Magnetic Boards for Budget Planning and Tracking

Plan, display, update and commuicate your budgeting picture through the year with these boards.

These simple, but amazingly effective magnetic budget planning and tracking boards keep your eye on the spending picture both in scope and detail and alert you to trouble in time to take corrective action before your accountant gives you a big "red ink surprise" at year end. They also alert you early to business opportunities in time to take advantage of them, and they communicate the real budget picture to all the spenders and promoters on your staff so everyone knows their ground before stepping out.

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12 Month Budget Tracker
Fiscal Year Magnetic Budget-Tracker

Budget activity for 12 mos. on 20 or 30 major line-items.

Eliminate year-end Surprises! View, manage, communicate and control budget activity for 12 months on 20 or 30 major budget line-items with up-to-the-minute color-coded status signals. You see each spending commitment with its current status using up to 3 color-coded magnet symbols that fit next to each month's line entry. Everything is magnetic and instantly movable so you can modify and refine the activity as it progresses. Available with a pull-down privacy screen or key-locking wall cabinet.
2 sizes
3x4', 20 line item rows
4x6' 30 line item rows

Milestones Plan & Progress
Milestones Project Management Plan & Progress Tracker

Post your project overview goal and progress at each milestone for an instant color-coded overview of your entire project management picture

Do you have multiple projects, programs or task categories to manage? Post your goal and progress at each milestone for an instant color-coded overview of your entire project management picture.

This board lets you post a stated goal at each milestone but also post the progress and status of the project management line item underneath the goal with room for a short narrative.

4 sizes:
3x4' 10 rows, 8 milestones
4x6' 14 rows, 14 milestones
4x8' 14 rows, 21 milestones
4x12' 14 rows, 34 milestones

Budget Tracker Plan & Progress
12 Mo. BudgetTracker Plan & Progress

Monthly spending plan in one row and performance in the shaded row below.

View, update, control and communicate the activity of 15 or 21 major budget line-items showing your month to month spending plan in one row and performance against the plan in the shaded row below. You see each spending commitment with its current status using up to 3 color-coded magnet symbols that fit next to each month's line entry. Everything is magnetic and instantly movable so you can modify and refine the activity as it progresses.
2 sizes 3x4', 15 line item rows. 4x6', 21 line item rows

T-DexTracker ™ T-Card Board Kits
All-purpose T-DexTracker magnetic column format whiteboard with built-in T-Card file slots.

These boards have numbered T-Card file slots machined right through the face of the magnetic, dry-erase steel whiteboard, position-registered with the printed columnar board design (patent pending). You can display task assignments, items to-do, project stages, staffing or any detailed information you want in specified columns. You not only see everything, but can just lift the 5"h x 3-5/8"w T-Cards to read each item's details. 5 sizes. Ready-to-use kit with everything needed to operate it.

Critical Path Mapping Kits
CPM-ProjectBoard Magnetic Critical Path Mapping Kit.

like earlier Gantt and PERT charts, gives your team the tool to break complex projects down and find the fastest, easiest, most efficient path to completion.

Critical path project mapping board targets finish dates, prioritizes activites and shows the roadblocks and bottlenecks while motivating your team and meeting deadlines.. You see and track at a glance the critical path of work to be done, work under way, who's doing it and work critical to the project's on-time completion. Big 3x3" magnetic cardholders in 5 colors show the activities and their position on the project map timelines with the critical path plotted with bold red tape. Tailor, refine and update the map layout to show your exact critical path project image.

Giant Year Magnetic Calendar Planner
Giant Year® 365-Day Magnetic Perpetual Blank Yearly Calendar Planner

See every color-coded plan, activity and time commitment for instant action and updating. It keeps your team looking at the full picture all year long.

The classic Blank calendar format we are all familiar with. Post it with dry-erase markers in 4 colors, or use the optional magnetic calendar cardholders in up to 50 color-combination codes and magnetic status signals in 10 colors. No matter how detailed or intense your schedule, you can instantly locate the item by its color codes. To make changes, just move the magnets. Porcelain-like heat-fused printed MagnaLux® steel working surface. Not a plastic or paper laminate! Built for a lifetime of daily use.
2 Sizes (hxw):
4x8' with 4x2-1/2" day space
4x12' with 4x3-3/8" day space

Giant-Quarter ™ Daily Planner
GiantQuarter 3-Month Magnetic Perpetual Blank Calendar Daily Planner

with alternate 3-shift version and 12 month broad planning section. Holds 6 to 12 events daily.

