The two editions are completely identical in every respect
(in fact have the same User Manual and the same ON LINE help) but the
Studio Edition has additional features which would be of interest
primarily to a large organization or the power user of this product.
Export/Import data to spread sheets, databases, accounting systems.
This feature allows you to export the chart budget data into a spread
sheet where you could then create a cash flow model. You could also export
budget data down to the detail level and do analysis over many budgets.
Cross budget comparisons.
Both programs allow you to compare a budget and some previous version of
itself, i.e., a five week and a six week budget. Studio also allows you to
compare two budgets prepared separately, by allowing you to import one
budget into the compare mode of the other.
Powerful and targeted data manipulation:
the MODIFY COMMAND. This Studio only command allows you to search the
budget for a class of lines (e.g., all IATSE CREW) and selectively apply a
change to a specific column (e.g., the hourly pay rate increased by 6%
when a contract changes).
Managing a complex template.
Since TBW allows you to create a budget with up to 400 codes, the studio
edition provides a number of code management tools: sort codes, pack
codes, validate codes; and perhaps the most useful: populate codes, an
option which automatically puts computed codes into the budget form for
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