Most finance reporting is a month-end pack that arrives two weeks late. This template is the daily version: the handful of figures a finance lead or owner checks every morning, and the two charts a board asks for every quarter. It reads from your accounting system, so the numbers match the ledger by definition.
Connect Xero, QuickBooks or your ERP, add the budget from a spreadsheet, and the budget-vs-actual view builds itself. Bank balances and open invoices come straight from the ledger; the 13-week forecast is a calculated series from receivables ageing and known payables.
Salary and margin columns are usually restricted with column-level permissions, so department heads see their own budget line without seeing anyone else’s. See what a gross margin figure should and should not include before you publish it.
- Finance leads who want to stop building the Friday cash spreadsheet by hand.
- Owners who check the bank balance every morning and want the context around it.
- Department heads who need their own budget line, updated, without seeing the whole ledger.