An intelligent, unified approach to achieving financial insights
Finance professionals deal with reporting and analysis daily. From standard reports to variance reports and ad hoc reports. With Finance departments under increasing pressure to provide detailed business insights for strategic decision-making, there is no room for disjointed approaches to planning. Plans, budgets, and forecasts need to reflect the reality of today’s uncertain landscape. Using stale data risks missed targets and misallocated funds.
Verostone provides organisations with tools to quickly compare data at different levels of detail for analysis. Discrepancies can be quickly identified to react promptly. Our partner solutions also offer seamless integration with Excel to work directly where the data and information are needed.
Verostone’s Budgeting and Forecasting modules make it easy to gather the necessary data, make insightful decisions, and act without time-consuming manual processes. Our solutions support the entire budgeting, planning, and forecasting process, overcoming the challenges associated with disparate spreadsheets to deliver a truly intelligent approach.
Forecasting is an important business tool that informs decision-making
Annual plans start to go stale on day one, unable to account for ongoing market volatility and shifting trends. Static information puts your business at risk when you make decisions without adjusting for today’s new insights or reframing the periods ahead. Forecasting is an important business tool that helps you to be aware of potential future developments and trends.
Rolling forecasts are used periodically throughout the fiscal year and are useful as a management tool that allows you to look beyond the current fiscal year by continually supplementing and adjusting plans.
A detailed Rolling Forecast allows your organisation to:
Verostone’s Rolling Forecast modules offers your organisation instant access to rolling forecasts, without the burden on time and resources. With more time on your hands, you’ll be able to focus on analysing the drivers behind your revenue.
Streamlining complex calculations is key to reducing errors
Capital investments are typically the highest-impact expenditures a company implements. A well-executed capital investment signals fiscal health, while an expenditure with limited analysis indicates reckless behaviour and potentially poorly managed debt.
Planning capital expenses is a crucial function for finance organisations. Stakeholders need visibility and control over the lifecycle of assets to quantify and plan impacts on financial health. However, a central challenge in administering capital expenses is calculating and distributing depreciation of assets to cost centre and P&L plans, while at the same time quantifying future values based on the lifetime of an asset.
The Verostone Capital Expenses (CapEx) modules provide comprehensive accountability of asset measures into cost centres, P&L, and balance sheets – supporting decisions and analysis of an organisation’s highest-impact expenses.
With our CapEx Modules, your organisation will have the ability to create a comprehensive register of assets, analyse the accompanied depreciation of each asset listed and plan for the cash flow impact of replacing assets.
Utilising pre-built logic to facilitate calculating depreciation and amortisation of existing assets, Verostone’s partner solutions provide the asset visibility your organisation needs, without the stress.
Create revenue plans that predict profitability and foster growth
Revenue planning is fundamental to successful business operations, but for many organisations it’s a challenge to gain visibility into all the necessary data.
To make smart revenue planning decisions, your finance team relies on data from numerous sources. EPM software gives you the power and flexibility to play around during the revenue planning process to see how the changes you might make could affect your bottom line. It also gives you the ability to be more accurate, because unlike cumbersome and unwieldy spreadsheets, EPM software is smart and easy to use.
Verostone’s revenue planning modules automatically aggregates data so you can detect issues early, hit your deadlines and execute with confidence. Gain greater visibility into sales team productivity, conversion forecasts and campaign ROI so your team can set realistic goals and deliver predictable results.
Spot trends, issues and opportunities for long-term success
Variance analysis is an important part of an organisation’s information system and aids efficient budgeting activity for an organisation. Effective variance analysis can help a company spot trends, issues, opportunities, and threats to short-term or long-term success.
Verostone’s partners provide analysis software that automates the calculation and identification of account balance and activity fluctuations to enable continuous monitoring for risk, ensure the effective and timely execution of critical management review controls, and support agile decision-making. Our Variance Analysis modules automatically consolidate your spreadsheets, so you don’t have to manually aggregate data.
Whether you need to perform actual vs budget or actual vs forecast analysis, our software solutions have you covered.
Assess the profitability of your business activities in real-time
Profitability analysis is highly valuable to strategic and operational decision-making but is typically a time-consuming process requiring significant time and effort to conduct. By unifying information from sources business wide, Verostone’s partner solutions create complete transparency over the profitability of every business activity in real time, supporting faster decisions and the easy allocation of costs, profits, and capital.
Simplify your cost allocation processes with software
Over 77% of high performing businesses look to streamline their Cost Allocation processes by using software. With cost allocation software, you identify, aggregate, and assign different costs to different cost objects. This cost object can best be explained as a single activity or item for which you would want to measure the costs. Our cost allocation solutions provide an efficient way to manage and reduce efforts from the finance team by up to 80% and shortens processing of expense allocations by up to 50%.
