| 摘要 |
<p>The invention is directed to a budget planning system that improves the accuracy and predictability of budget planning within large organizations by enabling organizations to reconcile corporate financial models and organizational targets with detailed spending forecasts. An exemplary budgeting system (8) includes web servers (20), software modules (12), user database (22) and model database (24). The model database is configured to store data defining budgeting model for organization. The model has a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes, each node corresponding to a "contibutor" that either provides forecast data or review data provided by contributors associated with lower level nodes. The system is configured to capture target data from a set of financial analysts, capture forecast data from contributors and reconcile the target data and forecast data according to the model. More specifically, the forecast data captures forecast data from contributors associated with nodes of a lower level of the hierarchy propagate the forecast data up the hierarchy based on reviews received at contributors at each level.</p> |
