Modernize Cash Flow Forecasting with Connected, Data‑Driven Insights
Streamline capital planning with one connected platform that manages investments, automates asset modeling, and improves decision‑making to optimize spend and support growth.
Empower Managers
Enable departmental-level fixed asset capital planning and accountability while providing a better control environment across the organization.
Create Plans
Leverage pre-built global drivers by asset class to standardize useful life assumptions and depreciation calculations.
Increase Collaboration
Share insights and collaborate using OneStream’s built-in reports and visualizations. Enhance dialogue with business partners on critical analysis and decision-making.
Create Granular, Bottom-Up Plans and Scenarios
Extend financial plans with dynamic, agile plans for new projects and existing fixed assets within a seamless user experience and without IT involvement.
- Import existing assets and accumulated depreciation expense from leading ERP systems.
- Dynamically calculate maintenance, insurance and depreciation by asset class for P&L and Balance Sheet impact.
- Easily add new projects or assets and manage existing fixed assets.
Dynamically Align With Financial Plans and Forecasts
Plan at the granularity line managers require while understanding the impact of new capital projects on financial results.
- Calculate maintenance, insurance and depreciation by asset class for P&L and Balance Sheet impact.
- Increase insights into construction in process (CIP) and finished goods as assets move through the internal supply chain.
- Collaborate with business partners in real-time to develop integrated business plans.
Complete Foreign Exchange and Cash Flow Deploy Across OneStream
Align plans through all planning and forecasting processes within OneStream.
- Integration with other OneStream planning solutions including Cash Planning.
- Drill-back from financial reports and dashboards back to Capital Planning for full transparency and auditability into underlying operational plans.
- Build workforce planning requirements directly into key planning and forecasting tasks and workflows.
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FAQs About Capital Planning Software
Capital project management software helps organizations plan, track, and manage large investments in assets, infrastructure, and development projects. It streamlines budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, and financial tracking to ensure projects stay on time and within budget.
Capital planning software enhances financial decision‑making by consolidating all capital requests, active projects, and long‑range investment plans into a single, governed environment. By replacing decentralized spreadsheets with structured, real‑time data, finance teams can evaluate the full lifecycle of proposed assets, including acquisition costs, depreciation schedules, maintenance requirements, funding sources, and cash‑flow implications with far greater accuracy.
Advanced modeling and scenario analysis allow organizations to compare competing projects based on financial impact, risk, timing, and strategic fit. Users can assess how changes in project scope, inflation assumptions, funding mix (cash vs. debt), or construction timelines affect near‑term budgets and long‑term financial outcomes across the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement.
This integrated, disciplined approach supports more transparent governance, improves capital allocation, and ensures investment decisions are grounded in both financial feasibility and strategic priorities, rather than fragmented planning.
Capital budgeting is the formal process that organizations use to evaluate, rank, and select long-term investments that involve significant financial outlays. It focuses on determining whether a project's future cash flows will generate a sufficient return to justify the initial expenditure, typically using financial metrics like Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and Payback Period.
A project budget is the financial plan for a specific project, detailing costs related to its execution, such as materials, labor, and overhead, over a defined timeline. It focuses on short-term expenses needed to complete that particular project.
A capital budget, on the other hand, is a long-term financial plan for significant investments in assets or infrastructure, such as buildings, machinery, or large projects. It covers the costs of acquiring, upgrading, or maintaining physical assets over multiple years and often includes multiple projects.
Capital budgeting best practices involve using structured methods to evaluate investment opportunities, such as NPV, IRR, and Payback Period, while aligning projects with strategic goals.
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is a financial metric that measures how effectively a company generates profit from its invested capital. It is calculated by dividing net operating profit after taxes (NOPAT) by the total invested capital. ROIC helps assess the efficiency of a company in using its capital to generate returns and is a key indicator of financial performance.
