Dashboards: expectations, practices and results

Studies conducted over the past three years by DFCG and BearingPoint identify trends in changing practices of financial departments and management audit in businesses. This year, the study surveyed the analyses and opinions of 210 decision-makers in finance and management, along with the insight of senior management of 75 businesses receiving dashboards.

Some key facts: 

• 56% of senior managers are dissatisfied with their current dashboards, 
• 61% consider that they are not action-oriented, 
• 69% of administrative and financial directors want to use specialist tools to create tomorrow's dashboards (72% currently use Excel).