Overview

Management dashboards, one per reader

The month at a glance, with what needs attention first. The CEO, the board and each department head can open on a dashboard of their own, built from the same figures.

Default, a view of the CFO Foundry report with Morning View, Key insights, Forward look, Commercial snapshot, Trend, Composition, Cash cycle & ratios and YTD summary.
  • Morning View
  • Key insights
  • Forward look
  • Commercial snapshot
  • Trend
  • Composition
  • Cash cycle & ratios
  • YTD summary

Meridian is a fictional demo company. All figures are sample data.

Key questions

Who sees what?

Each reader opens on the dashboard set for them: a CEO flash, a board view, a department head's view. Every panel on it is one the report already has.

How did the month go?

Eight cards show revenue, gross profit, EBITDA margin, net income, net cash, available liquidity, net working capital and utilisation for the latest month, each with its change on the month before.

What needs attention first?

Key insights sit directly under the cards, the most severe first: a sharp fall in revenue, a thin margin, a short liquidity runway, a jump in working capital.

The Morning View, and a dashboard per reader

Eight KPI cards with traffic-light status, month-on-month change and twelve-month trends. Each reader can have a dashboard of their own, such as a CEO flash or a board view, built from the same figures.

Traffic Lights
Green / amber / red status on every card. Thresholds tuned for IT services.
MoM Deltas
Month-over-month change, coloured by its traffic light.
Dashboards per Reader
Sections chosen per reader. Default, CEO Flash, Board and Department Head in the demo.

Dashboard

KPIs
  • Revenue
  • Gross Profit
  • EBITDA Margin
  • Net Income
  • Net Cash
  • Avail. Liquidity
  • NWC
  • Utilisation
  • FY Revenue (projected)
  • FY EBITDA (projected)
  • 26W Ending Cash
  • Open AR
  • Weighted Pipeline
  • Client Concentration
  • Revenue (YTD)
  • EBITDA Margin % (YTD)
  • Gross Margin % (YTD)
  • Adj. EBITDA (YTD)
  • DSO
  • DPO
  • Trade working capital
  • Current Ratio
  • Free Cash Flow
  • FCF Yield %
  • EBITDA
  • EBITDA %
  • Adj. EBITDA
  • Adj. EBITDA %
  • Rule of 40
  • Realistic hours
  • Billed hours
  • Cost / capacity hour
  • Break-even rate
  • Charged / hour
  • Margin / billed hour
Charts
  • FY revenue & EBITDA
  • EBITDA margin %
  • Revenue by service line · invoiced
  • Pipeline by stage · all forward years
  • Cost Structure
  • Profitability

Platform

  • Dashboards per Reader: A dashboard per reader, such as a CEO flash or a board view, built from the same figures.

Your Own Dashboards

In the operator app, a dashboard is assembled from sections. A section is ready-made, such as the Morning View or client retention, or holds single panels the report already has: one Morning View card, the top clients, the pipeline, utilisation by department. Each panel looks exactly as it does on its own view.

The demo group carries a CEO Flash, a Board and a Department Head dashboard beside Default. Without logins, they appear as tabs on the dashboard. With logins, each reader opens on their own, and a panel from a view they are not granted is left out of their copy.

Default: the Morning View and its traffic lights

The dashboard opens on the Morning View: eight cards for the latest month. Revenue, gross profit, EBITDA margin and net income are the month's own figures. Net cash and net working capital are the balances at the month-end. Available liquidity is net cash plus the undrawn part of the credit lines, shown as a multiple of average monthly revenue.

Each card carries a status dot in green, amber or red, and the change on the month before takes the same colour.

Once a budget for the year is locked, an EBITDA vs Budget card follows the EBITDA margin, for the month and the year to date. It can be placed on any custom dashboard, and without a locked budget it is left out.

Key insights and the forward look

Key insights are written from the month's figures, each with the amount it refers to: a sharp move in revenue or in net working capital, a thin or negative EBITDA margin, a short liquidity runway, net cash falling month after month, low utilisation, a gross margin that dropped. Red comes before amber. Three are shown, and Show more opens the rest.

With a pipeline in the data, a forward look follows: the projected revenue and EBITDA for the current fiscal year, and the cash at the end of the 26-week forecast.

The Board Deck, a PowerPoint written with every group build, states the same month: its cards and key insights are the dashboard's own, followed by the P&L, cash and the 26-week forecast, working capital and people.

Terms

Morning View
The eight cards at the top of the dashboard, for the latest month reported.
MoM
Month over month: the change on the month before.
Available Liquidity
Net cash plus the undrawn part of the credit lines.
Utilisation
The share of the delivery departments' sellable time that is billed.
Rule of 40
Revenue growth on the same months of the prior year plus the EBITDA margin, both year to date.
YTD
Year to date: from the start of the fiscal year to the month shown.
All Terms

Data sources

  • The monthly trial balance of each entity and the account mapping
  • The credit lines entered in the mapping, for available liquidity
  • Headcount and hours exports, for utilisation and the rates
  • The revenue history and the pipeline, for the service lines and the forward look
  • The EBITDA adjustments, for adjusted EBITDA
  • The locked budget of the year, for the EBITDA vs Budget card

FAQ

Which KPIs belong in a monthly management report?

For a services company: revenue, gross profit, EBITDA margin and net income for performance, net cash and available liquidity for cash, net working capital for the cash the operations tie up, and utilisation for the use of the team. The dashboard opens on exactly these eight.

How does the dashboard show whether a figure is healthy?

Each card carries a status light in green, amber or red, set for an IT services company. When a figure such as the EBITDA margin turns weak or negative, a key insight names it with its amount.

How current is the dashboard?

It shows the latest month with a trial balance in the data room. A new month's trial balance and a rebuild bring it up to date.

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