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Financial Reporting: Would You Prefer Practical or Aesthetic

 

Let’s skip the basics.

You already know the pain of messy, manual financial reporting. So did one of our clients, a fast-growing company, drowning in transactional data and hungry for visibility. They couldn’t view their P&L, Balance Sheet, or Liquidity Ratios without hours of spreadsheet gymnastics.

We put them back in the driver’s seat with a custom Power BI solution that automated their entire reporting structure.

But the only real question we asked at the end…
What kind of output do you want?

  • A dynamic Power BI report with drill-downs, variance analysis, and trend storytelling?
  • Or an aesthetically perfect, pixel-specific, boardroom-ready financial report?

Tough call. What would you choose: 1 or 2?

Our client said: Both.
So here’s what we built:

 

One Framework, Two Output Modes

 

Our approach combined two financial reporting preferences into one seamless experience:

  • Interactive Financial Dashboards built in Power BI
  • Excel Integration to keep the finance team’s favourite tool in play
  • Paginated Reports built for precision and polish- Coming soon!

Try the dashboard now:

 

New to Power BI?

Here’s what you can do with the demo:

  • Choose What You Want to See: Use filters like Year, Profit & Loss Category, Geography, and Scale to view the data that matters to you.
  • Go Deeper into the Data: In tables like Profit & Loss, click the ( ↓ ↓ ) icon to see more details, or use the ‘Expand All’ icon to view all levels in the hierarchy. You can also use the + / − signs to open or close rows.
  • Click to Filter: Click on any bar, number, or month in a chart, and the whole page will update based on your selection.
  • Pick What to Compare: On Page 3, you can choose what numbers to see — like Opening Balance, Closing Balance, or Movement — and the data will update right away.
  • Everything Reacts Instantly: Every click or selection changes the visuals immediately, so it’s easy to explore and understand the data.

 

Excel View

Balance sheet excel view

Balance sheet financial reporting excel

Financial reporting line chart of net profit

You can access the PDF view of the Excel here!

 

Outcomes That Drive Decisions

Each visual element in the dashboard serves a real decision-making purpose:

  • Month-on-Month Trends
    Quickly identify revenue dips, cost spikes, or margin compression. Teams no longer wait for end-of-quarter surprises, they course-correct in real time.
  • Variance Waterfall Chart
    Breaks down fluctuations into components: revenue changes, COGS impact, operational shifts. It’s a storytelling tool for finance instantly showing what moved, and whether it was good or bad news.
  • Balance Sheet Interactivity
    Toggle between months or divisions to isolate problem areas like sudden drops in receivables or liabilities creeping up. Red flags don’t stay hidden anymore.
  • Liquidity Ratios
    Decision-makers get a living snapshot of short-term financial strength — useful for credit decisions, vendor negotiations, or investor updates.

These aren’t just dashboards. They’re conversation starters for your finance team.


Functionality

Plus, the solution keeps all the amazing functionality that comes with Power BI:

  • Subscription
  • Seamless Teams collaboration
  • Controlled access and role-based security
  • Scalable sharing within the organisation

All while ensuring there’s one version of truth, the Power BI semantic model remains the single source driving all views, keeping your numbers consistent, accurate, and trusted.

Excel Integration

The finance team continues to work in Excel as usual. As soon as data is updated and refreshed, the Power BI visuals reflect it instantly.
This means no workflow disruption… just smoother, smarter reporting.

The Result

  • Zero manual number-crunching
  • Storytelling-ready dashboards + print-ready financials
  • Fully tailored to client preferences
  • Scalable and sustainable

And most importantly, the finance team finally stopped choosing between form and function, because they got both.

We understand financial logic as well as data logic. That’s why our dashboards don’t just look smart, they think like your finance team does!

So, with Datanomy, you don’t have to choose.
You get a solution that adapts to how you work.

Talk to an expert to see how we can build this for you!

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