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TopDown's consultants have decades of combined experience implementing financial and performance management solutions. We help you utilize OutlookSoft to meet a wide variety of application needs:

Strategic Planning

A vital component of your company's success is the creation and execution of actionable plans that support your strategic goals and drive key business decisions. TopDown helps you take best advantage of OutlookSoft's strategic planning capabilities including modeling, simulation, and what-if analysis to meet your financial and operational planning needs.

TopDown's expertise and best practices optimize your strategic planning processes. You will gain improvements by integrating your longer-term strategic planning process into your regular budgeting, forecasting, and reporting cycles. We help you develop multi-dimensional models including "what-if?" and multi-scenario analysis that enable you to measure and assess future outcomes.

Budgeting

OutlookSoft supports your top-down and bottom-up corporate budgeting processes through a single, centralized database. Utilizing a consistent version of the facts ensures the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of your results.

TopDown's experience in designing and deploying enterprise-wide budgeting and planning solutions delivers a smooth implementation. Our approach ensures that your key budgetary stakeholders have immediate, easy access to the most current data and the ability to align with your corporate goals and objectives.

Our expertise and best practices optimize your budgeting processes. We help you gain improvements using both top-down and bottom-up budgeting models to create a collaborative environment and ensure enterprise-wide participation.

Forecasting

OutlookSoft's single unified database simplifies the integration of your forecasting process into your overall budgeting, planning, reporting, and analysis processes. Ensuring the accuracy of your forecasts, the relevance of your assumptions, and the measurement of your results is key to your BPM success.

TopDown's expertise in collaborative forecasting helps you improve the predictability of your business performance. Simplifying your process allows you to develop more accurate and frequent forecasts, and increases user participation and accountability.

Our expertise and best practices optimize your forecasting processes. We help you gain improvements by implementing rolling forecasts for any time period you choose, providing better visibility into trends and other factors such as seasonality that can impact your plans and budgets.Creating centralized templates helps you clearly communicate corporate goals and objectives and achieve an integrated enterprise-wide forecasting process.

Consolidation

OutlookSoft's statutory consolidation capabilities ensure a smooth and timely close with out-of-the-box features including intercompany eliminations, currency conversion, multi-tier allocations, journals, and audit trail reporting.

Today's regulations make it imperative for companies to follow proper controls and best practices. TopDown's consultants are finance experts who understand all aspects of accounting and the financial consolidation process. Our implementation approach ensures integration of all your financial reporting processes.

Our expertise and best practices optimize your consolidation processes. We help you gain improvements by automating your intercompany eliminations, simplifying management of multiple currencies, providing better visibility into your financial results, and speeding your close process.

Reporting and Analysis

TopDown helps you implement a completely integrated reporting and analysis solution to meet the wide range of your information demands. We address your need for standard financial and operational reporting, as well as for "slice & dice" analysis on an ad-hoc basis.

Our expertise and best practices optimize your reporting and analysis processes. You will gain improvements by creating specialized reports to highlight trends and variances, as well as performance reports with alerts and exceptions. We also help you develop standard and customizable report templates that allow your users to generate their own reports. Our approach focuses on creating consistency for your data, hierarchies, and calculations so you can be confident in your results no matter what combination of report or analysis tools you elect to use.

Predictive Analytics

TopDown helps you automate the reporting, analysis, and prediction of your financial and operational performance. Our approach proactively delivers critical information you can use to make better, more informed business decisions.

Predictive analytics automates what is typically a manual, time-consuming, and reactive analysis process. You gain valuable time by shortening the gaps between the standard steps of: 1) Variance reporting (what happened), 2) Variance analysis (why it happened), and finally 3) Action for proceeding.

Our expertise and best practices optimize your predictive processes. We help you gain improvements by analyzing and reporting on probable risks and impacts, forecasting performance deviations, and using advanced statistical techniques to correlate changes in your key performance indicators (KPIs).

Scorecarding and Dashboarding

OutlookSoft allows you to track, manage and measure your company performance by linking your strategic goals and objectives to focused and meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs). TopDown's expertise and best practices optimize your scorecarding and dashboarding processes. We help you gain improvements by utilizing graphical dashboards to provide real-time, accessible performance measurement, analysis, and reporting.

TopDown's consultants work with you to identify the most important drivers and metrics for your business. Incorporating your KPIs into your overall planning, forecasting, and reporting processes provides standards-based measurement that can be applied throughout your entire organization. Our approach delivers easy-to-use visual reports and dashboards to further enhance your ability to make the best decisions possible.


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