Deadlines get pushed, critical decisions get delayed, and working late becomes the norm when month-end close, ad hoc analysis, and reconciling become increasingly challenging tasks.
Manually exporting, formatting, and consolidating data is not only an inefficient use of your finance team’s time, it poses a risk to data integrity.
It’s hard to produce accurate financial statements when you don’t have the technical skills to make last-minute changes or modify a report and when you can’t be sure the data remain unchanged.
Create, modify, and upload new plans quickly with Planning Wand, an Excel add-in that allows for the validation and uploading of planning data from Excel into SAP. Take advantage of familiar Excel to easily achieve monthly forecasting instead of only yearly planning.
Build new or modify pre-existing Excel planning workbooks to suit your preferred budgeting methodology. Planning Wand includes pre-integrated functions that support cost planning, new GL planning, activity planning, PCA planning, and SKF planning.
Real-time Excel models avoid the constraints of manual, time-consuming processes and empower companies to update plans and produce new forecasts quickly and easily. Planning Wand, used with GL Wand, transforms Excel into the front-end for SAP planning functionality.
Whether the fiscal planning process is an exciting time for you, or the idea of your next budgeting exercise makes you feel anxious, this whitepaper will introduce you to some of the most common budgeting challenges and, most importantly, how to overcome them with budgeting technology designed for Microsoft Dynamics.
In this whitepaper, you will get access to:
“The nature of our business is such that we need to be flexible. GL Wand
allows us to operate as we need, rather than being forced to fit into a specific
reporting structure.”
