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If you haven’t used drivers in your financial planning before, they’re like a mail merge for your budgets.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Creating and managing drivers<\/h2>\n

On Beyond, drivers are created and managed by power users. Only power users can add and amend drivers, though managers are able to see them and add them into their reports.<\/p>\n

Whenever a driver number has to change, it can be changed once – and every plan which uses it will be automatically updated.<\/p>\n

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And the historical data won’t be changed. A driver can have up to five years’ worth of figures, broken down into monthly amounts, allowing you to keep your current and upcoming budgets up-to-date without affecting last year’s budgets.<\/p>\n

Drivers are created and managed on the new ‘drivers’ page under ‘settings’. Try setting one up now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Using drivers in activities<\/h2>\n

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We’ll always hide the details when you go onto an activity page (save you scrolling!) but you can click on the blue arrow on the left or anywhere on the summary row to see the full breakdown.<\/p>\n

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