One set of numbers for the board, the regulator and the business
Internal management reporting is automated when management packs and statutory reports come from the same governed model — so there is only ever one version of the numbers.
Management reporting runs on a private stack of spreadsheets that drifts from the statutory numbers, so half of every meeting is spent arguing about which figure is right instead of deciding what to do about it.
The problem: a parallel management reporting stack
02Three reasons the monthly pack costs more than it should.
A shadow spreadsheet estate
Management figures live in workbooks nobody owns, with logic that only one analyst can explain.
Rebuilt from scratch each month
The pack is reassembled by hand every cycle, so half the analyst calendar is spent on assembly rather than analysis.
Commentary that ages badly
Narrative is written once against numbers that keep moving, so the words and the figures quietly disagree.
The solution: DECIMA internal management reporting
03DECIMA treats the management pack as an output of the same model that produces the statutory accounts.
One shared model
Management and statutory reporting draw on the same mapped data, so a number means the same thing everywhere it appears.
Packs on demand
Any pack — division, region, cost centre — regenerates in minutes against the current data instead of waiting for the cycle.
Commentary that follows the data
Narrative is bound to the figures it explains and is flagged for review the moment those figures move.
How Internal Management Reporting runs on the engine
04Five stages that run continuously — not a quarterly scramble reassembled by hand.
- 01
Ingest
Governed connectors pull ledgers, sub-ledgers and source systems into the engine, with every field traced back to where it came from.
- 02
Model
The engine maps accounts, entities and disclosure requirements for Internal Management Reporting into one live model instead of a set of linked files.
- 03
Draft
Narrative, tables and tagging are generated from the model, so a change in the numbers rewrites the output rather than the reverse.
- 04
Validate
Rule checks, tie-outs and control tests run inline as the draft forms, flagging breaks at the point they appear.
- 05
Sign off
Reviews, approvals and evidence are captured as work happens, so the audit trail for Internal Management Reporting is complete the moment you file.
What changes
05The measurable difference once Internal Management Reporting stops being a manual assembly job.
- 01
Management and statutory reporting draw on one model, so there is a single answer to every number.
- 02
Packs refresh on demand instead of being rebuilt monthly, freeing the analyst time that rebuilding consumes.
- 03
Commentary sits alongside the figures it explains and updates when those figures change.
Questions teams ask
06Straight answers about running Internal Management Reporting on an evidence-first engine.
Related workloads
07Other reporting work that runs on the same engine and the same data model.
- 01Board ReportingBoard packs that refresh from live data, not a static snapshot of last week.
- 02Financial ReportingRun the full reporting cycle — close, review, disclosure and sign-off — in one workspace.
- 03Multi-Entity Financial ReportingConsolidate subsidiaries, currencies and charts of accounts without manual mapping spreadsheets.
One governed model. One version of the numbers.
See how DECIMA produces management and statutory reporting from the same continuously updated data.
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