In today’s collaborative work environment, business files are often being worked on by many people at once. One person: Adds a budget category and fills out some numbers Another adjusts their department’s sales figures Someone else runs a quick calculation and fixes an incorrect entry In the past, these things…

One of the best things about using the budgeting and forecasting software True Sky, is that the software is designed with the general user in mind – not just finance people. This means that True Sky works the way the average user thinks. Instead of operating on confusing jargon or…

We write a lot about what True Sky can do for your business – from shortening your annual budget planning process, to helping you switch from an annual budget to rolling forecasting, to helping you maintain a flexible, realistic financial picture of your business. But what exactly is True Sky,…

We’ve all been there: after you’ve gone through all the time and effort to make a good, solid budget for your business, suddenly one month you find it’s wildly out of sync with your actual numbers. Maybe your sales projections failed to take into account some new development, or you…

Has this ever happened to you? You come into the office the week after the holidays, and the energy level among your employees is noticeably lower. Your accounting team isn’t as chatty. They take a longer time to make coffee or eat their lunches. Their productivity isn’t what it was…

If you’re the CFO of a mid-size or larger company, you probably end up needing to delegate most of your company’s budgeting and financial analysis to your staff. And it’s likely that, since they’ve got their own daily tasks to attend to, they don’t have a huge amount of time…

If you’re thinking of moving your business away from an annual budgeting model to a rolling forecasting model, you’re not alone. In fact, a growing number of companies are using rolling forecasting these days, which is why we designed True Sky to work for this method as well as for…

If you’re like most people, you probably cringe at the words budgeting and forecasting. At True Sky, we’re actually budget nerds – we love figuring out how to make this often onerous process more intuitive, easy, and dare we say it, enjoyable. We’ve put all our expertise into making True…

The end of the year is always a busy time at the office. There are projects to wrap up, client contacts to make before the holidays hit, corporate holiday cards to send – and, not least of all these, business budgets to handle. At True Sky, we’re always preaching our…

We’ve all worked at companies that used highly specialized budgeting software. And while that type of software can seem necessary at times, usually it creates a lot more problems than it solves. For example, what if you’re not in the finance department? You still need to enter budget items at…