Who this is for: Accountants deciding which sections to include when building a report.
What you’ll learn: What every report section shows, so you can assemble the right report for each client.
Before you begin
- Sections are chosen in Edit Report Sections and can be reordered freely.
- You don’t need every section — a bookkeeping client might get a Simple P&L while a fractional-CFO client gets the full pack.
- Every report covers one company and one period.
Statements and summaries
- Executive Summary — revenue, cost of sales, gross profit, operating expenses, net income and cash, with prior-period comparisons and a profit margin rating.
- Revenue & Net Income Trend — a chart of revenue and operating profit over time.
- Monthly P&L Summary — a month-by-month table of revenue, cost of sales, gross profit, expenses and net income.
- Profit & Loss Statement — the full P&L for the last closed month, with every account.
- Profit & Loss — Year to Date — the P&L from the fiscal year start through the report month.
- Profit & Loss by Month — the full fiscal-year P&L with a column for each month.
- Profit & Loss — Year over Year — this year to date against the same period last year, with variance.
- Balance Sheet — assets, liabilities and equity.
- Cash Flow Statement — operating, investing and financing activities.
CFO analysis
- Cash Flow Analysis — operating, free and net cash flow with a cash-movement bridge and a reconciliation from opening to closing cash.
- Financial Ratios — gross and net margin, return on equity, current and quick ratio, debt to equity and working capital.
- KPI Summary — a scorecard of the KPIs you pick, grouped by perspective and scored against their targets.
- KPIs Explained — a plain-English appendix giving each KPI’s value, target, status and formula.
- Custom KPIs — your own KPIs, computed from the report’s own metrics.
- Budget vs Actual — the budget you set on the Budgeting tab against actuals, with variance, a year-to-date roll-up and a full-year projection.
- Expense Analysis — expense breakdown charts and the largest expense categories.
- Trends & Observations — plain-English notes on profitability, cash, operating cash flow, expenses, liabilities and gross profit.
- Forecast — a base, best and worst case projection, auto-filled from the Forecasting scenario you pick.
Narrative and closing
- Accountant Commentary — your narrative for the client, shown on the cover.
- Narrative / Text — free-form text you can place anywhere in the report.
- Disclaimer — the basis-of-preparation and limitations statement, which you can edit.
What happens next
Once you know which sections you want, add them in Edit Report Sections, or save the report as a template so you can reuse the same set for other clients.
Troubleshooting
- A ratio shows “N/M”. It isn’t meaningful for the period — for example, return on equity when equity is negative.
- Budget vs Actual is empty. No budget has been saved for that company and fiscal year yet.
- Forecast is empty. No forecast scenario has been built for the company on the Forecasting tab.