Rolling forecast
A rolling forecast is a continuously updated financial projection that always extends a fixed horizon ahead — typically twelve months — by dropping the most recently closed period and adding an equivalent future period, keeping the.
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A rolling forecast is rebuilt each cycle from three drivers multiplied together: volume, price and margin. Because it is driver-based, updating a handful of assumptions refreshes the whole projection quickly. Each time a period closes, it drops off the back and an equivalent new period is appended at the far end, so the forecast always looks twelve months ahead.
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A consumer goods company always maintains a twelve-month financial projection. Each time a quarter closes, the projection drops that quarter from one end and appends the equivalent quarter twelve months ahead, so the planning window always stays at twelve months. The projection carries no formal performance commitment; it is used for resource allocation and risk identification. What type of planning tool is this?