How to Build a Cash Flow Dashboard: A Step-by-Step Guide

A cash flow dashboard provides a current view of cash balances, inflows, outflows, and projected liquidity by consolidating bank, ERP, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and forecast data. Building one requires centralized and reconciled source data, clear ownership, a structure separating operating, investing, and financing activity, and forecasting methods suited to different horizons, with direct forecasting commonly used for short-term liquidity and indirect forecasting for longer-term planning. Effective dashboards emphasize key measures such as current cash, net cash flow, burn rate, runway, and forecast-versus-actual variance, supported by visualizations and threshold alerts that highlight risks. Reliability depends on regular data refreshes, bank and general-ledger reconciliations, controlled assumptions, variance investigation, access management, and adaptation as systems and business conditions change. The piece also presents Sigma as a warehouse-native platform that can support live data queries, governed writeback for forecast assumptions, shared workspaces, and AI-assisted variance analysis.

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