Cash flow forecast – new versions

Posted by admin on 16 November, 2009 under Business cash flow and planning, Cash flow problems, Credit crunch | 3 Comments to Read

Bowraven has recently launched it’s latest versions of the Cash Forecaster with the following versions:

- Cash Forecaster – Basic: Will forcast for up to 12-months on a monthly basis.
- Cash Forecaster – Standard: Will forecast for up to 3 years on a monthly basis for each year.
- Cash Forecaster – Vision: Will forecast for up to 5 years on a monthly basis for each year.
- Cash Forecaster – Pro and Pro Plus: will forecast for up to 7 years on a monthly basis for each year.

The latest version have been fully revised and re-vamped and include the following features:

- Forecast profit and loss and cash flows for up to 7-years on a monthly basis for each year.
- Balance sheet for the opening period and at the end of each period end.
- An option to enter up to 10 loans or hire purchase (Depending uponthe version you purchase) with a number of key features allowing you to have loan repayment holidays, interest charged to the loan or directly to the cash flow and much more.
- Up to 20 product lines with associated cost of sales lines (the number of product lines depends upon the version you purchase.
- Automatically calculates overdraft or deposit interest.
- The feature of entering flexible customer payment terms ranging from cash sales, 30-days, 60-days, 90-days and 120-days. Not only that you can allocate percentages to each payment term, as we all know customers never pay on the same date as each other.
- Flexible supplier terms allowing you to allocate a different term to each cost of sale and expense line.
- Automatic credit card charges where this is appropriate to your business.
- VAT or Sales Tax terms – the Cash Forecaster will do all the necessary calculations.
- Company tax calculator with features that allow you to adjust the profit to a taxable profit and the rate of tax and when it is paid for each of the forecast periods.
- Flexible depreciation rates and automatic calculations for any number of rates and methods that you can choose.
- Up to 30 overhead expense lines – each with its own supplier payment terms.
- Simple stock and work in progress feature.
- Factoring or Invoice Discounting option with a number of great features to allow you to see the effect of either starting or finishing invoice financing (available on the Vision, Pro and Pro Plus versions only).
- Easy income and cost of sales sensitivity analysis tool without the need to re-enter data so that you can trial various scenarios.
- Easily enter dividends or drawings by business owners and capital introduced or director/partner loans.
- Other debtors and other creditor facility.
- You can easily enter your opening balances of your business.
- Flexible headings that can be changed to suit your needs.
- Reports include an assumptions report, summary page of the forecasts which has a breakeven analysis, Cash flow forecast, profit forecast and trading summary showing the product lines, overhead report, balance sheet report, fixed asset report, loan report and VAT/Sales Tax report.

For more information and to download the latest Cash Forecaster – click here.