4Cast Pro Light

A New Generation of business Forecasting, Consolidation and Reporting software

The Light Version is a single user forecasting and reporting model designed for the Accountant or Small Company user.

Overview

• 4CastPro is a great alternative to the now discontinued Sage Winforecast

• 4CastPro is designed for the Accountant in business or practice needing consolidation, budgeting, monthly re-forecasting and a monthly management accounts pack.

• 4Cast is for the business that has recognised the limitations of the spreadsheet for business planning and reporting.

Main Features

• Easy Spreadsheet Tabbed Interface

• Company Selector on login allows you to create and load new company databases

• Easily Import Actuals from your Accounting System(s) via Sage odbc link or from an xls TB

• Drill down from summary to account detail

• Spread/Fill feature for easy population of your data eg by profile, equal spread, fill by month

• A Flex facility allows for easy what-if analysis

• Full Administration Menu to manage COA, Periods, Time Series data (eg Current Year,Last Year,Budget etc)

• Full Graphs & Reporting

• Adjustment Facility – Allows you to make group level adjustments to imported data

• Department or Site Forecasting for multi-site businesses via an Account Group set-up under COA

• Simple Consolidation of multiple companies with ability to set-up an adjustment company for company consolidation.

• All companies are set-up in a single database

Reports

• P&L Accounts in both Management Account & Statutory Account Format

• 5Year Plan Financial Reports including 1st draft of Plan narrative

• Cashflow & Fundsflow

• Consecutive Reporting will print your complete Management Account Pack with Performance v Budget in Period, Year to date, Full Year format

• Custom Reports via Excel Add-in

Forecasting Features

• Custom Excel Forecasting (with writeback) that can cover detailed Sales,Margin and Emploment forecasting

• Overhead Forecasting

• Account METHODS eg % of Account,Recurring,Provision,Accrual,Loan etc

• 5 Year Plan Tool

• Balance sheet assumptions for automatic  Balance Sheet and Cashflow forecasting

Other:

All data is saved securely into a backend database. The  MS Access (ACE) database has been chosen for portability and is capable of storing the performance of the group/company over time in a standard group chart of account format. Since this is not a transaction based system a more scaleable solution is not required

Call now for a remote demo of the software via Teamviewer.

Phone: 0800 772 0602