Cashflow Forecasting Software:
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1. Cashflow Plan is Faster, Easier & Better

Cashflow Plan is a range of software packages for preparing monthly cash flow forecasts (with projected income statements, balance sheets and ratios) for 12 months ahead for young & established businesses of all sizes and types. It incorporates a roll-forward facility to speedily update the projections every month. Use it for business plans, cashflow planning and management, budgeting, fund raising etc. Cashflow Plan runs as a powerful, easy-to-use template with Excel (versions 5, 7, 8, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 365) using Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win7,8,10).

Important Note: Cash-Plan requires a Windows-based, desktop version of Excel. It will not run, on account of its extensive use of macros, with any cloud-based versions of Excel (or other similar spreadsheet types). If using Office 365 or Office 16, Excel must be installed on a Windows PC.

Save time and money and add substantial business, financial and spreadsheet know-how to your cashflow planning - check the benefits below or get more details and free trial downloads. For multi-year projections, see Exl-Plan.

With 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. Here's why:

Cashflow Plan uses Microsoft Excel releases 5, 7, 8, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 365 running on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win7,8,10.

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 projections. If you are an advanced Excel user, you can utilize this expertise to enhance and expand Cashflow Plan to meet particular needs. To see its scope, you can download free trial copies of all six versions of Cashflow Plan.

Cashflow Plan incorporates comprehensive facilities and features. It is suitable for managers and business people with minimal previous experience of financial or business planning as well as for experienced planners, accountants, consultants and model-builders.

Cashflow Plan 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 (these are based on Exl-Plan which shares many common features with Cashflow Plan) covering the basics of setting and using Cashflow Plan.

The purchase prices and upgrade fees for Cashflow Plan are as follows:

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2. Advantages of Using Cashflow Plan

Cashflow Plan offers you many significant benefits and advantages including:

• It saves substantial time and money. With Cashflow Plan, you only need to familiarize yourself with its range of variable and reports before you start entering assumptions and planning.
• Cashflow Plan is well-tested, robust, powerful and expandable. It is also clearly documented and supported.
• Cashflow Plan is error-free and incorporates extensive error trapping to help prevent users introducing errors when using Cashflow Plan. For examples of errors that can arise in spreadsheets, have a look at this listing of spreadsheet mistakes.
• You don't have to be a financial whizz-kid or spreadsheet rocket scientist to make detailed projections and to explore complex scenarios with Cashflow Plan.
• Building and testing a comparable model to Cashflow Plan could require hundreds (thousands?) of hours of spreadsheet programming, worksheet formatting and formulae entry. In contrast, you can be up-and-running with Cashflow Plan in less than a hour.
• If you already have a spreadsheet or financial background, you can use this expertise to expand and tailor Cashflow Plan to handle special factors or to get into greater detail.

If 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 your business's size and stage of development.

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3. Use Cashflow Plan to Improve Cash Flow

Most importantly, Cashflow Plan serves as a tool which allows you to concentrate on the task of cashflow planning rather than programming. It frees you from having to write hundreds of formulae and routines and allows you to devote more of their time to researching assumptions and evaluating the resultant projections.

Cashflow Plan can help you improve cash flow and conserve scarce cash resources. Your starting point should be an up-to-date cash flow forecast for the coming 12 months constructed using Cashflow Plan. This become the "base case" and can be used to do sensitivity analyses and explore alternative scenarios for improving cash flow.

Use the list below as a guide and bear in mind that the combined impact of several modest improvements could be very substantial. This table is also available as a printable Checklist for Improving Cashflows (PDF document or web page). Note that all versions of Cashflow Plan contain a dynamic version of this checklist which is linked to Cashflow Plan's projected values and ratios. It provides the basis for an ongoing cash flow improvement program which can be updated each month using Cashflow Plan's roll forward facility.

Note: If you need projections extending beyond 12 months for a business plan etc., you should have a look at Exl-Plan, our range of fully-integrated financial planners which can generate projections for months and quarters extending to three, five or seven years. Details and trial-version downloads.

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