Written by Nils R. | Dec 19, 2021 8:00:00 AM
How can
Financial Dashboard
s Drive Faster and Better Decisions? As CFOs increasingly focus on streamlining the Monthly Reporting Process, they must rely on modern self-service corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence (BI) tools. Using interactive Financial Dashboards like the 36 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard template shown below enables them and users from the Accounting and Finance teams to experience near real time balance sheet analysis that help drive faster and better decisions.
Who uses
36 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard
s and What are Some Key Analytical Features? In today’s fast-paced business environment, CFOs are under high pressure to supply end users like controllers and finance team members with timely and concise Financial Dashboards. Companies use key features like the ones below to support their users with effective analysis that helps drive smart financial decisions:
- Tables with assets and liabilities by account and sorting by amount
- Side-by-side comparisons of budgets and actuals
- Multi-year trend charts that update based on which account in the tables a user clicks on
The 36 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard template can be used as a key element of the Monthly Reporting process: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2560"]
Example of a 36 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard to Streamline the Monthly Reporting Process[/caption] The 36 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard is a ready-to-use Financial Dashboard from the
Solver Marketplace.
A Brief Description of the
36 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard
Template Financial Dashboards like the one seen in the image above are interactive and parameter driven and often contain sections with asset and liability metrics by account and interactive monthly trend charts. One of the important features that aid the user in the analysis process is the ability to select a balance sheet account and use the charts to instantly view variances and trends. 36 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboards are sometimes used in conjunction with profit and loss reports, balance sheet reports, cash flow statements and KPI dashboards.
Data Integration to Transaction Systems Most organizations these days want automated and streamlined
planning,
reporting and
analysis. However, many of the benefits described earlier rely on best of breed Corporate Performance Management (CPM) tools and/or Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities as well as data marts or data warehouses that use pre-built integrations to the organization’s ERP system. Oftentimes, they also need integrations to other key data sources like CRM, subscription systems, payroll tools, etc. Modern, cloud-based ERPs like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance (D365 Finance), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Sage Intacct, Acumatica, Netsuite and SAP have robust APIs which allow for dynamic integrations to CPM and BI tools that are fully automated and flexible to run on a schedule or on-demand.
Additional Resources to Aid with Research of Templates, CPM and BI Tools
- Templates from Solver that are pre-built and that work out-of-the-box using the Solver CPM cloud. Click here.
- Template examples: You find more than 500 CPM and BI Template examples here.
- Interactive Dashboard examples: Try Power BI dashboard templates from Solver here.
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