Translate strategy into long range financial models

Alight Planning is activity-based planning, the fundamental tool for translating strategy into a financial model. With spreadsheets, strategic thinking and financial models are typically detached. With Alight, long term thinking and finance are interactively linked.

• Underlying assumptions about activities and the costs or prices of each should drive the long range financial model. In spreadsheets, such assumptions are spread over across multiple worksheets or workbooks. In Alight, they are integrated and linked: you change and monitor assumptions from one plan file with complete visibility into underlying activity units and rates.
• Activity-driver relationships — Activity based planning is about creating an interactive financial model that lets you build and modify complex structures and observe the financial impacts. In spreadsheets, building structures with formulas takes time; changing structures nearly always creates errors. Alight's intuitive architecture and unique interface for linking makes it fast to create activity driver relationships and safe to make changes.
• Rolling up details to financial statements — How often have you heard (or said) this: "That's a good question... let me update the spreadsheet and get back to you..."? With Alight, you can identify and make changes in real time with instant updating of the activity model and roll ups to the P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow.