Choose the month you report to and all of Easyclose recalculates: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and your dashboard. Put a comparison next to it, last year, budget or the previous period, and the heatmap instantly colours where things are going well and where they are not. Below you can see it in action, no explanations, just the screen moving along.
The reporting month is your cut-off point. Set it to March and you see the figures up to and including March; set it to November and everything jumps along: the KPIs, the tables, the charts. No more updating separate reports, you move one slider.
The cursor drags the reporting month from March to November. Watch the revenue KPI and the chart move along.
Just that one month, the year so far, or an estimate for the full year? Month shows that month on its own. YTD adds everything up to your reporting month. LE, the forecast, joins your actuals so far to your budget for the rest of the year. Same table, three views.
Three buttons, three totals in the same column. The cursor taps Month, YTD and LE; the total counts along and the forecast fills up with budget.
Tick what you want to compare against: last year, your budget or the previous period. The comparison column slides in next to your actuals and the difference appears, as a percentage, in euros or both. No exporting to a spreadsheet, it is right there.
Tick vs Budget: the budget column slides into view and the difference column fills up. Then the cursor switches between percentages, euros and both.
Switch on the heatmap and every month column is coloured by how well or badly it went, compared with your budget, with last year, with the previous month, or relative within the visible range. The larger the variance, the stronger the colour. Your eye jumps straight to the spot that needs attention.
The heatmap switches on and the cells colour in a diagonal wave. The cursor changes the reference from Budget to Last year and the pattern recolours.
Under every KPI and chart sits a footer with the figures behind it: your best and weakest month, your revenue against budget, the comparison amount in euros. Unfold the entity footer and you see how each BV contributes to the total. The answer to "why is this the case" is already there.
The cursor unfolds the footer under the KPI: best month, weakest month, revenue against budget. Then the entity breakdown unfolds with a bar per BV.
Start by copying last year, drag a cell across with times 1.1, or let an empty cell copy the previous month. Work consolidated or drill down to a single account, the finest level wins. Social security charges as a percentage of staff costs? One line. You can look up to five years ahead, and your budget comes back as the forecast in your P&L and balance sheet.
The cursor drags an amount across the months with times 1.1. Then Social security charges derive themselves as 22% of staff costs, with a connecting line lighting up.
Create multiple scenarios, copy one and change only what differs. Compare your reports against the scenario you choose.
Drag an amount across the months with times 1.1, let an empty cell copy the previous one, or calculate a line as a percentage of another.
Budget consolidated, per BV or down to the individual account. Fill something in at a finer level and that level counts automatically, without double counting.
Found your favourite combination, reporting month, YTD, compare with budget, heatmap on? Save it. For yourself or for the whole company. And choose your own starting point, so every morning you land in exactly the right view.
The demo runs entirely in your browser with fictitious figures. Slide the reporting month, switch on the heatmap, build a budget. Nothing to install, nothing to lose.
Yes. Profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and the dashboard all read the same reporting month. Move the bar and the whole set recalculates, there is nothing to update separately.
Month shows only the selected month. YTD is year to date: everything added up to and including your reporting month. LE is the forecast (latest estimate): your actuals so far, topped up with your budget for the rest of the year.
Yes. Besides the quarter buttons you can pick a free range of months that runs across the year boundary, for example October to March.
Both. You budget consolidated, per entity, per account, or per account across all entities. Wherever you have filled in the finest detail, that level wins. With formulas, Excel import and up to five years ahead.
Yes. Save your favourite combination, personally or company-wide, and set your own starting point so you land in the right view every time.