Project attribution
If your organization also uses Projects, Finance receives from it the list of projects (and retainers) and lets you attach each estimate, invoice or purchase to the project it belongs to, and optionally to a specific retainer of that client.
With that attribution, each project shows:
- Income — invoiced amount once there are invoices, or estimated amount before there are any.
- Invoiced — the sum of its invoices.
- Direct costs — the sum of the purchases attributed to it.
Indirect costs (staff time allocation) are computed by Projects, not Finance: if you don't see that number here, check Projects.
Without Projects connected, this screen says so plainly instead of pretending there are no projects.
The dashboard
Dashboard brings together, at a glance, the current year's figures (sales, purchases, pending collections and payments, treasury) and the status of your last Holded sync.
The four analytics
- P&L — income and expenses by category, month by month.
- Treasury — a twelve-month forecast; if your organization uses People, it also deducts expected payroll cost (otherwise it warns you that the forecast is optimistic, and why).
- Recurring revenue — MRR/ARR computed from your sales subscriptions.
- Budget vs actual — your annual budget compared, month by month and category by category, against what really happened. The actual accumulation only counts up to the current month, so a half-finished year shouldn't look like a huge deviation.
Where to go next
- Estimates, sales, purchases and contacts.
- Connect an assistant — to ask an agent for a project's financial summary or the budget versus actual.