Changing the forecast length and years of monthly detail Follow

By default, the forecast in LivePlan is three years long and includes one year of monthly financial detail and two years of annual detail. However, you can easily change these settings if you prefer.

Changing the forecast length:

1. Click on the Options section:
        
2. Under Length of forecast, choose the number of years you want your forecast to cover:
   
3. Click Save Changes.

Changing a 5-year forecast to 3 years

If you start with a 5-year forecast and want to shorten it to 3 years, you can do that. Remember that this change will permanently delete any data from years 4 and 5 of your forecast. To retain this data, we recommend making a copy of your plan first, then shortening the original's length.

This message will appear when you shorten a forecast:

Once deleted, the year 4 and 5 data cannot be recovered.

Note: if you have multiple forecasts in your plan, making a change from 5 years to 3 will affect every forecast. If you need to retain some of your original 5-year forecasts, we recommend making a copy of your original plan first, and then changing the forecast length in the copy.

Changing the amount of monthly detail:

1. Click on the Options section:
        
2. Under Monthly detail, select one, two, or three years of monthly detail from the drop-down menu:
   
3. Click Save Changes.

Note: if you'd like to add monthly detail to your financial statements as well, please take a look at Adding an Appendix of monthly-detail financials to your downloaded plan.

More Forecast Settings:

• Changing the start date of your forecast
• Changing the setting for multi-month charges
• Changing the company name
• Changing the currency symbol
• Changing the plan language