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Why Vena

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Capabilities Reporting & Analytics Modeling Workflows Collaboration Scalability & Security Central Database Microsoft Excel Power BI Microsoft 365 Integrations Marketplace Developers

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Financial Planning & Analysis Budgeting & Forecasting CapEx Planning Revenue Planning Workforce Planning Allocations Scenario Planning Cash Flow Planning Sales Performance Management Sales Planning Incentive Compensation Management Financial Close Management Financial Consolidation Account Reconciliation Financial Reporting Management Reporting Profitability Analysis Variance Analysis Dashboard

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Free Operating Budget Template for Excel

Plan and compare your OpEx expenses with our free Operating Budget Template.

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Excelerate Your OpEx Planning

View trends, add comments to line items, leverage pre-built drivers and patterns and plan expenses by category across your planning year—all within Excel.

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This Operating Budget Template includes a dashboard to help you validate your plan, visualize spend by category, compare plan year versus current year and more.

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All of Vena’s Templates are formatted (but still customizable) using best practices so you can get started right away instead of spending hours designing your template.

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Test out this template in Vena Preview—a free, hands-on product preview. You’ll see how smart features like audit trails and ad-hoc reporting can help you get back lost time.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A. Yes. This operating statement template is totally free and yours to keep forever.
A. With this free operating budget template for Excel, you can plan operating expenses by category and use our dashboard to compare expenses across prior year, current year and plan year.
A. Since the Template was specifically designed for Excel, we don’t recommend that you open the Template in Google Sheets. The formulas and formatting may not work in Google Sheets.
A. Nope. All you need is Microsoft Excel.
A. We’re happy you asked. Vena is the only Native Excel Complete Planning platform. Over 1,200 organizations of all sizes power their Plan To Grow™ with Vena.

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