Budgets overview
The B2B financial planning engine. Build master budgets, project your cash flow over time, and measure your results against reality.
Budget over time
Ditch the broken spreadsheets. Use Cord’s schedules to project Sales, Collections, Production, and Cash Flow across months. Evaluate your performance in real-time by connecting the budget against actual data from Stripe.
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In complex B2B sales, knowing how much a project costs you is only the first step. The real financial challenge for companies is understanding how those projects impact the entire organization over time. Will you have enough money in the bank account in April to make payroll?
Cord eliminates disconnected spreadsheets. Our budgeting module is not a simple quote calculator; it is a relational time-series engine (“Master Budgets”) that projects your cash flows into the future.
What you’ll learn in this section:
- Formulas and Time offsets: How to use our engine to calculate complex rules like “30% of March sales will be collected in April”.
- Financial waterfall: How to connect multiple schedules (Sales, Production, Cash) so that what you input in one automatically updates the other.
- Budget vs. Actual: How Cord connects with processed payments and actual closed sales to show you month-by-month if you met your budget or deviated.
A connected architecture (The Waterfall)
The greatest power of Cord’s scheduling engine is that it operates in a waterfall.
When you use our Complete Plan Wizard, the system automatically generates a Sales Schedule, which automatically feeds into a Collections Schedule (applying your 30 or 60-day credit policies), which finally injects the revenue directly into your Cash Flow Schedule. If you modify your November sales projection today, the entire cash impact will instantly be reflected in December.