How to budget as an early-stage startup

How to budget as an early-stage startup

So you’ve just incorporated your startup, printed several thousand business cards, and changed your laptop screensaver to “I’m the CEO”. Now is the time to show future investors they can trust you by building a beautiful budget – because naturally, you know what you’re doing! Exciting possibilities lie before you – how are you going …

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5 books to help you be more productive at work

5 books to help you be more productive at work

We’ve all heard it before: you’ve got the same number of hours in the day as Beyoncé. (Your choice of idol may vary.) But knowing how to get the most out of that time can be tricky. We’ve all heard we should be working smarter, not harder – but no one ever explains how! Thankfully, …

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6 ways to get more organised at work

6 ways to get more organised at work

If you’ve ever rolled your eyes when someone mentioned ‘feng shui’ or scoffed outloud when you heard Marie Kondo had written a fourth book about tidying up, you should know there’s real science behind it all: human beings just operate better when things are organised. And not only with our physical space either. Stress and …

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Feature spotlight: drivers

Feature spotlight: drivers

If you haven’t used drivers in your financial planning before, they’re like a mail merge for your budgets. Any planning that relies on a changeable figure – like a head count for personnel costs or an exchange rate for currency conversions – will work best as a driver.

Feature spotlight: copying a plan

Feature spotlight: copying a plan

Starting the new financial year (not to mention sorting out tax for the last one!) is stressful enough without giving yourself unnecessary work. On Beyond, you can create a plan for your new financial year in two clicks, by basing it on your current plan.

Feature spotlight: breakdown reports

Feature spotlight: breakdown reports

Breakdown reports let you see what’s happening in your business. Get a high-level overview of a plan (or multiple plans) broken down by the details that are most important to you – profit and loss, company structure, or custom categories. Then delve into the details where you need to, drilling down into departments, teams, and …

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Feature spotlight: automatic rules

Feature spotlight: automatic rules

Our rules rule. Rules automatically assign new transactions to the right activities and plans, and save you time. Over 99% of the actuals a typical company brings into Beyond are assigned automatically by actuals, without staff needing to review them – that’s hundreds of hours freed up for more important work. Spend two minutes setting …

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COVID-19 has thrown us all off track.
Let’s get you back on.

COVID-19 has thrown us all off track.
Let’s get you back on.

Beyond exists to help businesses navigate change, to enable them to make the most effective use of their resources and to keep employees in the loop no matter where they are. Right now, being able to do these things fast and well is more crucial than ever. We’ve been thinking how we can help as …

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Activity Categories: new dimensions of budgeting

Activity Categories: new dimensions of budgeting

At Beyond, we breathe life into your budgets. This means giving you the context behind every actual or forecast – which activity does it belong to? Who’s responsible for it? Which budget does it come out of? Which financial month/year does it fall into? Being able to answer these questions in real-time already places you …

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Introducing the dashboard: everything you need to know

Introducing the dashboard: everything you need to know

Who says Christmas only comes once a year? Sure, Santa may have brought you a tangerine, but the Beyond Elves have done one better and delivered what was on the top of everyone’s shiny new feature wishlist: a dashboard page that summarises everything you need to know about. …what do you mean you asked for …

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