Forecast by Cycle

Forecast by Cycle

Fig. 1 - Forecast by Cycle

This report summarizes campaign results by cycle (Fig. 1), in terms of both commitments and also in financial terms, and can be shown/ hidden using the toggle button in the top toolbar, or F11 on the keyboard.

First, in the top line, it requires you to make assumptions about revenues and costs. If you have already input this data into the Work Scheduler, then you will find it automatically repeated here. See Revenues and Costs for details.

A description of each column of the output table follows:

Tip

When you completed the Campaign Wizard the first couple of times, you probably spent quite a lot of time researching your call event times, so as to be accurate as possible, and you may have also done a number of 'What Ifs', to assess the upside and downside impacts, where you were not sure about the right data to use.

Apply the same philosophy to this report and the Work Scheduler. Often you simply won't know what results and revenues to expect on a campaign, and you will want to be sure that if your best expectations are not met, then you can still count on a bottom line profit. So be sure to run a number of 'What Ifs', varying not just the revenue and cost assumptions, but also the percentages you specified for Results on the Setup and Talk Properties page.