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We know that not all crop/arable seasons fit in the same box - in fact, they can span multiple years, or run less than a year. With our new crop/arable tracker, you have the flexibility to configure your season start dates and lengths as you wish, simplifying the planning experience across seasons and financial periods.

Whilst you can configure your crop season start and end dates to be of any length, you can still work against a single, ongoing financial plan - without losing the functionality of a locked and approved budget. This is done so through the Rolling Plan functionality in Figured.

Why did we build this?

We know that not everyone works on a 12 month cycle, so there was no need to restrict your budgets to a fixed 12 months. With the Rolling Plan, you can get started on financial planning straight away, without the need to spend your valuable time on building the initial budget or opening position at the start of each budget year. You just need to add to your existing plan.

You can also get reports out of Figured in a faster, simpler and more flexible way, and you can compare your actuals to your Snapshot. The reports are more powerful, allowing for comparative reporting and more valuable conversations between the entire farming team. 

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How does the Rolling Plan work?

Using our Planning Grid and trackers, you can create your financial plan with as much or as little detail as you like, and plan out across any period of time. Once you’re happy with the plan, simply take a Snapshot of your work to turn this into your Annual Plan.

As things change throughout the year, you may need to reforecast. Simply rework the plan in the Planning Grid and your trackers, and save it as a new Snapshot. With the ability to create multiple Snapshots, you can reforecast regularly and easily, whilst keeping a record of changes to keep everyone in the farming team in the loop. You can capture changes as and when they happen, making it easy to review the plan and keep a record of the year’s progress. 

Snapshots are uneditable and unaffected by changes to the farm, meaning that you have a point in time access to a farm’s data, that can be used for comparative reporting. This way, you only need to maintain a single financial plan and you’ll always be able to compare that to what your reports looked like when you took the Snapshot.

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