GoFast.Finance/BC-INTRO-02: Reading Performance Reports

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Reading Performance Reports

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  • 3 Lessons

Read monthly performance reports with confidence and turn variances into clear messages.

👀 Literacy and confidence: Read performance packs without feeling lost in tables, charts and jargon.

🤝 Cleaner conversations: Ask sharper questions and prepare better performance updates for managers.

📊 Better decisions: Highlight the few variances that actually matter for actions and risk.

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Who this is for

Junior controllers and FP&A analysts who prepare or review monthly performance packs.

Non finance managers with cost center responsibility who want to read finance reports clearly.

Prerequisites

Knowledge: Basic familiarity with income statements, balance sheets and common KPIs in your business.

Tools: Access to your organization`s reporting tool or sample P&L and variance reports.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify the key structures and sections of a performance pack.

  2. Interpret common variances in P&L and KPI reports - basic level.

  3. Distinguish noise from meaningful variances for a defined scope.

  4. Summarize monthly performance in clear business messages.

CPE Information

  • Eligibility: not eligible - introductory only

  • Watch time: about 45 minutes

  • Total learning: about 1.5 hours

  • Estimated credits: 0

Contents

Module 1: Reading Monthly Performance Packs

Lesson 1: Finding your way around performance reports
Lesson 2: Making sense of P&L and KPI variances
Lesson 3: Turning variances into clear messages