Brilliant Budgets and Forecasts

This chapter is about …

Creating the complete illustration framework comprising a sales, budget and cash flow forecast.

Important: I recommend you use the ready made illustration framework available with the downloaded examples, rather than build one yourself. However, I’ll give you enough detail in this chapter if you want to create your own examples. Also note that the downloaded examples contain some features that will be used later in the book – ignore these for now.

The sales forecast

The downloaded example is the Sales Forecast tab of Chapter 6 Illustration Framework.xls. Below row 21 it contains features used later in the book – ...