S50F and Excel

Many people choose a dedicated forecasting package such as S50F in order to move away from Excel, so why is it important that S50F can link to Excel?

An Excel user may be comfortable maintaining a sales forecast sheet while finding it time-consuming and complex to try and build a balanced cash forecast and balance sheet in a spreadsheet. ‘Hot Linking’ a sales forecast in Excel to S50F can be the answer. While the sales forecast – which may need frequent updating, or sharing amongst staff – can be maintained in a spreadsheet, overhead forecasts, balance sheet and cash flow can be handled entirely within S50F.

When helping clients to set-up a spreadsheet linked to S50F, we can ensure the spreadsheet contains simple ‘lock-down’ and integrity controls to ensure that Excel and S50F work well alongside each other.