FP&A
Building a KPI Dashboard Your Business Actually Uses
Most KPI dashboards are pretty and ignored. Here's how to build one with the 5–8 numbers that should drive every owner conversation.
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Why Most Dashboards Fail
- Too many metrics — 20+ KPIs on a single screen means nothing gets attention.
- Vanity metrics that don't drive decisions (page views, total revenue without margin, headcount).
- Not updated frequently enough — a quarterly dashboard is too stale to inform weekly decisions.
- Disconnected from accounting — KPIs pulled from various tools that don't reconcile to actual books.
- No targets — a number without a goal is just trivia.
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