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Workspace Cloudability
Categories Planning
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 2, 2026

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Flexible Visualization of Budget Variance Details

CFP (Cloud Financial Planning) lacks a good way to visualize the Budget Variance Details. Ideally, all dimensions of the plan should be selectable / Filtrable to construct a chart - they are currently in the Table, but to visualize it the only option is to export it with the "copy with headers" option and then work in excel. Also the time dimension and time window should have the same flexibility of the normal charts (Month, Quarter and Year as a minimum - possibly also weeks and days - with flexibility to choose start - end dates within the plan duration). Ideally these charts should  be created in the same "Budget Variance" tab where there are already some visuals. The existing (default) visuals can be kept, but other visuals should be allowed below them. 

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  • Guest
    Apr 15, 2026

    Hallo, there are two main limitation, one in "time" and one in "space". Time limitation: the time selector is very rigid (current month, quarter and year). We'd need the same flexibility you have in the ordinary dashboard widgets to focus on whatever time window and granularity. In particular the "current" Quarter poses a big problem because we do Quarterly reviews of the PAST quarter, usually some days into the CURRENT quarter (because we want consolidated, complete data of past quarter that are available only a few days into the new one). On the first day of the quarter, though, we loose  the possibility to look back to the past quarter. The only option is to have a yearly view that includes the Forecast, which is NOT what we want (because we just need actuals/budget comparison for the past quarter). Space limitation : plotting the 5 main variances is not enough. Ideally we should be able to create graphs selecting all the dimensions and all the data of the Budget Variance table. Again, using an ordinary Dashboard widget and its filtering/plotting capabilities would be ok. Currently my only option is to export the table into excel and then create pivot tables and charts (see screenshot). I'd like the charts to be available directly in Cloudability and be automatically updated as the new data flows in.

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    Peter Goubert
    Apr 2, 2026

    We currently provide a waterfall chart on the Budget Variance page that visualizes variance details (for the top 5 variances). That chart can be sliced by the different dimensions in the plan and time frames (current month, quarter, year). Does this not support your needs? If not, can you clarify what additional functionality you are looking for?

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