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Executive Summary

The Executive Summary provides a real-time snapshot of your company's financial performance — revenue, expenses, cash position, and burn rate in one place. All metrics are dynamically calculated from your accounting data, connected bank accounts, and plan values (if configured).

Key functions​

  1. Performance monitoring — track KPIs like Total Revenue and Net Burn Rate for the selected period.
  2. Cash visibility — understand available cash and how long it will last via Cash Balance and Cash Runway.
  3. Trend analysis — monthly trends for Revenue, Expenses, Burn, and Cash Flow.
  4. Comparative insights — compare against Last Year (LY), Last Period (LP), and Plan.
  5. Expense breakdown — identify top spending categories.

How each tile is calculated​

Total Revenue​

  • Value: total Income from the Income Statement for the selected period.
  • vs. LY: (This Year Revenue − Last Year Revenue) ÷ Last Year Revenue × 100
  • vs. LP: (This Period Revenue − Last Period Revenue) ÷ Last Period Revenue × 100
  • vs. Plan: Actual Revenue − Planned Revenue

Net Burn Rate​

  • Value: Net Burn = Net Profit × (Elapsed Days in Month ÷ Total Days in Month), where Net Profit = Income − Expenses (cash basis).
  • vs. LY / vs. LP / vs. Plan: same comparison formulas as above, applied to Net Burn.

Cash Balance​

Sum of balances from all connected bank accounts.

Cash Runway​

Cash Runway = Current Cash Balance ÷ Net Burn Rate — how many months your current cash will last.

Months on the X-axis, revenue on the Y-axis. This Year = monthly total income (Income Statement); Last Year = same for previous year; Plan = monthly planned revenue from Plan Manager.

This Year = Income − Operating Expenses (cash basis, monthly); Last Year = same calculation for the previous year; Plan = planned income − planned expenses.

Cash Flow​

Money In = sum of categorized income transactions; Money Out = sum of categorized expense transactions; Net Cash = Money In − Money Out. Based on both connected bank transactions and manually recorded transactions.

This Year = monthly total expenses (Income Statement); Last Year = previous year; Plan = planned expenses from Plan Manager.

Top Expenses​

Highest expense categories — total expenses grouped by category (General Ledger).

Credit Card Balance​

Current balance of credit cards; defaults to 0 if no balance is recorded.

FAQs​

What does the Executive Summary show? A high-level overview of revenue, expenses, cash flow, burn rate, and financial trends.

Why is my Net Burn Rate adjusted mid-month? The system prorates burn based on elapsed days in the month for a real-time estimate.

What is included in Cash Flow? Both bank-synced and manually recorded transactions.

Why do trends differ from reports? Differences may be due to timing, accounting basis, or filters.

What is vs. LY and vs. LP? vs. LY compares the same period last year; vs. LP compares the previous period.

Why is Plan data missing? Plan values appear only if configured in Plan Manager.

Why is Credit Card Balance zero? No connected cards or no outstanding balance.

Can I change the timeframe? Yes, using the period filter (e.g., This Year).

Does it update automatically? Yes, based on the latest synced and recorded data.

Why are some values missing? Data may be incomplete or not yet categorized.