The financial planning and budgeting software
Put your trust in controlling software that’s not beholden to a particular industry and covers all the aspects of business planning. Say goodbye to traditional planning software systems that are based mainly on Excel spreadsheets and non-standardized data, and lay the foundations for integrated financial planning and professional financial controlling that includes transparent budget planning.
LucaNet’s financial planning and budgeting software has achieved top rankings in BARC’s Planning Survey, having particularly impressed judges in the data transfer, user friendliness, and performance categories. Since it’s based on a standardized system, LucaNet business planning software puts you in a position to automate your budgeting and financial planning processes and manage them in flexible ways.
With LucaNet, you will be upgrading your internal planning, forecasting, and modeling processes with a single budgeting tool. The included liquidity planning software will provide you with a comprehensive view of your expected financial position through your financial plans and models. LucaNet’s user-friendly budgeting software ensures the creation of scalable and controlled processes as all members of your financial department can easily adopt without any external assistance. Our budgeting software offers direct connections to your source systems and automation of complex business processes. You will again have time for what really matters – analyzing your planning data to make informed decisions.
This is what an ideal financial planning software can do in controlling
LucaNet is your easy-to-use software for integrated financial planning and budgeting. Benefit among others from:
- Dynamic planning on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
- Sub-plans at the cost center and/or cost unit level
- Automatic, rules-based derivation of integrated business planning (P&L planning, balance sheet planning, liquidity planning)
- Representation of direct liquidity planning
- Planning of scenarios and forecasts
- Integration interfaces are immediately usable and standardized for over 250 source systems
- Secure financial planning software in accordance with the IDW PS 880 auditing standard
9 surefire steps to devising the perfect financial plan
Only LucaNet financial planning software simplifies complexity
- Use various planning dimensions in our financial planning software for clear visualizations of your planning variations and models.
- You can set up any number of financial planning data levels for budgets, forecasts, and scenarios and then juxtapose them in comparison views.
- Define any planning period you wish, and easily track changes in expenses.
- The balance sheet and cash flow statement used for planning are fully automated on the basis of payment modalities and accounting rules and are derived from the planning (expenses, income and capital expenditure) in real time.
- Built-in unique payment, investment, and loan assumptions are the centerpiece of the integrated financial planning in LucaNet controlling software.
- All accounting rules can easily be retrieved and adopted in all subsequent planning processes.
- The drill-down function is also available throughout the financial planning process, from the group and company levels to cost centers and the underlying planning documents. You can use it starting from any structure, as well – including direct liquidity planning.
- LucaNet financial planning software allows you to add comments or descriptions, track who makes changes, and upload support documentation in a variety of formats (e-mail, PDF, Excel, etc.).
- A wizard is also available for the planning of (intercompany) loans.
- All the data relating to a loan (amount, repayment, interest, charges, etc.) can be entered in a clearly arranged format in our planning software.
- All accounting entries resulting from the loan are calculated and posted automatically.
- In the LucaNet financial planning software, you will receive a transparent overview of projected employee expenses, including salary, bonuses, and payroll taxes
- The different planning variations (budget planning, planning of forecasts and scenarios) can be compared and analyzed in freely configurable display modes.
- Difference columns with sparklines, a traffic light function, and a commenting function are also available in our planning software.
- In our financial planning software you can add a comment to each individual value or difference.
A professional enhancement for your LucaNet software
App: Business valuation
- Mapping common processes in business valuation
- Process-dependent calculation of weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
- Automated sensitivity analysis when various valuation parameters change
App: Maturity analysis
- Analyze open items by category and maturity
- Drill down to the individual posting level
- Move open items to your plan based on calculated payment statistics
Would you like to learn more about our apps? If so, get in touch with customerservice@lucanet.com for all the details on your very own custom software solution.
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Want to see our software for controlling, financial planning, and budgeting in action? Are you also interested in finding out where and how LucaNet software can offer you support that goes beyond P&L, balance sheet, and liquidity planning, financial controlling and budgeting? We’d be pleased to offer you a live, personalized demo with no obligation – either at your offices or in an online presentation!
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