Sage Forecasting Software

Sage 50 Forecasting software provides a quick and easy way to prepare sophisticated forecasts, allowing you to plan ahead, gain greater control of your business and greater confidence in the decisions you make. It will help you assess your expected sales income, costs and profitability.

Sage 50 Forecasting is the non-consolidated version if you require Consolidated reports please see Sage WinForecast Professional below.

Sage 50 Forecasting v2007 is the current version, it replaced the previous version of Sage forecasting software - Sage Financial Forecasting.

Sage 50 Forecasting software makes it easy to:

Prepare financial forecasts and a range of reports including Profit & Loss, Cash Flow etc.

Plan effectively and gain a wider view of your business

Monitor your company's financial health on a weekly, monthly or annual basis

Demonstrate total professionalism in the information you provide to your business partners, clients or bank

Explore future growth opportunities and potential risks with 'What if?' scenarios

Using Sage 50 Forecasting:

Sage 50 Forecasting software will work equally well on its own or when linked to Sage accounting software (Line 50 v8 upwards, Sage Instant Accounts v8.2 upwards), to the latest version of Sage Payroll or to Microsoft Excel 2000 and upwards (but is NOT compatible with Office 2010). This integration can help automate much of the data entry tasks and ongoing updates.

Sage 50 Forecasting allows you to create forecasts for your business that can be either as detailed or as high level as you need. It allows you to explore angles such as: 'What if costs increased by 10%?' or 'Can I afford to increase my advertising spend?'

By constantly updating your forecasts with current data, Sage 50 Forecasting software allows you to reforecast easily, using actual results, while still leaving your original forecast intact. All complex areas, such as VAT, PAYE/NI and Corporation Tax are automatically calculated so you don't have to spend time working them out.

The main features in Sage 50 Forecasting v2007 are as follows:

Create forecasts automatically from Sage Accounts data (Sage Line 50 v8 upwards) or Sage Instant Accounts (v8.2 upwards) using the chart of accounts to create the Sage 50 Forecasting record structure. You can bring across the following info into your forecast:
- Record structure based on chart of Accounts
- Nominal budgets, Prior Year and Actual values
- Financial Year start date
- Company name
- Company VAT scheme
- Currency exchange rates and default currency
- Customer and supplier pay due days
- Automatic Hotlink to Sage 50 records

Sage 50 departmental analysis support - Hotlink your departmental actual or budget data into your forecast. Hotlinks have been extended in Forecasting 2007 to support Sage 50 accounts departmental budgets

Central hotlinks management -Save time by surfacing all your hotlinks to Sage Instant Accounts, Sage 50 Accounts, Sage 50 Payroll and Excel into 1 screen from where they can easily be managed.

Graphical Output - Sage 50 Forecasting 2007 lets you have a graphical and drillable representation of key info. Great for presentations. Graphs are available for:
Profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and funds flow.
The graphs can be viewed on screen, printed, copied, exported as an image to Excel or as a PDF file, drilled down and can also be saved as templates.

Quick, easy and reliable forecast creation.

Create multi-year forecasts up to a maximium of 50 years

12 or 13-period forecasts.

Enter data at weekly, monthly and annual levels.

Create a range of 'What if?' scenarios to help analyse your business sensitivity.

Prepare comprehensive Profit & Loss, Funds Flow, Balance Sheet, Year-on-Year and Cash Flow reports with greater accuracy and speed.

Improve/monitor the accuracy of your forecasts by comparing your actual performance with your budgets and re-forecast accordingly. Easy to produce variance reports, and to re-forecast based on actual data.

VAT, PAYE, NI, Corporation Tax and Bank interest is calculated automatically.

View changes instantly to the bottom line using the key forecast values within a value pane rather than generating separate reports for comparison purposes.

Create unlimited departments.

Project your stock purchases, usage and levels, including Bills of Materials.

Forecast the effect of taking out loans and HP agreements - Loans and HP agreements are important ways of funding expansion and asset purchases. Make sure that you understand the impact of the repayments on your business.

Forecast your wage costs on a per-employee basis, automatically calculating PAYE, NI and Pension deductions

Easily create provisions for bad debts and obsolete stock.

Precise forecasts need to take all possibilities into account - ensure that your forecasts take account of customers failing to pay you and stock becoming unusable by providing for these situations.

Model the impact factoring and stock financing could have on your business.

Forecast data can be linked to multiple data sources. Change the data in the link and your forecast is automatically updated.

Data can be entered in foreign currencies, allowing rapid adjustment if exchange rates change, and data is converted to one currency in the report set.

Input figures based on cash receipts and payments and the software will work out all the VAT calculations for net sales.

Click here for a quick easy to read tick chart comparing Sage Financial Forecasting and Sage WinForecast Professional Consolidated.

Sage software installation, training and support for Sage Forecasting software also available from Site4. Click here for details.

Minimum System Requirements:

PC with a Pentium 1GHZ Processor, recommended 2GHZ processor.
Operating system required one of the following: Microsoft Windows XP (recommended), Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista or Windows 7. If using Windows 7 64Bit you will need to download and install the 64Bit update.
Note: This product will not install or run on Microsoft Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows NT4 operating systems.
Minimum 512MB RAM, recommended 1GB RAM
Minimum 400MB of free disk space after Windows has been installed, recommended 600MB
Network users only: Minimum 100Mbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows networking, recommended 1Gbps
Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and later editions (not compatible with Office 2010)
Please ensure latest Microsoft updates are installed
Please note whilst Sage programmes do run on PCs with the minimum requirements, performance cannot be guaranteed.

Delivery Format: Boxed product

To buy a copy of Sage 50 Forecasting v2007 choose the correct license size for your business from the options below. 45 days Sage support included FREE with the software.

Sage WinForecast Professional Consolidated offers businesses with different divisions / companies the option to consolidate forecasts.

Click here for a quick easy to read tick chart comparing Sage Financial Forecasting and Sage WinForecast Professional Consolidated.

Sage software installation, training and support also available from Site4. Click here for details.

Delivery Format: Boxed product

To buy a copy of Sage WinForecast Professional Consolidated software choose the correct license size for your business from the options below. The single user is a licence for use on a single stand alone computer, if you require the software on a network you'll need to buy the multi-user networked variant for the number of concurrent users you require. 45 days Sage support included FREE with the software.