The GiantQuarter planning calendar lets you organize, update and visually show what's happening daily for 3 months with a 12 month view across the bottom section. You can make instant changes, color-group similar events, show each item's status with colored magnet signals and share your information with everyone involved. Heat-fused printed MagnaLux® porcelain-like steel for a lifetime of stainfree daily use. We offer it here in both a full day version and in a 3 shift-daily version.Size: 4'h x 6'w. 2 Styles: full open days or 3-shift days.

Giant HalfYear ™ Daily Planner
Giant HalfYear 6-Month Magnetic Daily Perpetual Blank Calendar Planner

with alternate 3-shift version and 12 month broad planning section. Holds 3 to 6 events daily.

Use this 6 month planning calendar to concentrate on daily activities while projecting and refining your plans and time commitments for the immediate future. There is also a 12 month section across the bottom of he board for longer range plans. Fast and easy to set up and update. Just move magnets to make changes. Write on the board too with the dry-erase pens in 4 colors. Size: 4'h x 6'w. <2 Styles: full open days or 3-shift days.

Agenda-Issue Meeting-Boards &trade;
Agenda-Issue Meeting-Boards

Post meeting agenda issues on this 4x6' Meeting-Board where it can be viewed by all the attendees before and during the meeting, it will visually rivet their attention on each issue and hold their concentration through the discussion. It lets each attendee participate in visibly posting the discussion notes while also prompting each to think about the upcoming items and their role in the discussion. In a nutshell, it add eyes as well as ears to the meeting communication job. 4x6' in open row or ShadeLine alternate shaded row format, If left up after the meeting, it becomes a great follow-up accountability tool.

Landscapers Production StatusTracker &trade;
Production StatusTracker

See each crew's work hours available, planned and worked daily for the week, with accumulated totals.

Are you getting the return on your weekly work-hour investment that you expect? Quickly spot and control wasted or under-utilized work-hours keeping your operation lean, efficient and flexible for maximum productivity. Includes a spreadsheet PC template to post and calculate each day's updated figures, printing an image of the updated board as a posting guide. 3 styles, 4 capacities

365 Day Year Master
365-Day Budget YearMaster® Dateline Planning Calendar

31 days across x 12 months down format.

Plan, organize, schedule, instantly update and view a grand panorama of your budget management year's plans and activities displayed as a 31 day dateline, with room to post long range activities, day-by-day details and make instant changes by just moving color-coded magnets. Write on the board too. This is often used with our BigYear 52 week line-item schedule. YearMaster® comes in
2 size capacities (hxw): 4x6' for up to 6 items daily and
4x12' for up to 14 items daily.

Key Results Tracker
12 Mo. Key Results Tracker

View and compare month-to-month key performance line items in your operation.

Key numbers are more effective management tools if you can quickly view them, share them with associates, compare with budget figures and each other, track, predict and control their movements through the year.
3 size scales (hxw)
3x4' 28 rows, read from 4 ft.
4x4' 38 rows, read from 4 feet
4x6' 29 rows, read from 10 ft.

Internal Audit Schedule
Internal Audit Schedule

Visually schedule, track and control the internal audit stages for management line-items thru implementation and review of corrective actions.

Columns across read (L-R):
SECTION (with room to post section name in the column heading), AUDIT NO., AUDIT DATE, AUDIT (subdivided into 2 columns reading SCHEDULED, PERFORMED), AUDIT REPORT (subdivided into 2 columns reading ISSUED, RETURNED), CORRECTIVE ACTION (subdivided into 2 columns reading IMPLEMENTED, EFFECTIVE).
2 sizes hxw
3x4' with 20 rows
4x4' with 28 rows

Chart View Boards
Magnetic ChartView® Boards

Quickly display and change paper charts, without touching the charts themselves.

Use them to keep, display and transport paper charts clean and fresh with no dog-ears, creases or wrinkles! Eliminates messy tapes and sharp tacks! Kits also include write-on tools and charting supplies.
Kits for 3 chart sizes
9"x12", 12"x18" and 18"x24".
9 Board sizes to display up to 9 charts.
Magnetic ChartJackets® included.Patented.

