Financial Dashboard Builder.

Build a short dashboard of the few numbers that matter, so you can read your financial health at a glance every month without wading through full statements.

After you can produce and read the two statements, in See Your True Financial Position. Fewer is better; pick the numbers that would warn you fastest if something were wrong.

The measures to watch each month

Cash on hand

Months of cash on hand (from the Months-of-Cash Calculator once you build it)

True available cash, free versus spoken for (a rough read now, exact once you build it in Master Restricted and Unrestricted Funds)

Money owed to you, and how overdue

Budget versus actual for the year, once you have a budget

Surplus or shortfall for the year so far

For each, where it comes from and who updates it

Set the refresh

The day each month the dashboard is updated

Who updates it

A dashboard is only useful if you look at it. Put its refresh on the calendar as a standing appointment, and read it before you make a money decision. If it grows past a single glance, cut it back; a wall of numbers is not a dashboard. Feeds the Board Financial Reporting Pack.

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