Why finance and FP&A teams pick Virtuoso
Most budgeting tools sit beside the ERP and import actuals on a schedule. Virtuoso is the ERP — so actuals are always live, variance is always defendable, and any number on a budget report drills straight into the documents behind it.
What you get
- Arbitrary budget structure — define hierarchies and items that match your business, not the system’s defaults.
- Plan vs actual, automatically — actuals come straight from posted documents. No imports, no schedules, no reconciliation work.
- Drill-down from any budget figure — open the operations behind a number, then jump to the source document line.
- Cross-entity consolidation — consolidated budgets across corporate enterprises, with full analytical detail preserved.
Capabilities
Budget structures and analytics
- Hierarchical budget items, financial responsibility centers, and multilevel analytical detailing.
- Plan and actual data entry with configurable calculation rules for actual budget items.
- Reporting by analytical dimensions: address, contract, item, cost center, cost item, activity type.
Cash-flow management
- Cash-flow budget items and planned outflow indicators.
- Creditor invoice acceptance, acceptance amounts, automatic linking of payments with invoices and transfer memos.
- Spending limits by responsibility center, with priorities and allocation order.
- Automatic calculation of planned payments with manual correction.
- Payment registers and export of payment orders to client-bank systems.
Profit-and-loss forecasting
- Income and expense budget structures.
- Functional budgets by responsibility center and budget item.
- Consolidated P&L budget format.
- Planned indicators with automatic actual updates.
Financial analysis report editor
- Reports with arbitrary structure — group, leaf, hidden, and detailed-by-analytic rows.
- Formula language with debit/credit turnover, opening/closing balances, and period functions.
- Period-based or date-range reporting with dynamics by period, quarter, year, or date.
- Graphical display, printing, and Excel export.
Outcomes
- Budgets that update themselves as the business posts.
- Variance investigations resolved in minutes through direct drill-down.
- Payment registers and spending limits that prevent overruns at posting time.
- One report editor for management, statutory, and analytical reporting needs.
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