Finance Dashboard Lab in Excel: From Trial Balance to Exec KPIs

Tom Fragale Instructor:
Tom Fragale 
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
60 Minutes
Webinar ID: 503333

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Overview:

Creating a financial dashboard in Excel from a trial balance involves several key steps, from data preparation to calculating and visualizing executive-level key performance indicators (KPIs). A well-structured dashboard allows leaders to quickly assess financial health, track performance, and make informed decisions without wading through detailed reports.

This webinar will show you how to make a dashboard from your financial data.

Area Covered in Session:

  • Prepare the data
  • Ensure the trial balance is balanced
  • Categorize accounts
  • Create a PivotTable for the Income Statement:
  • Create a PivotTable for the Balance Sheet:
  • Calculate executive-level KPIs
    • Gross Profit Margin: $=(Gross~Profit) / (Total~Revenue)
    • Operating Profit Margin: $=(Operating~Income) / (Total~Revenue)
    • Net Profit Margin: $=(Net~Income) / (Total~Revenue)
    • Liquidity KPIs:
    • Current Ratio: $=(Current~Assets) / (Current~Liabilities)
    • Quick Ratio: $=(Current~Assets - Inventory) / (Current~Liabilities)
    • Efficiency KPIs:
    • Days Sales Outstanding (DSO): $=(Accounts~Receivable / Total~Revenue) * Number~of~Days
    • Inventory Turnover Ratio: $=(Cost~of~Goods~Sold) / (Average~Inventory)
  • Create a PivotTable for the Income Statement:
  • Create a PivotTable for the Balance Sheet:
  • Design and build the dashboard
    • Charts
    • Slicers
    • Timelines
    • Conditional Formatting
    • Form Controls
    • KPI’s

Who Will Benefit:
  • Business Owners
  • CEO's / CFO's / CTO's
  • Managers of all levels
  • Anybody who uses Excel on a regular basis, and want to be more efficient and productive
  • Administrators
  • Salespeople
  • Trainers
  • Bankers
  • Office workers
  • Finance Professionals


Speaker Profile
Tom Fragale is a computer professional with over 30 years of professional experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a Microsoft Certified Expert in Excel. He has trained over 30,000 business people in on-line webinars, public seminars, and on-site training.

His clients include many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military bases, and companies large and small across many industries, including manufacturing, banking, pharmaceutical, education, retail, etc. He started his career as a database application programmer and has served as a consultant and project manager on many successful projects. His topics of expertise include: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, Visio, QuickBooks, and SharePoint, among others. His passion is training people and helping people get the most out of their computers, and he is a published author having written a book on Microsoft Access. He graduated in 1988 from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA with a BA in Computer Science.


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