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Budgets & Forecasts

6 sessions in this series
Join us for the re-run of our 6-part PUG training series, giving you another chance to get the most out of your Budgets & Forecasts solution. Whether you're a first-timer, need a quick refresher, or want to sharpen your skills, this series has something for everyone—even if you're not currently using Budgets & Forecasts.
Budgets \x26amp; Forecasts

Budgets & Forecasts 101 – revenue

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Speed up the preparation and sign-off of your revenue budget process.
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Jonathan Notman
Jonathan Notman
Technical Pre-sales Consultant
Rebecca Ambrose
Rebecca Ambrose
Head of Customer Marketing

In this session, learn how to:

  • Set up a new profit & loss (P&L) budget
  • Easily collaborate with team members using budget workflows and get stakeholder buy-in letting them refine numbers
  • Utilize spread, comparison + seasonality functionality to speed-up your budgeting process
  • Leverage your Phocas Analytics data using quantity and cost to drive the sales and profit in your financial budget
Budgets \x26amp; Forecasts 101 – revenue

Budgets & Forecasts 101 – expenses

Now on-demand
Building on revenue budgeting, it’s time to accurately plan future expenses across the business.
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Jonathan Notman
Jonathan Notman
Technical Pre-sales Consultant
Rebecca Ambrose
Rebecca Ambrose
Head of Customer Marketing

In this session, we’ll cover how to:

  • Plan all staff related costs securely - ensuring the right people have access to relevant information
  • Easily add additional working and sum lines
  • Create assumptions tabs to help with scenario planning
  • Finalise and publish your budgets
Budgets \x26amp; Forecasts 101 – expenses

3-statement budgeting

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Achieve cashflow budgets and forecasts by introducing your balance sheet.
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Craig Medlyn
Craig Medlyn
Technical Sales Manager
Rebecca Ambrose
Rebecca Ambrose
Head of Customer Marketing

In this session, learn how to:

  • Introduce your balance sheet to your profit & loss (P&L) budget and forecasts
  • Use mini drivers (e.g. debtor days, credit days, or stock) to easily connect your P&L to your balance sheet
  • Get a handle on your cash by identifying how movements impact your budgets and forecasts
  • Scenario plan debtor days to see the effects on your 3-way budgets
3\-statement budgeting

Sales budgeting

Friday 17 October, 2025
2:00 PM AEDT

Create your sales budget for the next 12-months using prior year actuals as a foundation to forecast future performance.

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David Chambers
David Chambers
Senior Solutions Consultant
Rebecca Ambrose
Rebecca Ambrose
Head of Customer Marketing

In this session, learn how to:

  • Create your sales budget by rep, product and customer
  • Enable your sales team to take charge of their budget, empowering them to drive results
  • Model different scenarios to help with future planning (i.e. changing market conditions like inflation and price increases)
Sales budgeting

Tracking performance + re-forecasting

Friday 31 October, 2025
2:00 PM AEDT
Building on sales budgeting, it’s time to reforecast your 3-statement budget.
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David Chambers
David Chambers
Senior Solutions Consultant
Rebecca Ambrose
Rebecca Ambrose
Head of Customer Marketing

In this session, learn how to:

  • Create any combination of actuals + forecasts (e.g. 8+4)
  • Implement rolling forecasts to keep your budget up to date
  • Use live actuals to guide more accurate reforecasts or align the forecast to budget
  • Publish and compare actuals to budgets and to forecasts
Tracking performance + re\-forecasting

Demand planning

Friday 14 November, 2025
2:00 PM AEDT
Make the most of your sales and purchasing data to plan future purchases and stock holdings.
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Craig Medlyn
Craig Medlyn
Technical Sales Manager
Rebecca Ambrose
Rebecca Ambrose
Head of Customer Marketing

In this session, learn how to:

  • Use your sales budget to see where low stocks occur
  • Calculate what effects lead time may have on your purchase decisions
  • Track your purchase plan against actuals
  • Connect sales forecast, purchasing database + finance for accurate demand planning
Demand planning
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