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What is Financial Analytics

• Financial Analytics is a field that gives different views of a company’s


financial data. It helps to gain in depth knowledge and take action against
it to improve the performance of your business. Financial analytics has its
effect on all parts of your business. Financial analytics plays a very
important role in calculating the profit of a business. Financial analytics
helps you to answer all your business questions related to your business
and also lets you to forecast the future of your business.
Uses of Financial Analytics
Financial analytics helps a business to
• Understand the performance of an organization
• Measure and manage the value of tangible and intangible assets of an organization
• Manage the investments of the company
• Forecast the variations in the market
• Increase the functionalities of information systems
• Improve the business processes and profits
There are four main reasons why financial analytics is
becoming more important these days. They are listed below

1. Business Models
2. Changing role of the financial department
There are three new business models which form the basis of
financial analytics Most of the finance functions are automatic and requires only
fewer resources to manage them. This enables the finance
Business to Business executives to concentrate more on the business goals rather
Business to Consumer than just focusing on processing and reconciling transactions
Business to Employee
3. Business Processes
4. Integrated Analytics
Businesses are becoming more complex these days due to the
advancement of technologies. Lot of questions arise in the These days companies use integrated financial analytics to face
mind of the business people. Analytics provide the answers to the competition in the financial analytics market place. Because
all these questions. Financial analytics lets the managers and of using such integrated financial analytics companies will be
executives in an organization to have access to more accurate able to analyze and share the information to the sources inside
and detailed financial information of the organization. This and outside the organization. Organizations should use
strengthens the relationship of the employee inside the integrated financial analytics to survive in the new economy.
organization.
5. Role of the Data Warehouse
• The data warehousing solutions mainly focus on important analytical
components like data stores, data marts and reporting applications. Data
warehousing in the future will require rich analytical capabilities. Smart
decisions are easily made when the data and business processes are
integrated across all business functions in an organization.
Data Driven Decision Making
Purpose -

• Provide guidelines for using data for team planning


• Provide guidelines for using data for on-going problem solving
• Apply guidelines to examples
Key features of data systems that work

• The data are accurate and valid


• The data are very easy to collect (1 % of staff time)
• Data are presented in picture (graph) form
• Data are used for decision-making
• The data must be available when decisions need to be made (weekly?)
• Difference between data needs at a school building and data needs for a district
• The people who collect the data must see the information used for decision-making.
Why collect discipline data?
• Decision making
• Professional accountability
• Decisions made with data (information) are more likely to be 1)
implemented and 2) effective.
What data to collect for decision making?

Use what you have:


• Attendance
• Suspensions/Expulsions
• Office discipline referrals/detentions
• Measure of overall environment. Referrals are affected by 1) student behavior 2) staff
behavior and 3) administrative context
• An under-estimate of what is really happening
• Office referrals per day per month
When should data be collected?
• Continuously
• Data collection should be an embedded part of the school cycle, not
something “extra”
• Data should be summarized prior to meetings of decision-makers
• Data will be inaccurate and irrelevant unless the people who collect and
summarize it see the data used for decision making.

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