Written by Nils R. | Dec 23, 2021 8:00:00 AM
How can
Financial Dashboard
s Drive Faster and Better Decisions? As CFOs increasingly become key advisors in 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 48 Month Revenue Trend Dashboard template shown below enables them and users from the executive team to experience near real time revenue trend analysis that help drive faster and better decisions.
Who uses
48 Month Revenue 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 senior leaders and board 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 improved sales and liquidity planning:
- Trend analysis with four years of actual data as well as current year budget
- Ranking by revenue account and category
- Variance analysis with multi-year history and budgets
The 48 Month Revenue Trend Dashboard template can be used as a key element of the Monthly Reporting process: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2560"]
Example of a 48 Month Revenue Trend Dashboard to Streamline the Monthly Reporting Process[/caption] The 48 Month Revenue Trend Dashboard is a ready-to-use Financial Dashboard from the
Solver Marketplace.
A Brief Description of the
48 Month Revenue Trend Dashboard
Template Financial Dashboards like the one seen in the image above are interactive and parameter driven and typically contain sections with revenue reports by GL account and trend charts. One of the important features that aid the user in the analysis process is the ability to instantly zoom in on any revenue item by clicking on any row in the tables and see that item highlighted in the trend charts. 48 Month Revenue Trend Dashboards are often used in conjunction with budget models, financial statements, variance 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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