget administrator stepping in when needed.

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Publish a budget

Learn how to publish your completed budget or forecast data to the underlying database, making it available for dashboards, analysis, and reporting, or export it to Excel for use elsewhere.

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