Simple, versatile Smart Budget™ creates complex budgets in minutes

Orlando, Fla./ October 6, 2003

L & A Partners has released Smart Budget, a Windows application that lets you create a complex, meaningful budget without spending days working with spreadsheets and calculators. Whether your business needs a stand-alone budget for the coming year, or your department needs to create reliable information that you can integrate into the corporate budget process, Smart Budget provides the tools that you need.

Smart Budget eliminates the need for multiple spreadsheets that are typically full of inconsistent data and conflicting formulas. Smart Budget takes your expense and revenue budget information, and creates understandable and accurate projections. Instead of wrestling with your complex corporate budget system, and trying to shoe-horn your numbers into the giant number-crunching machine, Smart Budget lets you concentrate on your business. It takes the drudgery out of creating your budget.

The program's built-in contracts database automatically links contract information with your budget process. The built-in Query Manager makes it easy to retrieve specific, detailed contract information. Instead of hunting for the key figures that you need, and maintaining them in two or more places, Smart Budget integrates these figures seamlessly into your budget process.

Smart Budget completely automates the budget process. It's easy for you to define the parameters and calculations that you need. The program tracks actual versus budgeted revenues and expenses, and gives you easy to understand information about variances, as well as updated forecasts.

It's easy to import accounting and payroll data, as well as cost center definitions. You can produce expense and revenue reports by company, account, cost center, contract, supplier, or whatever business-unit breakdown that is required by the corporate accountants. In addition to a series of reports, you can export your data in spreadsheet, text, PDF, RTF, TIFF, and HTML formats. You can even vary your assumptions and do unlimited "what if" analysis.

With its emphasis on flexibility, the program supports variable fiscal years, multiple languages, multiple currencies, and many other user-defined settings.

Whether you're a project manager who needs to take control of multiple suppliers and contractors, a corporate staff person who needs to ensure that your line managers are creating realistic budgets, or a department head who needs a painless way to bring expenses and revenues under control, Smart Budget can make your budgeting process quicker, easier, and more accurate.