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GL Dashboard – Expense Benchmarking
Expense Benchmarking Dashboards to Streamline the Monthly Reporting Process
How can Financial Dashboards Drive Faster and Better Decisions? As CFOs increasingly become key advisors in the Monthly Reporting Process, they must rely on modern self-service xFP&A and business intelligence (BI) tools. Using interactive Financial Dashboards like the Expense Benchmarking Dashboard template shown below enables them and users from the finance and executive teams to benchmark near real time expense metrics that help drive faster and better decisions.
Who uses Expense Benchmarking Dashboards and What are Some Key Analytical Features? In today’s fast-paced business environment, CFOs are under high pressure to supply end users like analysts and controllers with timely and concise Financial Dashboards. Companies use key features like the ones below to support their users with effective analysis that helps drive expense management and profit optimization:
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 extended financial planning and analysis (xFP&A) 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 xFP&A and BI tools that are fully automated and flexible to run on a schedule or on-demand.
Who uses Expense Benchmarking Dashboards and What are Some Key Analytical Features? In today’s fast-paced business environment, CFOs are under high pressure to supply end users like analysts and controllers with timely and concise Financial Dashboards. Companies use key features like the ones below to support their users with effective analysis that helps drive expense management and profit optimization:
- Year-to-date (YTD) expense views with the selected business unit benchmarked against the average of all business units
- Chart comparing Year-to-Date (YTD) Actual and Budgets for the chosen business unit with the average of all units
- Monthly chart comparing Actual and Budgets for the chosen business unit with the average of all units
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 extended financial planning and analysis (xFP&A) 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 xFP&A and BI tools that are fully automated and flexible to run on a schedule or on-demand.
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