BUDGETING

Budgeting with CONTROL® gives you the advantage to have maximum scalability, flexibility, efficiency and timeliness over your budgeting process. Be it, preparing your corporate budget or your divisional budget, CONTROL® easily facilitates your budget planning at the very granular level you need. Each and every business need to manage the bottom up and top down corporate budgeting process is available through CONTROL®.

Features
	Integrated workflow both in LAN/WAN and Web Interfaces, includes workflow rules like due date, time, process sequence
	The extensible, scalable technology to support concurrent collaboration from department to enterprise levels.
	Familiar MS Excel-based data entry and review
	Common, shared multi-dimensional database
	Secure, control update access for a broad community of contributors
	Immediate, dynamic, consolidation without administrative intervention
	Bottom-up or top down entry with Solve and Lock functions
	Extensive large scale data manipulation capabilities:
	-	Spread/Load
	-	Allocations
	-	Copy/Modify
	Built-in spreading and trending based on standard or historical patterns
	Ability to budget by sub-account, subsidiary model, or support budget values with ad-hoc scratchpads
	Support of non uniform level of detail
	Tracking of commentary and hyperlinks to support planning assumptions and rationales
	Unlimited scenarios with easy copying, factoring and comparison
	"No programming", Auto-Generated Forms for quick deployment of budget submission templates to novice end users

Benefits
	True Excel based environment Based in a familiar Excel environment, CONTROL® enables organizations to move beyond the mechanics of corporate performance management, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, sound decision-making and responsiveness.
	Flexible, real time and what if modeling CONTROL® is flexible enough to accommodate both central and decentralized requirements while consolidating results instantly at any level into one unified source of data. CONTROL® also permits real time and what if modeling to meet rapidly changing business plans.
	Data Validation CONTROL® has powerful way of validating data at any dimension combination level, which helps department, SBU’, Divn to collect quality data on time avoid surprises at later stage.
	Secure centralized database CONTROL® ® has an instantly familiar Excel based front-end and a zero footprint web interface, and stores metadata and data on a relational database of choice — Oracle, DB2/400, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, or DB2 UDB — across diverse hardware platforms and operating systems.
	Attach Unstructured Data by means of hyperlink Tell the story behind the numbers by linking the unstructured data like office documents and email to your budgets and forecasts
	Quick and real time access to line item details CONTROL® allows you to track your budget as well as actual items at the lowest level of detail through its drill down function which is possible with one click. It also enables the user to view the source data, subject with user security profile and authentication
	Web based Access and ease of deployment CONTROL® supports web deployment that enables users to use the application from remote locations without installing the software in individual computers. Ensures Zero Foot Print deployment and requires minimum dependence on the IT team for support and maintenance.
	Workflow Enabled The work flow in CONTROL® facilitates a close watch on the budget cycle by task and by responsible head. It also allows to view the status of the task such as percentage completed, the due date, responsible head and other parameters the avail the status of a certain process
	Top down and Bottom up budgeting CONTROL® provides top down budgeting where the management sets the goals and the strategy is executed by the departments and also the bottom up budgeting that helps the departments to align with the corporate strategies
	Powerful cost allocation features The inbuilt cost allocation feature in CONTROL® supports driver, factor based as well as dynamic and fixed allocations. Multiple allocations can be executed at the same time and each one could be user defined or with different rules
	Drill to source Drill to the origin of the data, even upto the invoice level in order to analyze the numbers or track the numbers. This feature helps to track until the transactional details such as the invoice number, order number, etc
	Declarative commands, fast data entry Allows you to modify and change the existing numbers by using simple declarative commands such as increase sales by 5%, decrease costs to15m and so on
	Audit Trail Comprehensive audit trail is maintained at all time, in every CONTROL® applications, which always maintains the record at granular level, with previous and current data, user id, date and time and what function has been used to change the data
	Cascading As changes are made to the detail levels of data, you instantly see the impact at the higher levels. As budget or forecast data is entered, it is instantly consolidated. As global rates or drivers are adjusted, changes cascade on demand or dynamically to associated models such as P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow