How can
Financial Dashboard
s Drive Faster and Better Decisions? As CFOs increasingly become key players 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 Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard template shown below enables them and other users from the Accounting and Finance teams to experience near real time asset and liability trend analysis that help drive faster and better decisions.
Who uses
48 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 finance leaders and analysts with timely and concise Financial Dashboards. Companies use key features like the ones below to support their users with effective analysis that helps drive more informed investment decisions:
Example of a 48 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard to Streamline the Monthly Reporting Process[/caption] The 48 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard is a ready-to-use Financial Dashboard from the
Solver Marketplace.
A Brief Description of the
48 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard
Template Financial Dashboards like the one seen in the image above are interactive and parameter driven and typically contain sections with Asset and Liability tables as well as line charts. One of the important features that aid the user in the analysis process is the ability to select parameters such as year, period and company and immediately see charts update with analysis. 48 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboards are often used in conjunction with income statements, balance sheet and cash flow reports, budget models with cash flow modelling, as well as 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
- Trend analysis with four years of actual data as well as current year budget
- Interactive, sortable tables with asset and liability metrics at the GL account level
- Charts that are reactive to the GL account the user clicks on
Example of a 48 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard to Streamline the Monthly Reporting Process[/caption] The 48 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard is a ready-to-use Financial Dashboard from the
Solver Marketplace.
A Brief Description of the
48 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboard
Template Financial Dashboards like the one seen in the image above are interactive and parameter driven and typically contain sections with Asset and Liability tables as well as line charts. One of the important features that aid the user in the analysis process is the ability to select parameters such as year, period and company and immediately see charts update with analysis. 48 Month Balance Sheet Trend Dashboards are often used in conjunction with income statements, balance sheet and cash flow reports, budget models with cash flow modelling, as well as 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.
- Software evaluation and selection:
- Vendor Comparison and ROI (free interactive tool)
- Evaluating planning, budgeting and forecasting functionality
- Evaluating Financial Reporting functionality
- Evaluating Dashboard functionality
- Evaluating Data Warehouse functionality to achieve “one version of the truth”
- Demonstrations and other specific assets: Solver Tour Central
- Using third party analysts and consultants to aid in vendor selection
- Creating efficient processes:
December 27, 2021
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