Top-performing CFOs, Controllers & Finance professionals have learned that influence over the business, has to be earned by continually meeting or exceeding business expectations. Trust must be earned by providing robust decision support information to senior management that can positively influence key business decisions. Yet many finance functions are struggling to provide the required level of business support, hampered by complex system architectures, poor-quality data, nonstandard processes, and nonaligned business metrics.
CFOs and Finance Departments need to base their firms’ strategies and plans on sophisticated analysis of business data from last month, last week, yesterday. But frustrating analytical tools slow down even the most diligent analyst.
Referring to Tableau, the CFO Magazine says, “Quite simply, it’s the best piece of software CFO has run across in years”.
With TABLEAU, Finance professionals can:
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Analyze revenue trends and profit fluctuations |
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Audit spending and key cost ratios by department and employee |
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Automate production of monthly P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow reports |
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Analyze performance of key metrics across sales, margins, and inventory |
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Benchmark the profitability of products, business units, and divisions |
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Utilize reports on expenditures by vendor across locations |
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Making Numbers Pop with Visual Analytics
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