Using our expense allocation software simplifies your finance processes and allows your team to focus on improvements rather than simply the task at hand.
Create high-level financial plans that flex and adapt in real time
Covering budgeting, cost management, planning, analysis, and reporting, Verostone’s solutions deliver a joined-up picture of your current performance, and the risks and opportunities ahead.
With Verostone’s Strategic Planning, you can create multi-year financial plans that are fully integrated with operational budgets. For performance monitoring and risk management, Verostone equips you to meet the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Our acclaimed strategic planning approach helps you define the direction of travel for the entire business. Through actionable, long-range plans coupled with an organisation-specific scorecard system, you can develop and track KPIs, create and hone enterprise initiatives, and monitor your company’s performance in real-time.
Model multiple future scenarios to successfully navigate change
For any business, change is a fact of life, but all too often, technical limitations force teams to rely on the prevailing scenario as the one-and-only backdrop to their budgets and forecasts.
Verostone helps you eliminate the risks of bias and false assumption. Verostone’s Scenario Planning functionality lets you ask ‘what-if’ and gives you answers you can trust. You can apply multiple variables with ease to test the impact of a vast range of market and organisational changes. Equipped with this, you can present reliable, updated forecasts to executive decision-makers, on-demand.
Scenario planning is a vital tool for assessing the impact of critical uncertainties, new organisational initiatives and fresh market opportunities.
Make capital investments with confidence, track performance and monitor returns
Verostone’s Capital Planning and Tracking solution delivers the insight you need to deploy capital with confidence. We understand the questions you need ask: Does this project represent the best use of our resources? How will the additional outlay affect cash flow? Will the long-term profit justify the short-term costs?
The ability to answer these questions is crucial for your long-term financial strategy. By bringing forecasting, capital planning and tracking together, Verostone’s solutions empower you to make truly data-driven decisions, supported by numbers you can trust.
Modernise your financial processes for improved agility
If you’re planning to increase your organisation’s agility, you can’t avoid modernising your financial processes. Agile Financial Planning addresses the same issues as traditional financial planning, but the difference lies in how the advisor is positioned and how planning and advice are delivered. While traditional financial planning focuses on creating a comprehensive plan in a short period of time, Agile Financial Planning approaches it from an ongoing project management perspective.
The shift towards agile financial planning is significant and impacts the entire company. Therefore, good preparation is incredibly important for the success of this endeavour, and this is where Verostone can help.
Verostone’s partner solutions make it easy to create beautiful reports so you can discover the real-time insights that guide your journey to growth. We help your team understand your business’s past, present and future so you can move forward with your shared vision. Whether you’re planning for growth, planning for change, or planning for business as usual, plan with agility.
Gain full, real-time visibility of your cash flow for smarter decision making
With Verostone’s Income Modelling solutions, your finance team can confidently, quickly, and effectively adapt to uncertain market conditions and their potential impacts on revenue. Leverage real-time data to acquire insights, accelerate informed decisions, and advance plans.
Accurately and efficiently model different scenarios and re-shape financial plans and budgets to boost your performance.
Gain a holistic view of your organisational expenses
With Verostone’s Expense Planning solutions, your finance team can easily model the impacts of volume, rate, and efficiency assumptions across your expense plans with multiple versions or scenarios.
Verostone’s agile, intuitive software for budget development and tracking streamlines and integrates the process of modelling net revenue with the overall expense planning process. Global drivers are used to forecast key departmental statistics.
Gain better control of your organisational expenses through:
Combine your data to more effectively forecast and plan staffing decisions
Verostone’s Staff Planning solutions help you handle uncertainty, manage change, and avoid unexpected costs, by enabling you to forecast those vital implications of future staffing decisions.
Plan for salary and benefit changes by aligning human resources data with assumptions about future increases and budget. Forecast based on positions or individual employees, factoring in various drivers that impact your staffing.
Improve your entire budgeting process by:
Take a holistic view of balance sheets and cash flow
A changing approach to risk has prompted many progressive businesses to move away from silo-driven outlooks across income, assets, cash sources and operating costs. Efficient management is paramount for securing the long-term sustainability of any business and strengthening your organisation against financial risk. This means that it is important to gain full visibility of your cash flow to inform smarter financial decisions.
Plus, with current financial standards demanding that balance sheets reflect the potential of company assets, effective management can also generate efficiencies and reveal unrealised commercial value in underutilised assets. With our modular solutions, you will be able to:
Put your cash flow to work
Verostone’s partner solutions provides cash flow planning software that allows you to create driver-based models you can run monthly, weekly or daily. This allows you to “put your cash to work”.
