5Cast and 5Cast Plus are budget planning software solutions designed to help public sector organizations create budget projections and instant scenario comparisons to support data-informed decisions. Analyze your financial data, develop your budget, create multiyear or monthly financial budgets and projections based on historical trend analysis, print your reports — and then share them on your website.
5Cast budgeting software is designed to accelerate the financial planning process by eliminating time-consuming data gathering and model building. Populated directly from your accounting system, 5Cast's powerful hybrid database engine integrates historical perspective, trend analysis, and scenario comparisons, generating reports instantly to support decision making.
5Cast Plus automates operational forecasting to enable you to better manage the current year budgets. Upload monthly transactions from your financial system and produce an immediate analysis of current year actuals compared to projected monthly trend amounts, projected year-end position, and a view of your current financial health.
One of the most powerful features of 5Cast is its capability to run and view results of different financial scenarios, side-by-side, in a single table or report. Scenario modeling is somewhat complex, but 5Cast allows you to break down the process of creating, running and comparing results with saved assumption layouts, custom queries, and comparative report templates. Recognizing results of scenario assumptions with comparative measurements, including Actuals, Cumulative, and Year-Over-Year, present a powerful projection picture for decision-makers.
The process of effectively communicating and executing a multiyear budget projection plan is essential for improved financial vision and decision-making support for every administrative and policy making level of governance. With 5Cast, the ability to strategically incorporate assumptions and variables to future revenues and expenses, at any level of granularity, are crucial for gaining insight and understanding to the impact of potential variances in key assumptions, and communicating results with comprehensive reporting options.
Linking your 5-year financial forecast to the negotiations process is essential for advancing overall programmatic initiatives, achieving key economic agreement terms for salaries and benefits, while faced with ongoing restricted revenues. 5Cast can effectively be utilized for collective bargaining and negotiations planning and scenario development; cost out summaries based on various proposals; data shaping of scenario results; and custom groupings of account detail bound to related bargained line items for cost analysis.
Easily publish information on your organization's website for transparency initiatives
Cloud-based access and optimized for tablets
Flexible charting and report writing; supports multiple models
Export results to Excel
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