Do-Done &reg; Step Tracker &reg;
Do-Done® Magnetic StepTracker®

Turn the yellow magnet over to show green when a task is done. Red = trouble.

This is great for ongoing tasks or programs requiring step by step items to be completed. Save countless hours of phone calls, memos, report-reading and questions each year trying to get status reports, etc. It's efficient, handy, effective and one glance keeps everyone up-to-the-minute. You'll find your people gathering around this StepTracker to hold "board meetings" to review the situation. One of our most popular board systems.
5 Sizes
19, 35, 50, 100 or 150 line item rows

ShadeLine &reg; Boards
ShadeLine® ChartMaker® Alternate-Bar Whiteboards

Create your own chart; tape vertical lines over the shaded bars.

One of our most popular boards. These alternating bars give your white board that "information-age look", and are easier to read line-to-line. like computer-paper. The gentle gray shaded bars are heat-fused printed, smooth and flat, into the MagnaLux® porcelain-like steel non-glare whiteboard surface designed to stay clean and like-new for a lifetime of daily use. Not a laminate.
6 board sizes: hxw: 2'x3', 3'x4', 4'x6', 4'x8', 4'x10', 4'x12'
5 row spacings: 3/4"h, 1"h, 1-1/4"h, 1-1/2"h or 2"h

All Purpose Master Planners
MasterPlanner® All-Purpose Kits

Rectangle grids with magnets to fit.

Create your own magnetic schedule, planner or organizer with these kits. Select kits from 6 different grid sizes, each with magnets to fit the selected grid cell size plus a comprehensive selection of charting supplies.
5 board sizes:
(hxw): 2x3', 3x4', 4x6', 4x8' and 4x10'
6 Rectangle grid sizes (hxw):
1/2x2", 1x2", 1x3", 1-3/8x4", 2x5", and 1-3/8x8"

All Purpose Action Planner Kits
ActionPlanner® All-purpose White Board kits

A kit for you and your imagination! Background grid with magnets & chart supplies

Select a board kit with a 1/2" or 1" scale background square grid, or plain white, then create your own special magnetic system using the kit's comprehensive selection of magnets and charting materials.
6 board sizes (hxw):: 3x4', 4x6', 4x8', 4x10', 4x12'.
3 board styles: 1/2" grid, 1" grid, or plain white.

Position Control Organizational Charts
Position-Control Magnetic Staff Organizational Charts

Personnel and positions at-a-glance

See the full picture of your organizational chart structure with all positions displayed with their status: OCCUPIED, VACANT, BUDGETED, PLANNED, PROPOSED, or any other status designation you want to show. Display up to 50 color-combination codes to show position levels, rank, salary, authority or your own code. 10 magnet signal colors show the current status of each position.

2 scales: read from 3 ft, or from 10 ft.
Sizes for 40 to 900 positions.

Tack Free Bulletin Boards
TackFree® Fabric Contour Bulletin Boards

Perfect document alignment with patented transparent Grip-a-Sheet® document holders

Quickly and neatly post paper documents and notices with these patented transparent Grip-A-Sheet® document holder bars mounted on a handsome FabricTack® bulletin boards. Documents slide-up, grip tight and release with a firm tug. You can view notices with no hidden copy or distortion. The handsome radius board style is available in 6 designer fabric colors.
10 Sizes, hxw: 18"x36", 18"x48", 18"x72", 30"x24",
30"x36", 30"x48", 30"x72", 4'x3', 4'x4' and 4'x6'
Special sizes to order. Patented.

Grip-a-Sheet &reg; display bars
Grip-A-Sheet® transparent sheet display bars

Use them on walls, doors, cabinets, any flat surface.

Transparent slide-up document holder bars display the entire sheet without distortion. Use them on walls, doors, cabinets, any flat surface.
6 sizes: 9", 19", 22", 34", 46" and 70" long. Screw-mount or magnetic-backed for steel surfaces
Patented

Magnetic Chart Jackets &reg;
Transparent Magnetic Display Chart Jackets®

Transport, display and change paper charts without touching them! Patented.