To optimise cash flow for your business, you need clarity
Cash flow is the most critical aspect for protecting and growing your business, especially now. Ambiguous projections and an outdated, inaccurate view of your cash hinder your ability to provide clarity to the business. But pulling different levers to understand their impacts on cash should not be a manual, time-consuming process.
With Verostone, your organisation will have the ability to optimise cash, shore up your capital position, and extend your runway to build business resilience. From a 13-week cash flow, to planning long term organic and inorganic growth, our partner solutions provide driver-based cash flow forecasting and scenario analysis to fit your requirements.
Proactively prioritise and manage your company’s future
An Annual Operating Plan (AOP), or operation plan will determine the financial, physical, and human resources goals that must be met over the short term. Annual operating plans can help idnetify the answers to key operational questions, such as:
In essence, it’s a roadmap for operating your organisation.
Creating a company’s AOP is like having a New Year’s Resolution, but it should be made with a set path to plan for priorities and manage the company’s future proactively. It’s where you make decisions that align the company’s overall strategy with business execution.
With Verostone’s partner solutions, your organisation can easily create and navigate your AOP, using pre-built templates that cover every aspect of your business. Built-in financial intelligence then automatically stores, categorises, and presents your data based on accounting properties.
In addition, our consultants will make your business plan development a priority, ensuring that your annual operating plan is set up for a victory. You will rest easy knowing that your goals, and the measures to support these goals, are put it in place.
Create bespoke reports drawing on live financial data
Transform your financial data into insights that empower intelligent decisions with Verostone’s Reporting and Analytics solutions. Analyse and visualise financial and operational data to identify and highlight trends, variances, and improvement opportunities.
While some performance management tools simply offer reports, we offer timely data and robust capabilities, to bring your decision-makers the answers they need.
Monitor even the most granular financial performance metrics
The goal of financial management analytics is to keep track of the day-to-day performance of the business, by providing on-the-go reports and insights that can quickly be fed back in to your wider team to adjust course.
Long-term goals are no longer enough, and the smartest businesses recognise that the ability to make incremental changes, based on weekly or even daily insight, will compound to significant competitive advantage over time. Verostone can help you:
Make strategic decisions that align with your business objectives
The goal of management reports is to arm management, decision makers, and the c-suite with all the information they need to make strategic business decisions. The key benefit of frequent management reports is the ability to make the most current data available to decision-makers, anytime, anywhere. This will help drive the company forward, especially during uncertain times.
The greatest challenge for creating management reports is finding the time to do so. Management reports are excellent for helping management better understand the numbers but they are also frequently time-intensive, rely heavily on gathering together information from various departments and require accurate data inputs.
An effective management reporting tool goes way beyond just pulling up information. It produces detailed, accurate and real-time reports, so that the management team can effectively implement the solutions, which are in alignment with the business objectives.
With Verostone’s partner solutions, creating management reports is quick and easy. Data gathering and consolidation is done automatically, and all updates are instantly visible and accounted for.
Measure your core activities through insights that are actionable
Operational reporting provides a structural and tactical view of an organisation. It details the daily aspects of operations, focusing on delivering BI insights that are immediately actionable.
Nearly every business and its associated departments require data-driven operational reports and dashboards to measure business progress, track accomplishments, improve operational efficiencies, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Operational reporting can aid businesses in measuring various key characteristics of their core activities to support and inform incremental improvements. It could help in multiple areas, such as:
Most organisations make data-driven decisions. But issues arise when the data is not accurate, inaccessible, or stored in such a way that makes it difficult for the average employee to analyse it. Verostone provides access to Operational Reporting modules that deliver the powerful operational reports that help your organisation understand what is, and isn’t working in real-time.
Gain insight into your company’s planning effectiveness
A variance analysis report is used to measure actual performance against your budgeted or planned performance.
From a finance perspective, it’s essentially a way to measure your organisation’s planning effectiveness. Variance analysis within your business has a variety of functions; it can be a signal that something went wrong along the way and you have not been collaborating with your team; are using the wrong tools; or have ineffective processes.
Verostone provides comprehensive variance analysis reporting modules, which enable your organisation to:
Make better business decisions with timely, accurate cost information
Verostone’s software enables you to gain a clearer understanding your business costs, helping you identify opportunities to manage them more effectively.
Our software provides an accurate, comprehensive view of performance across cost, quality, and service measures. Verostone’s solutions support advanced costing methodologies and balances detail with accuracy, flexibility, efficiency and sophistication.
