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These tabs hold your agency’s financial plan: what you expect to earn and spend, and how cash moves through the year.

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Budgets

Annual and departmental budgets with revenue, expense totals, and approval status. Columns: Year · Type · Start · End · Revenue · Expenses · Approval Status Type distinguishes an agency-wide annual budget from a departmental one. Approval Status is what makes a budget authoritative rather than a draft.

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Cash Flow

Cash flow entries categorized by type with total amounts. Columns: Type · Name · Total Cash flow is where the timing problem shows up. An agency can be profitable on paper and still struggle when payer remittances arrive later than payroll goes out.
Compare cash flow against your Billing AR aging. A growing gap between billed and paid is the usual cause of cash pressure in home care.

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Expenditure Plans

Planned expenditure budgets with fiscal year ranges. Columns: Year · Start · End Use these for planned capital and programme spending that sits outside the operating budget.

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Strategic Plans

Multi-year strategic business plans with approval workflow. Columns: Name · Year · Approval · Approved By Approved By records who signed the plan off, which matters when a governing body has to demonstrate oversight. See Governing body.

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Building the annual budget

1

Create the budget for the fiscal year

Set Year, Start, and End to match your fiscal calendar.
2

Enter revenue and expense totals

Base revenue on authorized units you can realistically deliver, not on capacity.
3

Add departmental budgets if you use them

Create these as separate records with the departmental Type.
4

Route for approval

Set Approval Status once the budget is signed off.
5

Track cash flow against it through the year

Budget is the plan; cash flow is what actually happened.

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Troubleshooting

Cost reports and tax

Annual reimbursement reporting.

Corporate

Governing body oversight and approvals.