Management Reporting and KPIs for Finance and Accounting

As an accountant, analyst, controller or CFO your job doesn't end with the financial reports. You must provide insight into operational performance if your organization is to succeed. But stepping up to the role of business advisor/strategist is no easy task. The data you need is likely spread across different business systems (ERP, CRM, manufacturing and others) and there is no easy way to bring it all together. Calculating KPIs and creating reports becomes a laborious process of cutting, pasting and linking of data in spreadsheets, finally producing reports that have limited impact because data they reflect is weeks old.

So how can you proactively provide insight to important business dilemmas: What was our most profitable product line? What are our sales by region? Can I see margin by project? How can we cut cost from our supply chain? Well there is a way.

Indicee Has The Perfect Solution!

Many accountants, analysts, controllers and CFOs are kicking their monthly spreadsheet habit and using Indicee as a fast way to analyze operational data, monitor KPIs and identify trends. Indicee's online reporting and analysis solution makes it quick and easy to combine and analyze data and then publish the results.

  • Free up time for valuable analysis by updating your reports in minutes, rather than days, with Indicee's fast upload and refresh process
    • Need to update your findings or add a new angle to your analysis? With Indicee, don’t worry about spending hours rebuilding your spreadsheets or waiting for help from your IT department. Instead, simply upload the latest data files from your business systems and you are good to go
  • Increase the relevance of the reports you produce with daily or weekly analysis of critical data
    • Indicee allows you to directly access your mission critical data and combine it in a way that makes it easy to analyze – even if the data lives in different systems. When reports can be updated in minutes, producing them daily or weekly becomes feasible - providing the business with very timely and relevant information
  • Improve the accuracy and reliability of your business information with a simple update process that replaces the error prone approach of cutting and pasting data in spreadsheets
    • Creating reports in spreadsheets can be a very error prone process; repeated cutting, pasting, linking and creating forumlae can gradually introduce inaccuracies into business data and undermine the value of your work. With Indicee's simple update process you simply upload your latest export files from your business systems eliminating the potential for human error
  • Analyze trends more easily by building your monthly data in Indicee
    • Do you find yourself wanting to identify trends impacting your business but find yourself stuck because your current system only spits out point-in-time snapshots? Indicee allows you to view data over multiple time periods for easy comparisons and trending analysis
  • Enhance the insight you produce with multidimensional analysis in Indicee that requires simple English language questions instead of a cryptic query language
    • Multidimensional analysis is powerful but can be intimidating especially if you are required to learn some cryptic query language. With Indicee, you are able to use plain language questions to get the answers you seek. Drilling into the data to uncover further insight is a breeze compared to more traditional Report Writer programs
  • Improve efficiency when publishing your reports and analysis with Indicee's secure online sharing mechanism
    • Today, for many, sharing reports with their key stakeholders is a matter of sending a large, unsecured email attachment. This is highly risky and inconvenient. Indicee eliminates these problems by allowing stakeholders to log in to a secure website to view the latest version of the reports. This also allows you to identify who has accessed your reports enabling you to send reminders to any stakeholders if necessary

Step up to your role of business advisor/strategist by using Indicee to monitor critical metrics, including profitability, cash flow, and sales. Use Indicee to identify key revenue and cost drivers, helping to optimize supply chain, drive operational efficiency and maximize sales. Improve the quality of budgeting and forecasting by using Indicee to track actuals in near real-time to improve estimates. Investigate issues by drilling down to understand variances in margin and revenues and manage cash flows by monitoring cash and receivables.

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