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Cashflow Plan - Introduction
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1. Introduction to Cashflow Plan RangeCashflow Plan is a range of powerful, easy-to-use software packages for preparing comprehensive monthly cashflow projections for 12 months ahead. You can use it for cashflow planning, budgets, business planning, fund raising etc. for young & established businesses of all sizes and types. It incorporates a roll-forward facility to help you to speedily update the projections every month. More powerful versions also include a tool for consolidating projections.
Cashflow Plan will help plan your business's cash requirements, improve control over cashflows and conserve cash resources. It will be especially useful if you need to forecast cashflows in the context of:
Cashflow Plan is pre-formatted to handle the very wide range of the variables and functions normally encountered when preparing cashflow and financial projections. Based on your assumptions, it compiles detailed, fully-integrated financial projections for the coming year on a monthly basis, and for the initial three months on a weekly basis. It automatically produces 20+ pro-forma financial and management reports together with numerous graphs for key variables. You can download free trial copies of all versions of Cashflow Plan. Cashflow Plan is available in six versions (Free, Micro, Lite, Plus, Super and Ultra) to enable you to select the best planning tool to meet your business's needs. Each version can handle either UK/International or US/Canadian accounting conventions. Cashflow Plan is being used in over a hundred countries with the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and South Africa predominating. All versions have the flexibility to handle manufacturing, distribution and service businesses. They are suitable for established businesses as well as startups and strategic business units within major corporations. Cashflow Plan is also ideal if you are a professional adviser, consultant, training organization, financial institution or enterprise support agency.
Cashflow Plan runs as a powerful, easy-to-use template with Excel (versions 5, 7, 8, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007) using Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista). You will find Cashflow Plan easy-to-use because all the formulae for financial calculations are pre-written; reports are reformatted and clearly laid out; menu structures follow logical sequences; and online help is available to the user at all stages. As Cashflow Plan incorporates extensive formulae and preprogrammed menus & buttons (about 150 items) you only need a very basic knowledge of Excel to prepare highly professional and presentable cashflow projections. Are you unclear about the importance of cash to your business and the difference between its cashflows and profits? Then, have a look at Making Cash Flow Forecasts. See also the Checklist for Improving Cashflow. If you are an experienced Excel user, Cashflow Plan offers a familiar environment which you can tailor and expand to meet specialist needs and to utilize existing spreadsheet-based data without getting involved in any extensive import/export procedures. Irrespective as to whether you have minimal experience with financial and cashflow planning, or you are a seasoned planner, accountant, consultant or model-builder, Cashflow Plan will help sort out your cashflow projections. It will save you time, effort, and money by letting you concentrate on managing your business's cash, rather than on building a new tool to generate your projections. Have a look at more benefits of using Cashflow Plan. Cashflow Plan is very well documented. It contains extensive online help (130+ topics) along with a 100-page Word-based version of its manual and a series of Flash-based tutorials (running for 19 minutes) covering setting up Excel, getting started, the basics and using Quik-Plan. Manuals and tutorials are included in the download files for all versions of Cashflow Plan. The Super and Ultra versions are also supplied with a Cashflow Plan Consolidator Guide which is included in the download files for Cashflow Plan Super and Ultra. For additional guidance, you can watch several How to ... Tutorials (based on Exl-Plan which shares many common features with Cashflow Plan) covering the basics of setting up and using Cashflow Plan. Purchase prices and upgrade fees for Cashflow Plan are as follows:
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2. When to Use Cashflow PlanCashflow Plan is a software tool for preparing cashflow projections for a business. It will be especially useful to your business if you need to improve its future net cashflow. Cashflow Plan will help you to plan cash requirements and thereby improve control over your business's cashflows and to conserve its cash resources. For more guidance, see the Checklist for Improving Cashflow and Making Cash Flow Forecasts.
In addition to compiling detailed monthly cashflow forecasts, Cashflow Plan automatically generates fully-integrated income statements (profit and loss accounts) and balance sheets on a monthly basis. This makes Cashflow Plan very suitable for many other purposes where you may need 12-month projections:
Also, you can use Cashflow Plan for first-cut cashflow projections before getting involved in detailed planning - it runs satisfactorily with minimal assumption values. In addition, it incorporates an unique facility called Quik-Plan which greatly simplifies and speeds up the compilation of fully-integrated, high-level 12-month projections (cashflows, income statements and balance sheets). Get more information or download a free trial version to see Cashflow Plan for yourself. If you plan to download, this short Quick Start Guide will help you get started.
You can easily integrate Cashflow Plan's output into a planning document compiled with Microsoft Word. For an example of this, have a look at Free-Plan.
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3. Cashflow Plan is Faster, Easier & BetterWith Cashflow Plan, you get a better-built planner with more features and facilities in a fraction of the time and cost that it would take a very experienced spreadsheet user with a financial background to develop a comprehensive planner from the ground up. Which method do you think is likely to be the fastest, best way to prepare your cashflow projections?
Moral: You don't need to reinvent the wheel. Use Cashflow Plan ! Try before you buy here !
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4. Benefits of Using Cashflow PlanCashflow Plan offers you many significant benefits including:
Most importantly, Cashflow Plan serves as a tool which allows you to concentrate on the task of cashflow planning rather than programming. It saves you from having to write hundreds of formulae and routines and allows you to devote more of your valuable time to researching assumptions and evaluating the resultant projections. Used effectively, Cashflow Plan can help improve cash flow and conserve scarce cash resources.
In addition to generating the 12-month projections, Cashflow Plan includes tools and facilities which will help you to:
If your business is new to cashflow planning, Cashflow Plan allows you to start planning with the minimum of fuss and maximum of help. With a choice of six versions (Free, Micro, Lite, Plus, Super and Ultra), Cashflow Plan places a simple but sophisticated cashflow planning tool on your desktop, irrespective of size and stage of development of your business. In a nutshell, Cashflow Plan offers you a better-built cashflow planner with more features and facilities in a fraction of the time and cost that it would take a very experienced spreadsheet user with financial background to develop a planner from the ground up. Here's why.
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