Blog by Stephanie

Written by the UK distributors of Forecast 5, Kipps Business Reporting.

We've made it easier for you to organise your forecasts with tags!

Use tags to distinguish forecasts by area, version, state or however suits you!

Written to enable you (or us!) to create the reports you need in your preferred report writing tool.

While Forecast 5 comes with many built-in reports and the ability drop them into excel using One Touch Reporting,

we have designed the Report Views to allow your raw forecast data to be extracted ...

After discussions with construction businesses using Forecast 5, 

we have introduced a new derivation under Accrued/Prepaid cost and sales records for Contract Retention 

where your customer or supplier may retain a portion of the invoice until a job has been completed.

Security

The Admin Pack was developed for multi-user clients to provide security locks on sensitive forecasts. 

With the Admin Pack, you can split users into groups and then assign forecasts to specific groups to ensure only those you want
can see particular forecasts, can. 

Status Entry

The a...

Forecast 5's innovative new feature, One Touch Reporting, allows you to design and customise a report pack to be readily available for all your budgets, reducing time spent on your budgeting process. 

- Fine-tune receipts and payments on a day by day basis.

- Determine your payment/receipt frequencies, e.g. Weekly, Monthly, etc.

- Determine your payment/receipt days, e.g. 1st January or 5th January, etc. 

Written by Geof Nightingale

Who would ever have dreamt, as they sat down less than four months ago to pen their new year’s resolutions of the economic destruction we have seen, that New Zealand – and most of the world - would be in lockdown and that ghoulish details of infection rates and mortality worldwide would lead the dai...