Refresh the rolling forecast

Publish an accepted outlook with a reproducible monthly basis.

4 stages · 1 approval

Roles and responsibilities

Cost-Center Head FP&A Analyst FP&A Director System 1 Reconcile theclosed month BudgetLines 2 Submit the nextoutlook RollingForecastSubmissions 3 Review and acceptthe submission RollingForecastSubmissions 4 Publish thecomplete curve RollingForecasts
  1. Step 2Submit the next outlook
    Pending Forecast SubmissionsSubmitted
    Submission NumberRolling ForecastEntitySubmitted By
  2. Step 3Review and accept the submission
    Pending Forecast SubmissionsSubmitted
    Submission NumberRolling ForecastEntitySubmitted By
  3. Step 4Publish the complete curve
    Rolling Forecast — Current WindowOpen
    Forecast CodeNameCycleAs Of Period
Red diamonds require approval.Rows show responsibility for each step.

Process steps

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Reconcile the closed month

FP&A Analyst validates the posted ledger batch, source cutoff and mappings before the complete Actual snapshot is published. Repeated loads resolve their original identity. No forecast calculation should consume a partly imported month.

Responsible
FP&A Analyst
Records
BudgetLinesRollingForecasts
Effect
Publish reconciled actuals

Submit the next outlook

Cost-Center Head submits the entity’s per-account and per-period forecast detail. RollingForecastSubmissions retains its revision and LinesSnapshotKey. Its revenue and cost totals must reconcile to those lines within the declared window.

Responsible
Cost-Center Head
Records
RollingForecastSubmissionsBudgetLines
Effect
Submit the scoped forecast
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Review and accept the submission

FP&A Analyst reviews Submitted to FPAReviewed. FP&A Director separately accepts FPAReviewed to Accepted. A queue visible to the submitter does not grant either action; changed detail requires a new reviewed revision.

Responsible
FP&A Director · after Analyst review
Records
RollingForecastSubmissions
Effect
Accept the reviewed revision

Publish the complete curve

Apply explicitly allocated signed ForecastAdjustments once to accepted snapshots. Validate and publish all resulting lines under a new forecast identity. A failure preserves the prior published curve, and a new month cannot overwrite a locked outlook.

Responsible
FP&A Director
Records
RollingForecastsForecastAdjustmentsBudgetLines
Effect
Publish an intact forecast snapshot
Approvals and controls

1 approval required in this process

Records and postings

StageRecordsEffect
1 Reconcile the closed month BudgetLinesRollingForecasts Publish reconciled actuals
2 Submit the next outlook RollingForecastSubmissionsBudgetLines Submit the scoped forecast
3 Review and accept the submission RollingForecastSubmissions Accept the reviewed revision
4 Publish the complete curve RollingForecastsForecastAdjustmentsBudgetLines Publish an intact forecast snapshot
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Process reports

All reports

Rolling Forecast Trajectory

Per Account per Period across the rolling window: BudgetAmount, ActualAmount (closed periods), ForecastAmount (open periods), with the trajectory line over the last several RollingForecasts to show how the forward view has shifted month over month.

Budget vs Actual vs Forecast

Per Period per Entity per Account: BudgetAmount, ActualAmount, ForecastAmount, Variance, VariancePct, ForecastVariance, with the Cost-Center Head and FluxStatus surfaced inline. Drillable from LegalEntity → Division → Department → CostCenter → Account, with the FluxComments rendered at the leaf. The FP&A Analyst's daily landing report and the close-week defense pack.

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Agent support

An agent cannot invent board authorization, approve its own transfer, alter locked history or publish a partly reconciled ledger import. Suggested assumptions remain proposals until the appropriate workflow accepts them. A generated PDF is distinct from a CFO-approved packet.

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# Example after configuration $ curl -fsSL https://www.erp.ai/skill.md | paste into your agent › refresh the rolling forecast · reconcile the closed month on BudgetLines, RollingForecasts ✓ FP&A Analyst validates the posted ledger batch, source cutoff and mappings before the complete Actual snapshot is published. › refresh the rolling forecast · submit the next outlook on RollingForecastSubmissions, BudgetLines ✓ Cost-Center Head submits the entity’s per-account and per-period forecast detail. › refresh the rolling forecast · review and accept the submission on RollingForecastSubmissions ⏸ approval after Analyst review · waiting for the fp&a director # 1 more stage after approval: publish the complete curve

Other processes

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Build and approve the budget

Take a scoped proposal through the required financial decisions.

5 stages · 3 approvals

Approve budget transfers

Reallocate budget with balanced changes and clear decision ownership.

5 stages · 2 approvals

Review variance and board packs

Turn reconciled results into an approved financial review packet.

4 stages · 1 approval

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