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Good financial reporting gives a simple and clear overview of your businesses cash flow, health and direction.
Excellent financial reporting gives you this information instantly, instead of weeks-old reports.
BI Builders financial reporting service gives you consistent, accurate and fresh reports. It all starts with properly identifying reporting requirements, business metrics, and reporting software.
The problem is information can be fragmented across the business, and in various cash flow, income statements and balance sheets. These in turn are probably separate from sales forecasts, and production numbers. The only way to see your business at a glance is to start tying these systems together. Add a dash of automation, and you can begin to uncover hidden opportunities and threats for your business. Take a look at some of the sample finance dashboards below to see what's possible.
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This is a standard financial income statement, rendered in an interactive dashboard with at a glance performance and breakdown by region (click to view) |
This is a quarterly revenue forecast dashboard. It will be updated daily, as sales reps update their prospects. (click to view) |
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Click to watch video of a CFO who gets the new information he needs in minutes, without disrupting his team or IT. |
This dashboard lets you ask the question "What-if?", showing the effect on net income as you change variables like cost of goods sold (click to view) |
In the more simple case, business intelligence tools can be used to pull information from a single system, perform automatic calculations, and present the finance team with information that they can interact with. Everyone can keep an eye on the basic, bread-and-butter information without manual analysis.
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A back office dashboard showing Days Sales Outstanding, Deferred Revenue, Working Capital and the like. How much of your cash is stuck in AR? |
A debt dashboard, showing D/E. TIE, and other ratios, calculated over various intervals |
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A simple visualization of profitability, showing earnings, revenue and income on a monthly basis. |
Return on Assests, Equity, Investment and other variables, shown monthly, quarterly and annually. |
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Burn rate, pro-forma income, EBITDA and core earnings. |
Click any image to see the dashboard. Once on the dashboard, click around and try it out! |
The BI Builders finance reporting consultants will work with you to find the solution that will turn your data into actionable information. If you need a few quick reports or dashboards built, we can provide that service (sometimes remotely). If your data needs work, in terms of quality and integration, we'll work with you and your IT department to plan and implement a complete solution.
Either way, the first step is a businses assessment, and a proof-of-concept. So contact us; we'll talk about what you need and what we can do.
See it work on your data. Contact us for a free customized dashboard.
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