Timely and accurate visibility into financial data is vitally important to drive the right decisions for your business. Our tools empower finance leadership teams to work smarter, with insights across cost and quality throughout your organisation.
Understand how each segment of your business impacts your profits
Verostone gives finance teams a complete framework for measuring margin ratios, acquisition costs, return on investment and all other key enterprise profitability metrics. Through robust reporting capabilities, executives can quickly and easily understand the contribution of each segment to the organisation’s overall profits.
Our Profitability and Cost Management solution helps you avoid false assumptions based on top-level revenue figures. These tools equip you to make better decisions on spend allocation, product-mix choices, marketing decisions and more.
Protect your business and your customers
Regulatory compliance and reporting needs to be viewed as a natural extension of the governance duties shouldered by top management and corporate boards.
Regulatory compliance reporting is very important to document your compliance to regulations and protect your business from serious issues. Some of the key reasons you should have a good reporting system are:
Eliminate the complexities and manual errors associated with regulatory reporting. With Verostone’s partner solutions, we will save you time and simplify your regulatory compliance processes. Our intuitive solutions allow your organisation to:
Harness automation workflows to accelerate your close process
Verostone’s Financial Close solutions take the pain out of the close process, by enabling you to automate the tasks that can be automated, allowing your team to focus on higher level troubleshooting.
From local close through to group consolidation and reporting, Verostone’s solutions can handle enterprise-level complexity, bringing together data from across your business to create a unified reconciliation process.
Take control of your consolidation process
Our consolidation software gives you the power to streamline your complex financial consolidation processes, including partial ownership, intercompany eliminations, multiple currencies and alternate reporting roll-ups, so that you can close your books on time and produce financial statements you can trust.
Our financial consolidation software comes packed with features designed to help you work smarter, improve transparency, boost collaboration, and produce more accurate financial reports.
Automated reconciliation starts with integrations into your source systems
Our pre-configured solutions include templates, best practices, and smart account reconciliation tools to help significantly reduce the time you spend on your balance sheet reconciliation.
Verostone software solutions effortlessly integrate your financial systems data and automatically updates your templates with the latest actuals so that you can not only automate your reconciliations, but also provide more accurate financial reports to your team and ensure easy and efficient auditability down the line.
Simplify complex allocation processes, improve data transparency and shorten your budget cycle
Verostone Allocations enables organisations to develop allocations of revenue and expenses in support of the annual budgeting process. It enables organisations to analyse margins at a granular level. Centrally stored data makes reporting and analysis easy, with the ability to roll data over from one year to the next.
Verostone Allocations helps to improve data transparency and integrity, and financial accountability across your organisation. The ability to integrate data directly into your budgeting process means that your budget cycle is shortened, and time-consuming manual data processes are minimised.
Create a unified plan by bringing together data across sales, operations and supply chain
Verostone’s Sales and Operational Planning solutions enable you to monitor signals across all your business units in real time, allowing you to build an integrated plan that ensures all business functions are closely coordinated.
Model the impact of various business changes, from rebalancing your inventory or workforce, working with a new supplier or making supply chain adjustments, taking the risk out of decision-making.
Integrate planning across all sales channels and stores
Verostone’s Retail Logistics solutions enable you to centralise and take full control of your sales and distribution planning, across category management, channels and stores. With merchandise financial planning, line planning, product lifecycle management and retail analytics, Verostone’s solutions bring disparate data sources together into a single source of truth for your business.
Our software allows you to model new channels, stores and categories, track actual sales against plans and targets, all through a fully configurable dashboard that allows you to compare across plans, year-on-year performance and monthly actuals.
Inform customer-related decisions that maximise life-time value
Verostone’s Customer Profitability Analysis solutions enable you to gain a true understanding of the costs of each customer segment, and determine profitability by individual account, and by market segments and sectors.
Aggregate data by size of customer, size of order, service complexity, location and other factors to gain detailed insight into where to focus your efforts. Our software helps you drive profitability in your organisation by providing visibility of the key trends:
Adminster incentive plans that support your organisational objectives
Verostone enables you to manage and administer incentive plans to improve financial performance, empowering your people to help achieve organisational objectives.
Verostone gives you the ability to process numerous plans for hundreds or thousands of employees quickly and efficiently. Clarity of plan metrics and transparency of plan calculations result in less time reconciling the data, letting your people spend more time on the work that matters.
Uncover the most lucrative opportunities for your organisation
Verostone gives finance teams a complete framework for measuring margin ratios, acquisition costs, return on investment and all other key enterprise profitability metrics. Through robust reporting capabilities, executives can quickly and easily understand the contribution of each segment to the organisation’s overall profits.