Chart Jackets® hold letter, ledger, tabloid and poster sized charts. Eliminates messy unreliable tapes and tacks and keeps charts from getting dog-eared, wrinkled, creased, droopy and soiled. Magnet-backed models cling to steel white boards or any steel surface to keep charts sharp, neat and professional!.
4 Chart Jacket® sizes hold paper charts
9"x12", 12"x18", 18"x24" and 24"x36" Patented

MagnaSnap &reg; Stick-Anywhere Paper Clamps
MagnaSnap® Stick-Anywhere Magnetic Paper Clamps

adhesive-backed clamps grip up to 10 sheets of paper between two tension-hinged magnets

Use MagnaSnaps® wherever you post notes, papers and reminders. The foam-adhesive back adheres to walls, doors, cabinets, windows, shelf-edges, lockers, plastic, glass, metal, wood or any smooth clean surface, indoors or out. 2 Sizes::Note size and sheet size. 11 colors. Write-on surface. Patented

Extra Strong WakTack &reg; Magnets
WakTack® Super Strong Rare Earth Magnets

Tack 10 sheets of paper and hold up to 6 oz. of keys on steel surfaces. Many uses.

Made of nickel-plated neodymium rare-earth magnet, permanently embedded in our unique patented multi-purpose non-breakable holder. They're easy to grip, turn, hang things over, label and thread things through it, They cling very tight to any steel surface (except some grades of stainless), They come with PC programmable labels and keying template for preparing the labels that fit into the recessed top for numbering, lettering or dedicating the magnet.
10 bright colors. 5/8"x5/8"x3/4"h, .
Non-breakable unique EZ-Grip design. Patented
One of our most popular magnet products:
You'll love them!"
Ships immediately from stock.

Giant Month Planners
GiantMonth 31 day Magnetic Action Perpetual Blank Monthly Calendars

with room to post a good day's activities.

These Perpetual Blank Monthly Calendars are ideal if you have a lot to plan, schedule and say each day, want to read it across the room or use your monthly calendar as a daily bulletin board. It show everyone on your team exactly what is happing each day of the month.
3 sizes, hxw:
3x4' with day space 6 x 6-1/2"
4x6' with day space 8-1/2 x 10"
4x8' with day space 8-1/2 x 13"

U-Design-It &trade; Chart Maker Kits
ChartMaker® All-purpose kits

Create your own layout by taping vertical columns over the printed horizontal lines.

Tape vertical lines over the board's horizontal printed lines to create your own special dry-erase magnetic board layout with the columns exactly the number, size and position you want. Then create your title and column headings with the press-on lettering, animate it with the optional magnets and write on it with the dry-erase pens. The heat-fused printed lines are designed to last a lifetime. One of our most popular systems. 5 board sizes, hxw: 2x3', 3x4', 4x6', 4x8' and 4x10'

Modular Months in Tracks
Month-to-Month Modular Track Magnetic Perpetual Blank Monthly Calendar

with Individual One-Month Sections.

Mount this Perpetual Blank Monthly Calendar on one or more walls and expand it to any length. Each section is a separate one-month planning calendar framed heat-fused printed porcelain-like steel whiteboard. At month-end, just interchange the sections for a continuous left-to-right reading calendar. Individual months lift out of the satin-aluminum wall tracks so you can work on them at your desk and reinsert them when done or hang them separately with their concealed wall hangers. Comes ready to use with boards, tracks, write-on tools, chart supplies and optional magnets.
10 models: 2, 3, 4 or 12 months x 3 Heights: 2', 3' or 4' high.

T Card Visible Files
T-Card Files

Combines the visibility of a magnetic board with the in-depth data and hands-on access of a card file

Ideal for visibly displaying detailed task cards, lists, project details etc. Shipped assembled and ready for use with cards and accessories. Uses T-Cards 5"h x 3-5/8"h that can be displayed with 1" or 1/2" visible top edges in 58 slot panels.
7 file sizes (35-1/4"h) x 4" to 77" w holding from 58 to 1160 T-Cards. Larger capacities to order.
Also available on a Roll-Around Stand, Rotating Kiosk or hinged swing-panels.

RotoCube &reg; Tower Rotating Bulletin
RotoCube® 19" Rotating Kiosk Bulletin Whiteboard Tower

No walls to display information? Try these unique patented rotating RotoCubes®.

