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Why Vena

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Solutions

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

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Free Budget vs. Actual Excel Template

Calculate and view variance across your accounts with our free Budget vs. Actual Excel Template.

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Detailed and Automated Reporting

With our Budget vs. Actual Report, you can input your monthly actual and plan data for each account to automatically calculate budget vs. actual variance analysis.

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Visualize Your Variances

Easily view individual account and overall revenue, gross margin and expense variances with visual trendlines and color-coded percentages.

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Designed and Formatted With Best Practices

All of our Templates are formatted (but still customizable) using best practices so you can start analyzing your variances right away instead of spending hours on template design.

Frequently Asked Questions

A. Yes. This Budget vs. Actual Excel Template is free and yours to keep forever.
A. With this free Budget vs. Actual Report, you can calculate and visualize variance across different timeframes and accounts.
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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OpEx Budget Template

Plan operating expenses by category and use our dashboard to compare expenses across prior year, current year and plan year.

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What-If Analysis Template

Get started with a free what-if analysis template. Model monthly forecasting scenarios and view variances between forecasted inputs and scenario models.

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Revenue Projection Template

Plan revenue, quantity of units sold and cost of sales for all of your products with this Revenue Projection Template.

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