BudgetGuide™

A breakthrough for controllers, finance managers, department managers, division heads – anyone who manages a budget. a simple, yet effective solution to build, maintain and analyze budgets and forecasts, including full financial analyses and financial reporting. BudgetGuide is designed to streamline the budgeting and forecasting process while improving the accuracy and timeliness of critical financial information. With BudgetGuide, you have several deployment options:

• Enterprise – Our core offering enables companies to manage a collaborative budget process with accurate data and powerful analysis. Managers across the organization enter their data quickly and accurately, leveraging the full power of BudgetGuide’s analytics and financial reporting capabilities. BudgetGuide Enterprise resides on a central server, accessed by users over the LAN, WAN, or Citrix environment.


• Desktop – For emerging companies of 50 employees or less, BudgetGuide Desktop provides a cost effective yet powerful planning solution. A company financial officer such as a CFO or Controller can create a professional budget with the related financial statements and analytics, simply and economically. The software can be installed on a single computer or over the network.



Acteon BudgetGuide features and benefits include:

Features	Benefits
Intuitive Workflow	Enables collaborative environment, increasing manager participation, to reduce time, cost and effort in preparing more accurate budgets and forecasts.
OLAP Analytics	Enables users to drill down and analyze financial information to better understand operational trends and/or anomalies and act accordingly.
Financial Statement Report Writer	Enables users to build custom financial statements including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements with familiar spreadsheet interface reducing learning and training costs and increasing productivity.
Versatile Revenue Modeling	Enables tracking unlimited revenue attributes and categories such as products, customers, or regions completely customized to your business to allow for more accurate and cost effective forecasting.
Unlimited "What if" Scenarios	Measures the impact of different business models on an ad hoc basis to provide management with the ability to make better informed decisions.
Flexible Chart Accounts Editor	Simplifies and reduces the time and effort for chart of accounts set-up with the ability to handle unlimited digits and segments.
Line Item Expense Wizard	Simplifies data entry for operational managers resulting in lower costs and more accurate information.
Expense Allocations	Enables users to allocate overhead expenses across operations with minimal effort and cost.
Plug and Play Software	Minimizes the need for expensive consulting services.




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BudgetGuide Vertical Products


Though BudgetGuide in its native form can accommodate most industries including manufacturing, distribution, not for profits, and others, we realize that certain industries have unique characteristics. For several of these industries, we’ve developed product features accordingly. Below is a listing of our current vertical product offerings. If you would like information on these products, please contact our sales department by phone, (978) 369-1211 or by email, sales@acteontechnologies.com.



• BudgetGuide for the Contract Furniture Industry
• BudgetGuide for the Food and Beverage Industry
• BudgetGuide for the Health Care Industry