Financial Forecast
What is it?
Financial forecast offers budget calculation for Tasks, Offtimes, Spikes, Events, and more. Input only essential financial information of employees e.g. salary, to get accurate calculations for specific periods in selected currency.
Unique insights and benefits
Financial forecast is made to be your helper in the budget calculations. It lets you have the information ahead of time and saves you valuable time by automating calculations.
Information needs to be inputted just once. The system will save all the information for later calculations.
You can use the financial forecast for pre-defined milestones and sprints or customize the periods. You can also get total cost calculations for specific sets of elements.
The financial forecast being a fully flexible feature allows you to have budgetary calculations for the whole group and per person. It even works on the granular level allowing the user to see the cost per element (this includes events, tasks, spikes, and offtimes).
The Financial forecast works with assignments and estimations. So in case of assigning a task to someone, the system automatically calculates everything, if the necessary information was already inputted into the system.
Examples
If you have a meeting with 10 of your workers and the hourly rate for each one of them is $20, an hour of meeting will cost you $200. During the meeting, you noticed that some participants were not active. This means that the meeting could cost you a lot less. Seeing the budget will allow you to control the finances better.
How to use
Financial admin can input information about the payment of each employee, no matter if it’s per hour, per day, per contract, etc. The information needs to be inputted just once, the system will memorize everything. You can access the Financial Forecast from the Holistic View.
The financial forecast is shown per board. If you want to have the financial forecast of the entire project, you should use the holistic board.
Records must start and end within the selected period to be included in the financial forecast.