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Excel/VBA Budget Consolidation Toolkit

One-click consolidation of department budget submissions with validation and rolling forecast refresh.

Stack · Excel · VBA · Financial ModelingRecord type · Operating casePublished

BeforeDaysper cycle

AfterHoursvalidated consolidation

01 / CONTEXT

The operating constraint

Consolidating a dozen department budget templates into the master model was a manual copy-paste exercise every cycle, with version-control and broken-formula risk on every round.

02 / SYSTEM

How the system was rebuilt

Step 01

Built a VBA toolkit that consolidates submissions in one click.

Step 02

Added validation for missing inputs, out-of-range variances, and broken links.

Step 03

Rolled actuals into a rolling forecast without re-keying the master model.

03 / CONTROLS

Systems & stack

ExcelVBAFinancial Modeling

04 / RESULT

What changed

Measured outcome

Consolidation effort dropped from days to hours per cycle. Input errors fell because issues are flagged before they reach the master model.

05 / REUSE

What I would carry forward

The value of a consolidation macro is the errors it refuses to accept — not the speed of the paste.

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