Our comprehensive Profitability and Cost Management solution helps you avoid false assumptions based on top-level revenue figures. Your organisation will be better equipped to make decisions on spend allocation, product-mix choices, marketing decisions and more.
Manage your workforce for success
Workforce planning is about making sure the right people are at the right job and at the right time. Your workforce is both your organisation’s greatest strength and largest single cost. It can be challenging to rise above the slow, manual, and disconnected processes that strategically separate HR and Finance teams. Collaborating with the business is crucial to managing talent gaps and leaders are counting on you to help them make the right decisions.
Verostone’s workforce planning software is a tool that is designed to perform this process more effectively and in less time. Verostone software leverages an Excel interface and combines it with advanced modelling capabilities, data integrations and dashboards to help with your headcount planning processes.
Forecast and report labour expenses, manage employee transfers and cost allocations, while also automating variance analysis.
Plan, monitor and report on grant funding and spending
In this increasingly uncertain funding environment, your institution needs to access timely and accurate data on your grants and awards. Verostone’s Grants Planning solution helps you develop an award modelling application, provides an insight on your spending plans, and enables you to track against actual activity over the project’s lifespan.
Providing universities with a complete forecast and analysis solution, improving transparency and reducing overheads.
Use it to help you:
Mitigate risk by assessing the impact of future scenarios on tuition fee income
With Verostone’s powerful, easy-to-use Tuition Fee Planning solution, create strategies and new opportunities by assessing the potential impact of variable and critical uncertainties.
Model the impact of tuition revenue on budgets and forecasts. Compare different courses of decision-making and initiatives to accurately project tuition revenue by:
Bring transparency and control to your financial commitments
Embrace robust reporting to understand the current and future financial health of your university. Ensure that commitments are accurately forecasted and deliver against budget.
Tracking all your financial commitments against budgets, with automated collection and evaluation of data across your organisation. Verostone’s HE Commitment Planning solution empowers you to:
Align your employee targets with financials to generate profitable growth
Verostone enables you to manage and administer incentive plans to improve financial performance, empowering your people to help achieve organisational objectives.
Verostone gives you the ability to process numerous plans for hundreds or thousands of employees quickly and efficiently. Clarity of plan metrics and transparency of plan calculations result in less time reconciling the data, letting your people spend more time on the work that matters.
Gain greater visibility over the specific business areas that drive value
Verostone FTP and Profitability solutions provide enhanced visibility into the customers, segments, branches and products that drive the greatest value for your business. Our software calculates FTP, expense allocations, and capital allocations with transparent measurement processes.
Assign highly accurate FTP rates based on projected cash flows and bring together data visualisation, incremental analysis, and segmentation to maximise value from funds transfer pricing investments.
Evaluate performance at all levels of your healthcare organisation
Verostone’s clinical performance solution enables you to improve your quality of care and tie those improvements to cost savings. By aggregating disparate sources of data, Verostone’s solution lets you drill down into capabilities from the system to the patient level, to identify best practice, quantify preventable complications, readmissions and safety events, and discover ways to rectify unintended clinical variation.
Quickly identify areas for improvement, while providing access to utilisation, quality, patient satisfaction and cost data, alongside internal and external benchmarks. Target undesirable variation in care to eliminate or decrease performance gaps.
We provide full engagement with your practitioners, with a streamlined, electronic PPE reporting system and automated workflow process. With this comprehensive view of practitioner performance and the ability to engage your staff in the process, your organisation can identify areas of greatest opportunity and act on improvement initiatives.
Verostone redefines what to expect from a financial performance management solution, ensuring complete peace of mind. We have proven industry expertise in helping organisations transform their business through improved financial performance.
Verostone’s planning solutions are flexible enough to meet a range of industry-specific needs, regulatory requirements, and organisational preferences. If you’re looking for solutions related to long-range planning, budgeting, cost accounting, profitability analysis and reporting, our in-house domain experts ensure you receive the best possible service available anywhere in the market.
For successful implementation, people are just as important as tech: something that Verostone knows better than most. This is why we only hire consultants with applicable industry experience with core finance and technology backgrounds. Our software implementation consultants provide strategic guidance and customised solutions that work effectively, can scale with your company and deploy easily across the entire organisation.
To get the most out of your FP&A investment, the right technology is important. But so too is having the right people behind the tech. Consistently rated as “excellent” in satisfaction surveys, Verostone’s responsiveness to customer needs is one of the main reasons why we are ranked so highly by analysts such as Gartner and BPM Partners.