Cost Variance Budget vs Actual Forecasts 5 Years (Excel XLSX)

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This product (Cost Variance Budget vs Actual Forecasts 5 Years) is an Excel template (XLSX), which you can download immediately upon purchase.

Calculate company schedule cash flows from the initial start to the operating phases.
Can be used for diving into detailed costing revenue streams, including detailed COGS and Maintenance. You can experiment with pricing and marketing scenarios and various contract terms and visualize potential revenue variations. Expenses such as utility costs, labour, facilities, routine maintenance, and overheads. Modify these inputs to understand their effects on profitability.
Strategic Capital Expenditure Planning: Anticipate or visualize future growth with insights into capital expenditures for company expansion.

Enter your actual or projected starting budgeted monthly revenue, (expected revenue growth), COGS, and operating expenses and then manually enter the monthly actuals for the same periods. A resulting variance analysis will show the % difference in actuals relative to variance as well as a cumulative difference in net income.

Track Total Revenue, Total COGS, Gross Margin, Operational Expenses, EBITDA

Key Highlights of the Budget vs Real Exceed Expectations

– Track budget/projected vs actuals by month and view yearly totals
– Simple to explore dashboard for client comfort and get to critical information
– See information for a month-to-month and easily view summaries
– 5 Charts per year to visualize budget versus actual
– Quickly and effectively print to communicate with management
– Track month-to-month budget versus real information side-by-side

With this budget vs actuals and projections template, you'll be able to

– Compare year-to-date project or product developments with forecasted – per category or by item
– Compare YTD totals projected cost vs real costs
– Track expenditure KPIs YTD and compare it with the budget
– Easily Spot trends, both positive and negative
– Offer assistance to production managers, Scrum Masters etc

Provides thorough oversight, tracking, and reporting of variance finances, including updating budget utilisation and projections.

Eliminates the need to create project variance finance trackers from scratch and includes common actual and projection components.

Offers several chart tabs for the cost status that can be used in senior management reports and status reports.

Source: Best Practices in Budgeting & Forecasting Excel: Cost Variance Budget vs Actual Forecasts 5 Years Excel (XLSX) Spreadsheet, Willcox PMO