In as little as two weeks, companies can implement a budgeting solution that saves time and money throughout the year by automating manual processes inherent in spreadsheet based systems. Microsoft Forecaster simplifies, speeds up, and more efficiently manages the entire process. It provides timely, comprehensive information allowing you to monitor status on a daily basis, and quickly adjust the plan to take advantage of new business opportunities and challenges.

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Microsoft Forecaster allows you to:
Implement Quickly	Implementations are completed in as little as two weeks. Spreadsheet ‘look and feel’ allows for a short learning curve for budget contributors. ExpressLink allows budget administrators to quickly import General Ledger accounts and balances without requiring a technical background. Parent-child hierarchies – known as trees – save a significant amount of time by providing automatic consolidations.
Control the Process	Web-based application creates a single entry for all contributors providing real-time updates and eliminates duplicate entries. Group and user security rules allow administrators to control access throughout the entire application. Audit trail allow managers to retrieve historical changes by user and account. Global instruction, account memos, and announcements, enhance organizational communications during budget process.
Adjust Easily and Often	On-line reporting offer users the ability to see how the budget is rolling up at any given time. Viewers can use the information to make daily decisions and necessary adjustments. Copy version data, via a wizard, allows budget administrators to quickly and easily create multiple budget versions, re-forecasts, or what-if scenarios. Top down adjustments and allocations via wizard menus provides administrators a simple method to handle complex tasks. Restructure organizational hierarchies with drag-and-drop functionality to arrange information for needed analysis. ExpressLink allows for periodic “actual” updates for rolling forecasts.
Additional features
HR Budgeting	Human resource budgeting allows for understanding and control of salary, bonus, overtime and benefit related expenses. Existing employee information may be brought in from a payroll/HR module using the Microsoft Forecaster import wizard.
Capital Budgeting	Capital budgeting allows users to standardize the budgeting of new capital expenditures by cost center.
Modeling	Allows companies to follow business drivers by creating formulas for revenue, expenses or statistics.
View Online Reports	Custom flexible reports including income statements, balance sheets and human resource reports, with drilldown to underlying details, can be designed to give insight into how budgets are impacting the projected bottom line.
Workflow	Workflow allows users and approvers to track the status of a budget.
Top-Down Budgeting	Top-down adjustments or allocations are easily made using a wizard.
Integration to Microsoft® FRx®	Microsoft Forecaster tightly integrates with Microsoft FRx for enhanced reporting options.