FP&A that runs on the ledger where your numbers are born: forecasts, variance and scenarios drafted by agents rather than built by a modelling team.
Short answer: Aurakore puts FP&A inside an AI-native ERP, so planning runs on the same live ledger as accounting and CRM, and that ledger is Aurakore's own. Anaplan is a multi-dimensional planning platform above your source systems: stronger for enterprise-wide connected planning, but it is not a book of record and the data still has to be imported into it.
| Capability | Aurakore | Anaplan |
|---|---|---|
| Book of record (general ledger & chart of accounts) | Yes: the ledger itself | No: plans over data from your ERP |
| Data source | Live shared ledger and CRM pipeline | Imported and refreshed from source systems |
| Who builds the analysis | Agents draft it; humans approve before anything posts | Your team builds and maintains the models |
| Budgeting & variance analysis | Native, against the ledger it measures | Core strength |
| Cash forecasting & scenarios | Native: burn and runway across base, bull and bear | Modelled from imported data |
| Statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) | Yes: per GAAP/IFRS, each figure traceable to its ledger account | Planning output; statutory reporting stays in your ERP |
| Technical accounting (ASC 606, ASC 842, fixed assets) | Yes: native to the ledger | No: handled in your ERP |
| Tax provision (ASC 740) | Yes: native | No: not offered |
| Multi-entity consolidation & eliminations | Yes: native, with FX translation | Modelled over imported balances |
| Audit / assurance workspace | Yes: native workspace | No: not offered |
| Multi-dimensional planning engine | No: purpose-built finance agents, not a general modelling engine | Yes: connected models across finance, workforce, sales and supply chain |
| Time to first forecast | Live as soon as your ledger is in Aurakore | Model build and implementation project |
| Unified ERP breadth (CRM + finance + legal + HR) | Yes: one platform, one assistant | No: planning only |
Comparison reflects Aurakore's positioning and generally reported characteristics of Anaplan; a point-in-time reading. Anaplan is a trademark of Anaplan, Inc.; Aurakore is not affiliated with Anaplan.
Anaplan is built for enterprise connected planning: multi-dimensional models spanning workforce, sales territory and quota, and supply chain, maintained by a dedicated planning team. Aurakore ships no general-purpose modelling engine for those domains. If you need a company-wide planning platform on top of an ERP you intend to keep, Anaplan leads and Aurakore is not a substitute.
If model maintenance is overhead rather than someone's job, and replacing the ERP is on the table, the layering problem disappears. Planning, the close, consolidation, revenue recognition and the provision run on one ledger, agents draft the analysis, and every figure cites the account it came from.
Aurakore has no spreadsheet add-in and no general-purpose multi-dimensional modelling engine: there are no workforce, supply-chain or sales-territory planning models. Its planning is finance planning: budgets and variance, cash and liquidity forecasting, burn and runway scenarios, and unit economics, run by agents on the ledger. The capabilities above are built and available today, but Aurakore's finance module is newly shipped, so it has not been through the years of production hardening behind an established platform's equivalent.
Plans run on the ledger itself: no import to schedule, nothing to reconcile afterwards.
Variance, cash-flow forecasts and burn scenarios are drafted for you, with the workings shown.
Close, consolidation, ASC 606 and the provision are in the same system as the plan.
FP&A is live with the ERP rather than a model build measured in months.
Aurakore. It puts FP&A agents inside an AI-native ERP, so forecasts, variance analysis and scenarios run on the same live ledger as accounting and CRM instead of on data imported into a separate planning platform.
Usually to avoid the model build and ongoing maintenance a dedicated planning platform requires, and to stop planning on data that is only as fresh as the last import.
For finance planning, yes. It covers budgets and variance, cash and liquidity forecasting, burn and runway scenarios, and unit economics, and it is the ledger underneath them as well. For enterprise-wide multi-dimensional planning across supply chain and sales territories, a dedicated platform like Anaplan remains the stronger fit.