Management summary
- 0 sourced statements, 0 labelled estimate.
- Sources cited: 0.
Financial Intelligence
Overview and reporting
Leaders see finance through spreadsheets that disagree, assembled by hand before every meeting.
Demonstration: Marlowe Textiles Ltd (fictional) · Manufacturing and export. Fictional data and a scripted answer.
The situation
- Organisation
- Marlowe Textiles Ltd (fictional)
- Who is asking
- Finance director preparing the monthly management pack
- Industry
- Manufacturing and export
- What happened
- The monthly pack takes three days to assemble, and last month a figure was quoted that nobody could trace.
The question asked
Can you draft this month's summary for the management board using only statements we can source?
What it reads, and who can see the result
- Trial balance and management accounts exportThe month's figures.
- Budget and forecast exportFor variance.
- Receivables ageing exportFor the collection statement.
- Reads
- The month's accounts, the budget and the receivables ageing.
- Does not read
- Bank credentials, payroll detail or individual customer contracts.
- Permission
- Finance read access.
- Who sees it
- The finance director and the management board.
Try it
Choose which statements go into the brief. A statement with no source is refused; each one you include carries its sources with it.
October management summary
Choose the statements to include. Each one carries its sources into the brief.
0 of 6 statements included · 1 held back for lack of a source.
The answer
Simulated answer. Written for this fictional case, not produced by a live model. Only the figures in it are computed, from what you decided above.
0 statements are in the pack, each traceable to a source.
Revenue is above budget and profit just below it; both are calculated from the accounts and budget shown [S1][S2]. The aged-debt figure comes straight from the ageing report [S3].
Two forward-looking statements are different in kind: a promise that overdue balances will be collected has no support and is held out, and the full-year profit statement is an estimate, so it is labelled as one if you include it.
Relies on: S1 · October management accountsS2 · Budget, OctoberS3 · Receivables ageing, 31 October
Review and approval
The finance director decides. Approving releases the summary to the management board pack. It does not change a figure in the accounts.
Not ready to approve. Choose at least one supported statement for the brief first.
In the product this is a different person with the right permission. Here you play that role to see the rule.
What it produces
Limits of this example
- A draft assembled from the files given: a figure that is in no file cannot be added.
- Estimates are labelled but remain judgement.
- This is a scripted demonstration on fictional data. No model was called and no real organisation, person or result is shown.
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