Purpose of Financial Dashboards for Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofits use Financial Dashboards to give managers an easy and user-friendly way to analyze financial performance. When used as part of good business practices in a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Executive department, an organization can improve and speed up its decisions and related strategies, and it can reduce the chances that managers miss important trends and variances.
Financial Dashboards for Nonprofit Organizations - Example Here is an example of a Financial Dashboard for Nonprofit Organizations to simplify analysis of revenues and expenses.
Who Uses This Type of Dashboard? The typical users of this type of dashboard are: Senior executives, financial managers, department heads. Other Reports Often Used in Conjunction with Financial Dashboards for Nonprofit Organizations Progressive Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Executive departments sometimes use several different Financial Dashboards, along with profit & loss reports, monthly financial trend reports, KPI dashboards, budgeting and forecasting models and other management and control tools.
Where Does the Data for Analysis Originate From? The Actual (historical transactions) data typically comes from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems like: Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) Finance, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP ByDesign, Acumatica, Netsuite and others. In analyses where budgets or forecasts are used, the planning data most often originates from in-house Excel spreadsheet models or from professional corporate performance management (CPM/EPM) solutions.
What Tools are Typically used for Reporting, Planning and Dashboards? Examples of business software used with the data and ERPs mentioned above are:
- Native ERP report writers and query tools
- Spreadsheets (for example Microsoft Excel)
- Corporate Performance Management (CPM) tools (for example Solver)
- Dashboards (for example Microsoft Power BI and Tableau)
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