Tracking non-financial metrics
As an EPM system, AB Report deals with aggregated management information, which can be both financial and non-financial. AB Report supports the manual collection (or import) of non-financial metrics for use in reports or other calculations.
Examples of non-financial metrics:
Marketing
- Market coverage
- Visitors
- Leads
- New customers
- Industry benchmarks
Sales
- Retail space, square meter
- Monthly calls
- Customer demographics
- Customer feedback
Quality Metrics
- Defects
- Error rates
- Adherence to quality standards
Internal processes
- Internal transportation
- Resource use
Customer Satisfaction
- Net Promoter Score (NPS)
- Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
- Customer Churn
- Customer support tickets
Manufacturing
- Throughput
- Capacity utilization
- Defect rate
- Cycle Time
Service
- Billable hours
- Billable tasks/operations
Employees
- Number of Employees
- Working hours
- Training hours
- Absenteeism
Non-financial metrics are tracked and analysed with the same business dimensiona as financial data.
Setting up non-financial metrics
The list of non-financial metrics is displayed on the Key Performance Indicators page with the KPI calculation type "manually entered".
Tracking non-financial metrics
To track non-financial metrics, you need a special document template with Rows and Closing Action attributes, like this one. Non-financial metrics with required business dimensions are posted to the Non-Financial Data Ledger in the Accounting menu section. The data is available for use in reports.
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