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Finance Overview

The Finance Overview Dashboard provides a breakdown of all spend for Cost Pools, Cost Centers and Trends. This allows you to see your total IT spend from a Finance perspective.

Near real-time visibility for tracking spend to quickly identify areas to improve and proactively set appropriate actions

Who should use this dashboard?

IT- Management, IT-Finance, IT Executives

What is this dashboard used for?

This dashboard shows a high level of year-to-date, monthly and the year-over-year view of IT spend. It also highlights the top 20 vendors by spend.

What questions does this Dashboard answer?
  • What is the total cost center spend year-to-date?

  • How does the year-to-date spend compare to the year-to-date budget?

  • Which Cost Centers are over/under budget and by how much?

Key Benefits

This dashboard can be used as part of monthly business reporting, financial, and variance analysis.  It provides the high-level detail needed to spot anomalies and the drill-down capability to analyze underlying detail to support investigation of anomalies. 


For detailed instructions on navigating dashboards and using filters, see: Navigation and filters


KPIs

Spend (YTD)

Year to date spend

Annual Budget

Budget for the full year

Budget (YTD)

Budget for the Year to Date

Variance (YTD)

Difference between current year spend (YTD) and prior year spend (YTD).


Charts and tables

Selecting any data point in a chart allows you to drill down into a more detailed view of the selected element.


Monthly Spend

This chart shows the monthly trend month-on-month and the cumulative Year to Date spend. Spend is shown as Total Spend and Budget for each month. The cumulative dotted spend line predicts spend for future months based on historic spend.

Click on any Spend column to drill into the month and see the spend broken down for the month.

Cost Pools

The Cost Pool chart shows the cumulative Year to Date spend and Year to Date budget broken down by Cost Pool. Click on any Cost Pool column to drill further into the spend for the Cost Pool.


Top 20 Cost Centers

The Top 20 Cost Centers chart shows the top 20 cost centers from most to least spend. Spend for each cost center is shown as Spend YTD and Budget.

Click on any cost center bar to drill further into the Cost Center Spend dashboard.


Top 20 Vendors

The Top 20 Vendors chart shows the top 20 vendors by spend from most to least spend. Spend for each vendor is shown as Spend YTD and Budget.

Click on any vendor bar to drill further into the Vendor Spend dashboard.


Data sources

The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.

Chart Name

Data Cube

Monthly Spend

TBM Cost Pools

Cost Pools

TBM Cost Pools

Top 20 Cost Centers

TBM Cost Pools

Top 20 Vendors

TBM Cost Pools

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