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Cash Flow Forecasting

Accurately forecasting cash flow drives better financial decisions: reduce unnecessary cash buffers, boost investments, and increase investment income—all while meeting liquidity needs. The biggest hurdle? Finding time for this daily.

We've built an extension that makes daily forecasting effortless:

What you get:

  • Automatic calculation of historical cash inflows, outflows, and ending balances.
  • Leverage of budgeted/projected flows to auto-forecast future cash positions.
  • Intuitive visualizations, graphs, and KPIs to monitor and manage liquidity.
  • Seamless integration with your ERP, budget software, and other source systems.
  • Full use of Workiva's collaboration tools for multi-user review and approvals.
  •  Automatic banking integration to download your daily bank statements.
  •  Highly configurable and adaptable to meet your preferred presentation style.  

What you do:

  • Set up secure integrations with your systems. 
  • Configure setting and preferred presentation style.

The Result:

  • Always-current, automatically generated cash flow forecasts for full transparency into current and projected positions. 
  • Greater confidence to reduce cash buffers and reallocate the surplus to increase investment income. 

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Cash flow Forecasting Extension Version 2025. Q4 Now Available 

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What's New

  • Multi-Year Adjustments
    • Apply adjustments to multiple years efficiently.

  • Rounding Automation
    • New and improved rounding functionality.

  • Connections - Automatically refresh all connections on demand or on a schedule.
    • Automated Updates: Refreshes spreadsheet connections via the master runner script. 
    • Flexible Execution: Run on a schedule or on demand. 
    • Time-Saving: Eliminates manual refresh steps. 
    • Toggle Control: Easily enabled or disabled as needed. 
    • Scalable: Supports broader use of data connections. 
    • Data Accuracy: Helps to ensure the most up-to-date data is used.

  • Publish Links - Automatically publish all links on demand or on a schedule.
    • Efficiency: Saves time by eliminating manual publishing steps. 
    • Scheduled or On-Demand: Can run automatically or be triggered as needed. 
    • Scalable: Supports increased volume and frequency of link publishing. 
    • Control & Flexibility: Can be turned on or off based on workflow needs. 
    • Data Freshness: Helps ensure users access the most current published data. 
     
  • Grouping Rollup
    • Quick Mapping: Easily see where each FHBID fits in financial statement groups. 
    • Detailed Breakdown: View unadjusted trial balance, adjustments, and adjusted amounts by FHBID. 
    • Improved Transparency: Clear audit trail from raw data to final financials. 
    • Efficient Review: Simplifies analysis and decision-making with organized financial data. 

  • Automatic Validation
    • Proactive Issue Detection: Flags variances early based on predefined rules. 
    • Automated Notifications: Assigns reconciliation tasks to users when issues are found. 
    • Improved Accuracy: Helps ensure reconciliation issues aren’t missed. 
    • Flexible Execution: Can run on a schedule or on demand. 
    • Toggle Control: Easily enabled or disabled as needed. 
    • Exception Handling: Includes an exception list to exclude known variances from alerts. 

  • API Upgrade
    • To ensure uninterrupted service, continued support, and access to enhanced capabilities, we are proactively upgrading our system to use the newer API versions in alignment with Workiva. For full details, see our Knowledge Base Article.

  • Updated Scripts (Built with Python 3.13)
    • Faster, Smoother Processing: Existing scripts will run faster. 
    • Improved Error Handling: Clearer error messages and improved error handling make it easier to spot and fix issues. 
    • More Reliable and Secure Performance: Automations will run more consistently, reducing interruptions and improving overall efficiency. 
    • Scripts will continue to run beyond Workiva's end-of-life deadline for Python 3.9 on October 31, 2026. For more on this, see our Knowledge Base article.

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