Budget planning
that holds up.
Atheniks Planner replaces Excel models with a structured planning environment. Cost centres, monthly budgets and plan-vs-actual comparisons in one system.
The Problem
Excel-based budgeting breaks exactly
when trust matters most.
Every budget process starts the same way. Multiple files, different versions, comments scattered across emails. Nobody knows which file is the current basis.
Version chaos
Files get copied, forwarded and renamed. Nobody knows which version is valid anymore.
Manual variance analysis
The same view gets rebuilt every month instead of understanding root causes and making decisions.
No shared foundation
Every department maintains its own file. Consolidation takes days instead of minutes.
The Solution
A planning workspace
your finance team can trust.
Atheniks Planner replaces classic Excel processes with a structured environment for budgeting and forecasting. Numbers stay consistent, assumptions are connected and every figure has a clear basis.
Unified model
Budgets are structured by cost centre and month in a single model, not spread across many files.
Connected assumptions
Changes propagate through the entire model without losing totals or relationships.
Stable structure
The structure stays stable even as inputs change. The budget remains reliable at all times.
Features
What Atheniks Planner actually does.
These features replace the manual steps that cost finance teams time every day.
Build
Budget blocks via drag & drop
Cost items are created as blocks and assigned to cost centres and months by drag & drop. The structure is built without any formulas.
Control
Monthly limits and progress
Spending limits can be set per cost centre and month. The progress bar shows instantly how much of the budget has already been allocated.
Analysis
Variance analysis and visualisation
Plan vs. actuals is evaluated automatically: line chart, monthly variance bars, variance heatmap by cost centre and budget waterfall.
Export
Export as CSV and Excel
Budget plan and actuals can be exported separately as CSV or Excel, ready for presentations, reports or audits.
Who it’s for
Who uses Atheniks Planner and what for.
CFO / Head of Finance
Company-wide annual budgets
You own the entire budget process and need a single reliable foundation across all cost centres.
Controller
Monthly operating costs
Recurring costs are captured cleanly by cost centre and month, without rebuilding from scratch each period.
Finance teams in-year
Rolling forecast
When conditions change, assumptions are updated directly in the model without rebuilding the underlying structure.
Budgeting that actually works.
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