Say hello to divisional budgets in Fathom; the ultimate tool to ensure your divisions are on track.
Now you can easily gain insights into the performance against budget of the divisions, departments, locations, profit centres, cost centres, business units or other segments within your business.
This new feature is currently available for Xero and QuickBooks Online companies, and offers a comprehensive solution to import, track and compare divisional budgets.
Specifically, the new divisional budget features enable you to:
See Divisional Budgets in action by watching the overview video below.
Read on to see what the key features and benefits could mean for you, your business or your clients.
Go deep, go wide—compare divisional actuals to budgets in reports, side-by-side. This offers a quick way to identify discrepancies, so you can seamlessly begin planning to rectify. You can also use divisional budget data in tracking the performance of KPIs, making it easier to uncover insights.
The Breakdown chart helps you analyse the performance of your divisions, and to track actuals against budgets.
Great Scott! You can now import divisional budgets for forward projections and planning, to ensure all sections of your business are prepared for the road ahead (no DeLoreans required).
If you’re using Xero, the ability to import budgets for each tracking category means that you can now also aggregate those divisional budgets to create an overall company budget.
For QuickBooks Online users, when you import an overall budget with subdivisions, the budget data will be available to report on in Fathom at a divisional level. In addition, you can now import budgets for future financial years.
Fathom's divisional budget import is a game changer for Xero budgeting workflows. Fathom imports your tracking category budgets and aggregates them into one overall budget which can be exported to Excel. We've done the heavy lifting by ensuring that the file can then be easily imported back into Xero for quick reconciliation. No sweat!
To help make the complex simple, instead of choosing the budget for a single financial year, we’ve enabled you to import budgets for multiple financial years from QuickBooks Online into a single Fathom company. Choose what you need, when you need it.
With this update, QuickBooks Online users can now import entire hierarchical structures and have finances and budgets.
This feature ensures an easier workflow and accurate budgeting for businesses with complex financial structures.
If you’re looking to gain insights into performance and make data-driven decisions—you guessed it—you can use your existing formula KPIs to track the performance of your divisions against their budgets.
You run a company operating a chain of hardware stores. You use Xero, where you have set up tracking categories for store locations. You opened a store at the beginning of the financial year in a new location across town. You’ve budgeted for the new store to perform such that it will break even after one year and start turning a profit the following year.
At the start of the year, you created some management reports in Fathom which included the budget for the new location.
Now, twelve months later, you’re looking at your financial results compared to the original budget. It’s easy to see that you’ve exceeded your revenue projections—the new store has broken into profitability four months ahead of schedule! With this intel, you’ve decided to direct the early profits back into some required maintenance of your original site earlier than expected, improving the in-store experience for employees and customers.
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