Management reporting
Stop rebuilding the same report every month.
Rebase updates your existing management pack or board deck with current numbers, refreshed charts, investigated variances and draft commentary, ready for finance review.
Your reporting format. Your definitions. Your review process.
The reporting cycle
The deck isn't the work. Everything before it is.
Every month the same finance work happens before anyone opens the pack. Most of it is preparation, and the preparation is what Rebase does.
Same work. Every month.
Don't migrate the report. Give it to Rebase.
Finance teams already have reporting formats built around their company, board and management cadence. Rebase works inside those structures instead of replacing them with another dashboard.
From source systems to management-ready reporting.
Six steps Rebase takes every cycle, in the order your team would take them, each leaving a record you can check.
Reporting cycles Rebase can prepare.
The recurring reports finance rebuilds by hand, prepared in the files they already live in.
- Monthly management packP&L, balance sheet, cash, KPIs and commentary.Monthly Management Pack.xlsx
- Board reportingFinance slides, charts and executive narrative.Q3 Board Report.pptx
- Business-unit reportingPerformance by region, department or segment.One pack per region · same definitions
- KPI reportingRecurring operational and financial metrics.12 KPIs · warehouse tables and the ledger
- Quarterly business reviewsPerformance, drivers and outlook.Q3 review · bridge, drivers, Q4 outlook
- Budget vs actual reportingActual performance and variance commentary.Opex +$1.6M vs budget · line by line
Worked example
September management pack, from raw actuals to CFO review.
Twenty minutes of Rebase's run, and the pack it leaves for review. Every figure in the pack opens onto what is under it.
- Revenue$26.5M+2.7% vs plan
- Gross margin64.2%+0.6 pts
- EBITDA$1.4M−$1.0M vs plan
- Cash$41.6M+$1.1M
Operating expensesCloud infrastructure
Linesvs budget
- Payroll$7.3M+$0.7M
- Marketing$2.1M+$0.1M
- Professional services$1.6M−$0.1M
- Other$1.4M+$0.2M
VendorsShare of cloud
- AWS$1.76M55%
- Azure$800K25%
- Datadog$350K11%
- Other$290K9%
AWS: 9 invoices, read from Business Central
Operating expenses and cloud infrastructure open onto the lines under them.
Commentary you can challenge.
Every claim in the commentary opens onto what it rests on: the calculation, the investigation, the records. Not a black-box paragraph.
Revenue finished while operating expenses remained above budget. Higher and costs explain most of the variance.
Select an underlined phrase to see what it rests on.
Drafted by Rebase at 08:19
Variance investigation
Payroll against budget
$7.3M against a $6.6M budget+$0.7M
- 9 account executives, early+$0.18M
- Merit increase, three months early+$0.18M
- 5 analytics engineers, early+$0.14M
- 8 support roles, not budgeted+$0.13M
- Commissions above plan+$0.07M
Personnel and infrastructure: $1.4M of the $1.6M operating expense variance.
Prepared automatically. Published deliberately.
Rebase prepares the pack and says what it has verified and what it has not. A named reviewer approves it before anyone outside finance sees it.
Questions
Where Rebase starts and stops.
Does Rebase replace our existing management pack?
No. Rebase works in the templates and reporting structures finance already uses: the same workbook, the same deck, the same definitions.
Can Rebase work with Excel and PowerPoint reports?
Yes. Rebase builds from your own workbook or deck as the template. A workbook keeps its tabs and formulas, a deck its slides, and the new month is the same file saved as a new version.
Does Rebase investigate variances before writing commentary?
Yes. Material movements are investigated first, so the commentary explains causes, with the figures and evidence behind them.
Does Rebase send reports directly to the board?
No. Rebase prepares the pack and flags what needs a decision. A named reviewer approves it, and finance sends it.
Can every number in the report be traced?
Each figure Rebase prepares carries its source and the calculation behind it, so a reviewer can follow it down to the accounts and records it came from.
Bring your last management pack.
We'll show you what Rebase could have refreshed, investigated and drafted before your team opened it.