They display information right where it will be seen and read - in lobbies, hallways, lunchrooms, waiting rooms, factory work stations, etc., wherever people work, pass by or congregate. They display an incredible 24 square feet of information, same as a 4x6 ft board in just a 19" square. (Choose from 24 different side panels, all 4 sides the same or mixed.) 78" high, it rotates quietly in a 27" circle in either direction with a finger touch. Fits in tight corners! One of our most popular visible communicators. Click the image to order your own special RotoCube®. Patented.

RotoCube &reg; 34"w Rotating Island Bulletin Towers
RotoCube® 34" Rotating Kiosk Bulletin Islands

A full wall (42 square feet) of plain or printed whiteboards, fabric or cork tack bulletin boards, planning calendars, MagnaMaps photo and card displays

It turns with a finger touch in either direction in a 48" turning circle. Order it with 4 sides same or different. 19 side panel choices. Design it the way you want it and order it here online. Display information wherever people work, gather or pass-by. It accommodates several viewers at one time without crowding. Casters optional. Click the image to order your own special Island RotoCube®. Patented.

Production Efficiency
Production Efficiency-Tracker

Keep your eye on production goals and performance figures hour by hour with this write-on magnetic board production tool.

24 hour production rate tracking with 31-day & 12-month summary graphs and action assignments on one 4' x 6' board. Post both problem notes and action assignments. Everything stays in view for evaluation and analysis by everyone involved through the full day cycle. It not only also lets you chart both defects and production figures on 31 day graphs but also gives you the long view with comparison 12 month graphs. Magnet status signals in 10 colors can flag trouble needing attention or follow up actions.
4x6'

In-Out
In-Out Whiteboards

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Thermometer Charts
Fast & Accurate Magnetic ThermoCharts®

with unique numbered "mercury magnets"

Make dramatic, accurate, quick-change magnetic thermometer charts with these unique die-cut, scale-numbered Mercury-Magnets For really effective communication impact, a clearly focused and universally recognized visual thermometer image is all-powerful and guarantees the message will be quickly absorbed by all viewers. Includes press-on removable lettering. One of our most popular systems. ©1997
5 sizes hxw:
3x1' with 1 thermometer
3x2' with 1 thermometer
3x2' with 2 thermometers
3x4' with 3 thermometers
3x4' with 4 thermometers

Safety Cross Motivator
SafetyCross® Workplace Safety Interactive Motivational Sign

Pride in workplace safety "Comes Alive" when workers build and take ownership of a solid Green Magnetic SafetyCross®.

Fill in your workplace safety signs each week with the green, red or yellow magnet to show accident-free, lost time or medical incident. Just one red or yellow "accident" magnet can spoil the solid-green accident-free SafetyCross®, but it's an incentive to improve the next one. Everyone is involved in workplace safety every day and everyone wins! One of our most popular board systems. Thousands in use. Design ©1988
4 Formats: 31 days, 52 wks., 12 mos. or 366 days
2 Sizes: read from 10 ft. or 50 ft.
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Plain Magnetic Whiteboards
Plain Magnetic Whiteboards

with a porcelain-like steel dry-erase whiteboard surface

The porcelain-like steel heat-fused, steel non-glare whiteboard working surface is designed for a lifetime of daily use, staying clean and like new when used as directed. Kits include write-on tools, board maintenance supplies and optional magnets. Not a plastic film laminate. It will not bubble, crack, peel, fade, chip, warp or build up indelible marker ink stains!
12 sizes, hxw: 18x24" 24x18" 2x3' 3x2' 3x4', 4x3' 4x4' 4x5' 4x6' 4x8' 4x10' 4x12' 4x16', Special sizes to order.

Custom Printed Steel Whiteboards
Custom White Boards and MagnaMaps®

Your own special magnetic dry-erase whiteboard full color or black and white design heat-fused printed specially for you.

The MagnaLux® porcelain-like steel with our special FusoGraphic heat-fused printed working surface is designed for a lifetime of daily use, staying clean and like new. (NOT a film, plastic or laminated surface and no decals or taped lines. Plastic surfaces do not last with daily use). It's easy to order. Also custom maps and huge map library. Ships in 3 business days or less after proof OK. Thousands in use worldwide. Includes write-on tools and board maintenance supplies.
Any size up to 4' x 16' in single framed boards. Larger sizes available in sections and also available combined with other display options.