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Customers forecasting completes financial planning with customer data. For example, a company can forecast sales by indicating accounts for the most important customers.
Forecasting with the double entry method also allows you to indicate accounts for individual clients. Depending on the requirement, customer management can be done with balance sheet accounts, profit and loss accounts or with cost and profit centers.
When changing a budget movement, the forecasts for each customer are also updated individually.
Accounts table
Set up accounts for customers in the Accounts table. In the Estimate column you will also have the updated forecast balances for the accounting period. At a glance, you can view what the forecast for the individual customer will be.
Evolution chart
If you display the Graphs window, positioning the cursor on an account or a group you will see the graph for the evolution of the customers.
If you click on the Current, Previous or Estimate caption, you can hide the graph.
Account card with estimate data
With the Account card command you have the possibility to see in detail all the movements for each customer.
- Select budget movements.
- Indicates the customer's account.
- Set up the period.
If you indicate a period that extends beyond the accounting period, the program will automatically generate Forecasts over several years. - When indicating a group, you will see the movements of all the accounts belonging to that group.
- When in the Budget table, you can access the customer's card with a click on the small icon next to the account number.
Enhanced Balance sheet with groups
Through Enhanced Balance Sheet with groups you may select to work with values subdivided by column per period. In this way you can see the evolution of liquidity by day, week, month, quarter, semester, year, etc.
- In Columns section indicate that you wish to view the Budget values.
- In Sections you can select the accounts or groups you want to include in the printout.
You may select to display the asset and depreciation accounts only. - Set up the Period.
If a period that exceeds the accounting period, is indicated, the program will automatically switch to budgeting over several years. - Indicate the subdivision by period required.
- If you think you're use this print setting again, create a Composition.
Accounting Report
The Accounting Report is similar to the one for Enhanced balance sheet with groups, with the difference that the display takes place in the Accounts table in columns.
You can therefore use it to get an instant view of the evolution of liquidity accounts.