You're going to love BFA!!!! Part Uno

What is BFA you ask?

Well, we could probably come up with all sorts of creative uses for the initials BFA, but in the parlance of Spitfire, BFA stands for Budgeting, Forecasting, and Analysis.

In Spitfire Documentation, BFA is referred to Budgeting, Project Analysis, and Forecasting; but you're goind to have to talk to someone smarter than me to find out why it's called BFA and not BPAF, or just BPF. But whatever you call it, it works SLICK!!!! BFA is one of the best reasons to purchase Spitfire - which is saying a lot, because the program has lots of cool features.

As the Controller/Project Account/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer here at work, I never have enough time to do the things I need to do. So one of the things that's always fallen by the wayside is keeping up project budgets and forecasts - it's just one of those non-essential duties (unlike payroll) that can be overlooked.

With BFA it's easy to keep up with Revised Budgets and Forecasts


BFA is probably the easiest thing I've ever seen for Budgeting. What I love about BFA is that it's written in MS Excel! Which is really cool for me cause I have some high and exalted Microsoft Excel Professional Certification - something like Grand Pumba of All Things Excel (or some similarly silly Microsoft conferred title). But it's also really cool for everybody because now that MS Office is the de facto standard, it means that almost everbody knows Excel. Which translates into smaller learning curves - which means I have to do less training!!!

The next cool thing about BFA is that you can link your BFA worksheet to other worksheeets. There's a technical whitepaper on that process, but I'll explain it in Part II.