First of all, we wish you a Happy New Year and hope that you had a good start.
We herewith inform you that access to relevant budget input-reports in Professional Planner for Sales, P&L and FTEs is now granted. Also according budget fx rates are available which correspond to the final average rates of December 2015.
In general, please enter your figures as approved at the board meeting. The defined sales increase is therefore based on your December figures and no longer on the forecast.
Kindly follow described approach in order to avoid any misunderstandings:
• No budget-inputs for balance sheet, order intake, backlog and investments
• Each month = 1/12 year. No seasonality – neither in sales nor in costs.
• Enter always positive figures besides sales deductions and – for sub-groups also intercompany sales.
• By entering data in column “2016” a monthly spread is done automatically. Do not use this function for FTE planning.
• Do monthly entries for employees. Employees are FTEs, not headcounts.
• Key ‘F5’ to refresh the report whilst doing your entries
→ Set reporting status to “completed” on each month when done
→ Finalization of data entry not later than January 22th.