Build the budget and the forecast on your live ledgers, not in a copy of them. Lock the version the board approves, plan the balance sheet and cash flow with the P&L, and open any variance down to the transactions behind it.
Solar Foods, listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland, keeps locked budget, forecast and actual versions in Control.
Monthly revenue, FY 2027. Example Group, illustrative data.
Budgets and forecasts use the same group accounts, entities and dimensions as your reports. Actuals arrive with every sync, so the plan is always compared with current numbers.
Lock the approved budget as the version every later number is measured against. Reforecast in new versions as the year moves, and the locked baseline stays as it was.
Add the balance sheet to the plan and the cash flow follows. Balance sheet drivers tie receivables and payables to the P&L, so the plan’s ending cash ties to its balance sheet.
Compare actuals with the approved budget or any forecast, monthly or year to date, by entity and for the group. Open a gap to the entities, accounts and transactions behind it.
The tedious part of a budget is filling hundreds of rows. Your AI client can draft them, with a reason for every value, and it asks before it writes.
Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Codex to seed a budget or revise a forecast over MCP. The client proposes each write and waits for your yes. Every value it saves carries its reason, shown on the budget cell next to the number.
Spread a shared cost across entities in the budget and see each entity’s total before and after. In the functional P&L, an allocation key splits a shared cost by a live driver from actuals, such as revenue, or by fixed percentages you enter.
Claude, ChatGPT and Codex read plan values, change history and actuals over MCP, and other MCP clients can connect the same way. A connection can be limited to read-only.
The plan, the actuals and the reasons behind each number stay in one place, so every planning cycle starts from where the last one ended.
Seed each account from prior actuals, or read the department workbooks in.
Add the balance sheet, and the cash flow follows from the P&L.
The number the board signed off stays fixed as the baseline.
Measure each month of actuals against it and save new forecasts as versions.
No. Budgets, forecasts and scenarios live in Control beside the actuals, on the same group accounts, entities and dimensions as your reports. Your ledgers stay where they are.
Yes. Add the balance sheet to the plan and the indirect cash flow follows. Balance sheet drivers tie receivables and payables to the P&L.
No. The approved version stays locked. Forecasts and scenarios are separate versions, compared with it and with actuals.
Claude, ChatGPT and Codex connect over MCP, and other MCP clients can connect the same way. The client proposes each write and waits for approval, and Control rejects a budget write that does not say why each value is what it is.
Budgeting is included in every plan, from €249 a month, billed monthly. There is no implementation fee.
Book a demo with the Control team. Bring your accounting systems and one question, and we walk through how a group like yours runs on Control. Or start for free and set it up yourself.