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Part 9: Working plan

This is the ninth part of the getting started process. It covers creating a working plan including stock reconciliation and dairy forecaster

Updated over a week ago

At Farm Focus, planning and budgeting are made simple. The Working plan is your main budget and as the year progresses the actuals sit on top of the planned items.

It consists of three elements:

Cashflow: track dollar values

Livestock Grid: monitors stock quantities

Dairy Forecaster: monitors this season's milk production.

Once you've created your Working plan for the upcoming year, we recommend you save a baseline version. The read-only copy serves as a reference point throughout the year, allowing you to track deviations and gauge performance accurately. You can use the baseline plan to generate insightful reports, such as Variance or Year-to-Date (YTD) comparisons.

Next year you can use your actuals from last year as a guide to creating your new Working plan.

Budget / Cashflow

Building your cashflow.

Livestock Grid or Livestock Reconciliation

Building your livestock grid.

Dairy Forecaster

Building your dairy forecaster.

Up next is revising your Budget. To skip ahead, view all our training videos here.

For more detailed information download our workbook Planning & Reporting attached or watch our in-depth webinars below.

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