Budgeting & Planning

Ease and insight for accurate financial intelligence

Budgeting and planning have long been resource intensive areas fraught with inefficiency and lack of transparency. Recent studies on the public and private sector indicate that inefficient budgeting consumes 20 to 30 percent of senior management and financial managers’ time.

Problems with data and lack of quality tools may result in up to 80% of financial analysts’ time being spent on data churn, leaving little opportunity for analysis and forecasting. Ultimately, organizations that are able to streamline their budgeting and planning processes will be able to spend more time gaining insight and improvements from quality financial information.

SAS Financial Management is a comprehensive solution for enterprise planning, budgeting, consolidation, and reporting. The solution provides organizations with financial transparency, on-demand consolidation, and performance-based budgeting capabilities. Users are able to increase the ease, accuracy, and efficiency of the financial management process, while retaining the comfort and familiarity of Excel.