Module · Finance & Accounting

A budget that compares itself
to actual, live.

Budgeting and planning lets you build annual budgets by department, cost centre, or project — and then watches actuals flow in from the live ledger and flags variances the moment they emerge. No spreadsheet hand-off, no month-end export. The same chart of accounts that drives your P&L drives your budget, so there is never a mapping exercise between the two.

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What it does

Everything in Budgeting & planning.

No add-on tiers, no feature gates — this is what the module ships with, included in every plan.

Capability 01

Department and cost-centre budgets

Define budgets per department, location, or project that map directly to your chart of accounts; actuals post against the correct budget line as transactions are recorded.

Capability 02

Top-down and bottom-up entry

Enter an annual total and let the system spread it monthly, or build from monthly detail upward — whichever matches your planning process.

Capability 03

Live variance reporting

Budget vs actual variance is visible at any point in the period — not just at month-end — so you can act on a cost overrun while there is still time to respond.

Capability 04

Multiple budget versions

Maintain an original budget, a revised forecast, and a stretch target side by side; compare any two versions against actuals without duplicating data.

Capability 05

Payroll integration

Headcount plans in the HR module feed salary and benefits budgets directly so a new hire's loaded cost appears in the budget the moment the role is approved.

Capability 06

Export for board packs

Budget vs actual reports export to PDF or spreadsheet in standard board-pack format, ready for the deck without reformatting.

Where it fits · Across the platform

The budget only works if actuals land in the right line automatically. Same chart of accounts, no mapping.

Step 01
Budget set
Annual targets defined by department against the same chart of accounts used for bookkeeping.
Step 02
Transaction posted
Every invoice, expense, and payroll run is coded to a GL account that maps to a budget line automatically.
Step 03
Variance visible
Overspend flags appear mid-period, not after the month closes and the report runs.
Step 04
Plan updated
Revised forecast replaces the original budget as a new version, preserving the original for year-end comparison.
Replaces

Cancel the point tools.

Planful and Anaplan are enterprise financial planning platforms with per-seat pricing, implementation timelines, and dedicated admins. For teams of five to fifty, this is overkill wrapped in a substantial bill.

Planful.
Planful is an enterprise FP&A platform that requires implementation resources and carries enterprise pricing — appropriate for a 500-person finance team, not for a 20-person operator who needs budgets that compare to actuals without a consulting project.
Anaplan.
Anaplan's connected planning model is genuinely powerful at scale but demands model builders, significant configuration, and a licence cost that far exceeds the value for SMB operations. Mewayz covers the planning and variance loop in the same plan as the rest of your operations.
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