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macs Software, based on best practice in management accounting / marginal costing, enables integrated planning and analysis across all departments and locations of your organization and interconnects between them. Standard functions such as calculating contribution margins at customer and product / service level are critical for decision support to your business. A set of comprehensive variance analysis reports (Analysis of Change in Profit, Flexed Budget Performance, etc) best support this process.
As part of your planning and strategy formulation process, you will have information on important business questions, for example
- In which market segment do you earn your money?
- At which work center activity rates do you produce?
- What are the raw material requirements?
- Do you have sufficient production resources?
- How does your company react to changing buying behavior?
- What does your cash flow look like?
- How does your company react to changed raw material and purchase prices?
- Does your pricing ensure margin recovery of increases in cost.
- Which assets are generating profit ? ... and more.
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The macs Solution for Planning and Optimizing of Profit
The macs solution assists in generating your business plan quick and easy based on analytics that macs provides and targets set by business management. macs is more than just your costing engine. It is your Planning and Analysis tool to optimize profit. macs shows your results in contribution margin steps up to EBIT per customer and product and aggregated as per your profit accountability structure in your organisation as well as consolidated across a group of companies. Transfer pricing within a group of companies is visible showing inter-company profits at product and customer level thus making profit more manageable.
macs reveals the need for action and calls for interventions in your business activities. Maximum success through maximum transparency.
- Sales Volumes, Revenue , Pricing Conditions and Contribution Margins
- Work center activity rates and manufacturing costs
- Material and capacity requirements
- Overhead cost and cost centers
- Procurement planning
- Employee cost
- Process Cost
The POWER of macs: Multidimensional Contribution Margin Analytics
The particular strength of macs is the horizontal and vertical integration of your entire organization and value chain respectively. All sub-plans are driver based and interlinked. Combine your production and/or distribution levels in the value chain and merge the individual stand-alone solutions in the various disciplines into a holistic view of your results.
- Financial Controlling (integrated financial planning)
- Capacity Management
- Cost Management
- Procurement
- Sales
- Consolidation
- Sensitivity Analysis
- and others
Reliability for Cost, Operational Output and Revenue Management
With macs you create total transparency. Cost, operational activities and revenue are attributed correctly to the relevant cost objects, products, customers and business units respectively. Effective management accounting is enabled holistically throughout all levels of the organization. macs highlights deviations from plans and cost variances, acts as an early warning system, saves time of key staff and supports management in their decisions. Management accounting gets into the minds of everybody and is a matter for everyone.
- Stepped contribution margin statements
- Sales price /volume and cost variances - Analysis of change in profit
- Manufacturing Cost Target vs Actual Comparison
- Material and resource consumption variances
- Operational activity variances
- Profit and loss statement
- Balance sheet
- Cash flow
Unlimited Opportunities
macs Software not only offers holistic management decision support power for your organization but also many other opportunities which make your daily tasks in managing far easier. All numbers reported are reconciled with the financial results hence reliable. This is real added value compared to stand-alone spreadsheets.
And in the end there is more time for analysis and interpretation of data that is 100% reliable. There is time to think ahead with focus on strategy and to identify opportunities where profitability can be improved.
- Currency and client capability
- Local and International Accounting Standards
- Copy and paste of tabular data to macs software
- Interfaces to all applications (ERP, CRM, BDE, etc.)
- Smart Dashboard
- Diverse display options