Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting
Built with the latest technologies, Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting is a cloud-based embedded solution that connects to your business process applications. Phocas’ intuitive interface, while retaining some familiar aspects of spreadsheets also provides intuitive modern features to accelerate adoption. All of your data is saved in the cloud, enabling you to dynamically access your reports, budgets, and forecasts from anywhere to collaborate safely with colleagues accelerating the planning process.
The yearly budget season can be taxing as most departments struggle to access vital data to build a budget. With Phocas, you’ll access financial reports, as well as sales and operational data to help you build a budget and plan with confidence. Assign security and share workflows with colleagues so they can directly contribute to the budget.
See Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting in action
Automate and streamline budget collaboration with an intuitive assignment, submission, and approval process for each account code line. With built-in security set by Finance, GL codes are only visible to the rightful people.
Designed to have familiar spreadsheet features while retaining a modern Phocas feel, users can navigate the budget worksheet with ease, add commentary to cells and have visibility to other users’ changes in real-time.
Data in non-financial databases can be leveraged so that the true budget drivers including sales and headcount data are included in your budgeting process.
Designed with the business user in mind, the worksheet maintains the familiar feel of spreadsheet but with many modern intuitive features and short cuts.
User-friendly budgeting allows contributors to readily engage in the process, gain a deeper understanding of the financial data and be more accountable for their numbers.
Budget and forecast with confidence with a driver-based financial model that incorporates accounting, workforce, sales and operational data
Learn more“We had been looking for a faster & simpler way to budget to replace Excel. The first impression with Budgeting and Forecasting during testing and working with the team at Phocas has been enlightening. We believe Phocas will help us implement the great game of business methodology within our business, getting more of our team engaged and understanding the secret language of business 'the financials'.”
Billy Hart
Group CFO, HG Group“The platform offers great flexibility to create budgets from past results of sales and financial data (also in Phocas), with control when working with multiple contributors and entities. As we move our budgeting process onto this platform it will save hundreds of hours of data entry and validation.”
Mitchell Suckling
System Manager, HG Group“Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting is an excellent addition to Phocas’ financial offering. It will allow us to budget more thoroughly while saving time. I love that you are able to assign category/accounts to individuals for review, to ensure each department has a say in the budgeting process. I am looking forward to rolling out this product with our live data to budget for 2021.”
Justin Capar
Controller, American Metals Supply Company“The potential to centralize WD40’s entire Europe budgeting program into a single source of truth. The advantages of combining sales data budgets onto the GL is a game-changer for the budgeting process. It removes complex spreadsheets and coupled with workflow and approval processes, ensures the business is only a click away from seeing the current status of budgets or forecasts.”
Jonathan Kemp
MD, Wisx + Epicor implementation partner, WD40