Planning & budgeting

To calculate Overdraft Interest in Farm Focus, go to Settings > Bank Accounts, enable the overdraft option, and input the overdraft limit and annual interest rate.

If you have multiple supply numbers that sit under one GST number, and you want to separate production for each, you’ll need to create an additional dairy forecaster. There is no extra charge for this

The Dairy Forecaster helps you budget and track your seasonal milk income, including actual production, projected payments and Fonterra retro payments.

The Cashflow Summary report shows your month-to-month income and spending in a clear and organised format. You can access this report by navigating to the Plan page in Farm Focus.

Planning covers a wide variety of features that help you better make financial decisions on farm. These include Plans, Baseline Plans and working plans

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As you build your plan or budget, take advantage of tools that can help to streamline the process; copy line 2, copy, spread, percentage adjustment, add (worksheet), view, clear, and basic entry.

The Livestock tab of your Working plan will track all of the Actual and Planned stock events throughout the year.

The Accrual view in a plan will display your cashflow based on invoice date, rather than payment date. The financial year items view in Cash view gives an indication of items which span across financial years.

Learn how Dry Sheep Equivalent (DSE), Adult Equivalent (AE), Large Stock Unit (LSU), and Livestock Unit (LU) help you estimate livestock feed demand and stocking rates.