Good Software for Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning - "PlanGuru"

Good Software - PlanGuru

Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning Software for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

PlanGuru combines business budgeting, forecasting and planning into one comprehensive solution. PlanGuru is flexible and sophisticated budgeting and forecasting software that makes it easier to set up your business budgets and forecasts without having to create a single formula.

• Business budgeting software that automatically integrates balance sheets, income statements and cash flow lets you focus on the important issues.
• Import and export utilities minimize set up time.
• Budget, forecast or plan for up to 5 years.
• Consolidate department, division or subsidiary budgets/forecasts.
• An affordable alternative to spreadsheet software for your budgeting, forecasting and planning.

Intuitive Design

PlanGuru is designed to provide the small and mid sized companies an affordable alternative to spreadsheet software for business budgeting, forecasting and planning. With PlanGuru’s intuitive design you get the look and feel of spreadsheet software without all the problems of building and maintaining spreadsheet formulas. 

With PlanGuru you can build your budgets and forecasts without ever having to create single formula. Import your accounts and historical balances with one of PlanGuru’s import utilities, choose from one of PlanGuru’s powerful budgeting/forecasting methods, enter your assumptions and see the results.

Easy to use budgeting/forecasting methods

Business budgeting and planning is a process of refinement, especially small business budgeting. As you prepare your budget/forecast, one of the things you will like most about PlanGuru is that as soon as you add a new line to your budget/forecast or change an assumption, you immediately see the impact on your balance sheet, P&L and cash flow. 

You will have a variety of budgeting/forecasting methods that would be almost impossible to do in your spreadsheets duplicate in your spreadsheet software.

Set up a note payable by just entering the terms of the note

Set up a line of credit that automatically advances or pays down the line.

Automatically compute receivables, payables, prepaid expenses, withheld and accrued taxes and more.

If you have already computed budgeted/forecasted amounts in your spreadsheet software you can link lines in your budget/forecast to the spreadsheets. Plus, you can create supporting schedules to support line items in your budget/forecast and use non-financial items in your budgets.

The tool of choice

PlanGuru product has been on the market for 10 years. Since 1999, PlanGuru business budgeting and forecasting software has been chosen by small and medium sized businesses and by over 3,000 accounting firms. These professional advisors chose PlanGuru as their tool of choice for advising their clients on budgeting, forecasting and planning because it is easy to use and provides their clients with the information they need to make their business more successful. 

Regardless of size, your business should have a budget and a plan for the future. With PlanGuru business budgeting, forecasting and planning software, you can take the pain out of the budgeting and planning process and start realizing the benefits.

PlanGuru Professional

When it comes to preparing budgets, projections and forecasts PlanGuru Professional makes your spreadsheet software obsolete. Simply put, you’ll do more in less time with PlanGuru business forecasting and planning software!

With PlanGuru Professional you get:

• The ability to create budgets and forecasts without ever having to create or maintain a formula
• Intuitive spreadsheet like user interface without the spreadsheet hassles
• Customizable financial statements and reports
• Automatic financial ratios
• Automatic breakeven analysis
• Import account data directly from QuickBooks®
• Ability to import from and export to Excel

PlanGuru Consultant

PlanGuru Consultant is the right solution if you want to take your budgeting, forecasting and planning to the next level.

PlanGuru Consultant gives you all the features of PlanGuru Professional PLUS:

• Improve the business planning process with goal setting features
• Consolidate up to 20 departments, divisions or subsidiaries
• Set up a performance measurement system
• Value a business with PlanGuru Business Valuation tools
• Import account data directly from QuickBooks®
• Tools to help Professional accountants complying with AICPA reporting guidelines

PlanGuru Special Edition for QuickBooks® Users

The Special Edition for QuickBooks® Users makes preparing your budget easy. This single year budgeting tool is seamlessly integrated with QuickBooks and streamlines the budgeting process by providing you with enhanced budgeting capabilities and analytical tools to help you analyze your results.

With PlanGuru Special Edition for QuickBooks® Users for you get:

• Seamless integration with QuickBooks® Pro, Premier and Enterprise
• A budgeting wizard to guide you through the budgeting process in a matter of minutes
• Reports to help you analyze your results
• On-screen analysis tools
• Dashboard of up to 6 key performance indicators