Create a forecast

To create a new forecast for your company, you must first configure your Dashboard: the accounting and indicators must be configured. 

For more information,

see the article : "Accounting configuration", "Create an indicator"

Once the configuration is done, go to the “Forecast” menu, then click on the button at the bottom right. Fill the name of your forecast and a description.

You can then configure the elements of your forecast linked to accounting or to previously created indicators.

By default, the forecast will be created for the current fiscal year. You can modify the period, for example to create the forecast for a future year, by selecting the displayed period, then by clicking on “Add a year“.

Complete the forecast

Accounting:

The accounting forecast will be defined according to the items of your chart of accounts. You can access to the details of the sub-items by clicking on the arrow next to the label.

Several ways to fill the forecast:

• Manually: for this, you must fill your forecast directly in the corresponding fields. You can fill values monthly or yearly, then click on the arrow close to the yearly field to distribute over the months.
• By an excel file: coming soon
• Automatically: by clicking on the “PRE-FILL” button, you can pre-fill your forecast with data from a previous year. Select the targeted period, then click on “Pre-fill”. The forecast will be completed automatically according to the period chosen. You can update it manually afterwards, by directly updating the pre-filled amounts.

To add accounts from a section:

• From your accounting forecast, select a section
• Click on "Account Management" and select the accounts to add

Indicators:

You can define a forecast for all the indicators defined on this company. Depending on the frequency of the indicators, you will fill values daily, weekly, monthly etc.
As for the Accounting section, you have the option to pre-fill the forecast by clicking on “PRE-FILL”.

Publish a forecast

When your forecast is completed, click on the “PUBLISH” button to validate it, or on “SAVE” to save the values and validate it later.

Once published, you will have the possibility to load the elements of your forecast directly into your dashboard, by selecting the items with the “Forecast” label followed by the name of your forecast in the formulas of your widgets.

Update or archive a forecast

To update your forecast, click on the “Forecast” menu, then from the overview, click on the 3 points located to the right of the forecast to update or archive:

• update: to modify the name or description of the forecast
• archive: archives the forecast. It will still be accessible in the dashboard but no more modifiable from Forecast. Once archived, you can restore it from the Forecast overview, by modifying the status filter located at the top right (by default, only active forecasts are displayed) and then clicking on the button. Confirm by clicking on “Restore“