Last year’s actuals in. Next year’s budget out, with a reason on every cell

Budgeting and forecasting software on your live ledgers. Tell Claude or ChatGPT the assumptions, and it drafts the budget and writes every value with its reason, after you approve. The P&L, balance sheet and cash flow move together, and the version the board approves stays locked.

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Connected to Control · Example Group. Pick the first ask below.

Create a 2027 budget from the last twelve months of actuals.

Read the group P&L, October 2025 to September 2026get_group_statement_actuals

Read the budget import formatdescribe_bulk_file_import_format

I’ll create Budget 2027 by group account and fill every month from the same month of October 2025 to September 2026, each value with that reason. Go ahead?

Yes, go ahead

Created Budget 2027control_api_request

Imported twelve months for every accountsubmit_bulk_file_import

Done. Budget 2027 holds twelve months for every account: revenue €16.6m and EBITDA €3.5m, as in the last twelve months. Every value says where it came from.

Example GroupBudgetsBudget 2027Revenue and personnel · EUR
Account and lineTrailing 12 moJun 27Jul 27Dec 27FY 2027
All entitiesSame month in the last twelve months of actuals480,00049,00053,00028,000480,000
Existing teamSame month in the last twelve months of actuals3,960,000330,000330,000330,0003,960,000
Change historyBudget 2027 created from actuals · via ClaudeIllustrative data
  • 01Your own access rightsThe connector signs in with your Control login, so the agent sees and changes only what you can.
  • 02Asks before it writesThe agent proposes each write and waits for your yes.
  • 03Never the locked originalWrites land in the draft, forecast or scenario you name.

Each sentence of this budget read slowly, with the skill file that carries its rules: Financial modeling in the age of AI. Starting with one company? Budgeting software for startups builds next year’s budget from one conversation.

Three statements

The P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, from one plan

This is Budget 2027 from the session above. Add the balance sheet to the plan and the cash flow follows: receivables and payables are tied to the P&L, so the ending cash is computed from the plan, not estimated beside it.

Budget 2027Example Group · EUR thousandsIllustrative data
P&LFY 2027
Revenue
17,882
Cost of sales
−6,720
Gross profit
11,162
Operating costs
−6,357
EBITDA
4,805
Depreciation
−360
Taxes
−889
Net income
3,556
Balance sheet31 Dec 2027Balanced
Cash
6,187
Receivables45 days of December revenue
2,362
Fixed assets
1,840
Total assets
10,389
Payables50 days of cost of sales
933
Loans
900
Equity
8,556
Liabilities and equity
10,389
Cash flowFY 2027
Net income
3,556
Depreciation
360
Change in receivables
−162
Change in payables
33
Operating cash flow
3,787
Investing
−400
Financing
−300
Opening cash2026 year-end forecast
3,100
Ending cash
6,187
Ending cash in the cash flow is the cash on the balance sheet.

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Versions

Lock what the board approves. Reforecast in versions

The budget the board approved never moves, so every forecast and every month of actuals is measured against the same baseline.

VersionsExample Group · FY 2026 · full-year EBITDA · EUR thousandsIllustrative data
  1. Budget 2026Approved 12 Dec 2025 · Locked3,800
  2. Forecast 03/26Actuals to March · Locked
  3. Forecast 06/26Actuals to June · Locked
  4. Forecast 09/26Current · actuals to September3,740−60 against the locked budget
Each version keeps its own change history. The locked budget refuses every write.

Budget 2027 from the session above stays a draft until the board approves it. Lock it then, and next year’s forecasts are measured against it. To test a decision first, see one decision move all three statements on Scenario planning. Running this year’s round now? Budget season, step by step goes from this year’s variance to budget rows by entity, cost centre and vendor, and on to the version the board locks in December.

Questions

What finance teams ask before they budget in Control

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What is a reforecast?

A reforecast updates the year’s numbers while the year runs: actuals to date plus a new forecast for the months left, measured against the budget the board approved. In Control, each reforecast is a new version beside the locked budget, and every changed value keeps the value before and after, who changed it, when and why.

Do department heads have to work in Control?

No. They can keep sending Excel. Control’s Budget assistant reads the workbook in, or your own AI imports it over MCP, and you approve what it proposes.

Can a cost-centre owner see only their own lines?

As of October 2026, not yet. Budget-owner access is in testing, so collect those numbers in Excel and bring them into Control.

Is budgeting an extra module?

No. In Control, budgets, forecasts and scenarios are in every plan.

Can we bring last year’s budget from Excel?

Yes. Import it into Control through the Budget assistant or your AI client. Each imported value carries an explanation, for example the workbook it came from.

Bring last year’s actuals and next year’s assumptions

In 30 minutes we build a 2027 budget on a sample group from three plain sentences, and show how yours would come in from your ledgers and workbooks.

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