Sage 50 Forecasting

Forecasting is an essential part of business and accurate forecasts are key to business growth and success. Sage 50 helps to simplify the process and allow you to make business decisions with confidence.

Forecasts can be produced directly for Sage 50 Accounts data, Sage Instant data, your own inputted data or Microsoft Excel helping to save time and produce more accurate forecasts than simple spread sheet forecasts alone.

Sage Forecasting produces accurate professional reports in a choice of formats helping you to make the business case to secure investment and lending.

Key Features

• Confidently manage your cash flow and financial performance and use professionally presented reports to help convince investors or banks that yours is a business they can invest in.
• Capitalise on future opportunities and avoid potential pitfalls.
• Explore what if? scenarios and business ideas and make the most of new business opportunities.
• Create forecasts from Sage 50 Accounts data, Sage Instant Accounts, Sage MMS, Sage Line 100, Sage Payroll or Microsoft Excel spread sheets.
• Creates professional, accurate forecasts without you having to produce your own spread sheets, saving you hours.
• Create accurate reports and get figures you can trust.
• Predict and monitor your cash flow.
• See the impact of potential business decisions like price rises, new ventures and expansion.
• Forecast data whilst leaving your original budgets intact.
• Flexible forecasts and reports on unlimited cost and sales sections.
• Tailor your forecasts and reports around as many departments/sub-departments as you need.
• Choice of reports including: Cash Flow, Funds Flow, Profit & loss, Balance Sheet reports and graphs.
• Easy to learn and navigate.
• Automatic calculations based on built in formulae for VAT, PAYE, NI, Corporation Tax and bank interest.
• Flexible accounting periods and forecasts for up to 50 years time.
• 45 days free Sage Cover and technical support to make sure everything is set up and running smoothly.

Recommended hardware

An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor

• At least 1GB RAM
• At least 600MB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
• Network users only: 1Gbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Minimum hardware

• An IBM-compatible computer with a 1GHz (or equivalent) processor
• 512MB RAM
• 400MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
• Network users only: 100Mbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks.

Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and later editions (not compatible with Office 2010).

This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT4 operating systems.

Operates on the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP (Recommended)
• Windows Vista

Please make sure that you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.