The Fiplan guide
Everything you need to know to build a sound financial plan with Fiplan.
Every screen, every module, every calculation in Fiplan, explained step by step with a worked example: Boulangerie Dupont SRL, from creating the client to the PDF handed to the notary.
The complete journey, with Boulangerie Dupont
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The thread of a financial plan in Fiplan, from the client to the report.
- The thread of a plan: client, file, data entry, report
- A tour of the application
- The firm dashboard
- Search and shortcuts
- Your profile
- Help and support
Clients and files
Create a client's record, then their file — a company to be incorporated or an existing company.
- Creating a client
- Creating a file: a company to incorporate or an existing company
- Importing the prior-year (N-1) balance sheet of an existing company
- Loans in progress and assets already held
- The N-1 income statement and tax losses
- Correcting the prior year (N-1) of an existing company
- The client record
- The file settings
- Duplicating a file or creating a version of it
- Archiving, moving to the bin, restoring
- Giving your client access
- Exchanges with your clients
- Published documents
Data entry, module by module
Each data-entry module, its fields, and what Fiplan posts from it to the journal.
- Entering revenue
- Purchases and expenses: supplies and general expenses
- Entering a change in stock
- Staff: entering remuneration
- Entering an investment
- Entering a bank loan
- The director's remuneration
- The director's social contributions
- Entering a lease (finance lease)
- The shareholder current account
- Shareholder contributions
- Capital subsidies
- Receivables and debts
- Miscellaneous operations
- Allocating the result and the dividend
- The opening balance sheet of an incorporation
- Choosing a PCMN account
- The monthly detail and growth
- The list of lines in a module
The checks
The checks badge, what it measures and what it cannot measure.
- Reading the checks badge
- Accounting structure checks
- Financial coherence checks
- Business checks
- The direction of balances
- Input compliance
Results and analysis
Income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, VAT, ratios and valuation.
- Reading the income statement
- Reading the balance sheet — simplified view and legal BNB view
- Cash, financial year by financial year and month by month
- VAT administration
- Ratios and the rating
- KPIs, distribution capacity and sensitivity
- Valuing the business
- Putting a file under monitoring and importing the trial balance
- Reading the variances and the cash bridge
- Revising a plan during the year
- The distribution test
- The two tests: net assets and liquidity
- The distribution report
Tax
Corporate income tax, advance tax payments, VAT in the plan.
- Corporate income tax and the reduced rate
- Advance tax payments and the surcharge
- Disallowed expenses (DNA)
- Prior tax losses and the basket
- VAT in the plan — regimes and parameters
- Withholding tax on dividends
- The tax assumptions retained
- Year-end forecast, tax and advance payments
Reports and exports
The report templates, the PDF, the Excel file.
- Generating the plan's PDF
- The Standard, Notary, Bank and Advisory templates
- The plan's Excel file
- Writing your plan
- Pinned charts
- Exporting the firm's data
- Publishing the monitoring report to the client
Firm, team, subscription
Your firm, your colleagues and their roles, your plan.
- Firm settings
- The logo, colour and theme of documents
- Inviting a collaborator
- Roles and what they allow
- The trial, the subscription and the file quota
- Time spent
How Fiplan calculates
Every formula of the engine, with its notation, its numerical application and its journal entry.
- The stock policy, in formulas
- Depreciation of an investment, in formulas
- The repayment schedule of a constant-annuity loan, in formulas
- Corporate income tax in two passes, in formulas
- VAT, from the line to the return, in formulas
- Cash and payment terms, in formulas
- Compound growth, in formulas