Forecast 5

It’s an entrepreneur’s dream: a wonderful piece of software when you get to grips with it. You can look back, look forward and control the whole production process with it.

Forecast 5 has helped us to deliver an integrated reporting and forecasting advisory service to our clients, regardless of business size or sector.

In an ever-changing environment planning is critical. Forecast 5 allows the Centre to plan in a changing environment to ensure it has the resources available to meet the challenges encountered and move forward with relative confidence.

Compared to what I researched a year ago, F5 was still good value for money and had flexibility to add as much detail as you wanted. It produced a Balance Sheet and Cashflow, and consolidations are done with ease. Being able to load multiple forecasts is a bonus which some of the other programs did not have.

Replacing Excel with Forecast 5 was a no brainer really. I could see the value and benefits of having a sound Budgeting and Forecasting system in place. Working closely with Forecast 5, our needs and concerns were heard and their willingness to improve the product to work better for us was astounding, a great testament to the team.

Great development and support. They are always willing to listen and improve.

Geof answers the phone or promptly calls me back when I call. The Forecast 5 team are fantastic with taking on feedback and are willing to enhance the system functionalities to better meet the business needs.

The transition to Forecast 5 was easy... And cost effective. I felt it stood out as the ideal way to mirror and manage our company’s performance. We had been using Sage Winforecast and found the transition to Forecast 5 was easy and the enhanced functionality has been really useful and cost effective. I like it being a stand-alone package that I can use anywhere. Its easy interface with Excel means I can map sales data from many different products into our office system. I have found Johnny Kipps to be really helpful and responsive whenever I have a query.

Forecast 5 allows us to break the business down to manageable parcels, using a series of ‘standalone’ & relatively simple excel templates reflecting the various divisions of the business. These ‘templates’ can then be collated through Forecast 5 to produce financial statement forecasts that have solid integrity.