Dimensional reporting
Cut the numbers by division, location, product, customer, region, project or plant.
FINK
Management reporting, in the shape your business runs
FINK is management reporting (MIS) for FP&A leads and CFOs. It takes the ledgers you already close and reports them by division, location, product and region, against budget. The pack still ties back to the statements.
| Statutory chart | What you file against |
|---|---|
| MIS chart | What the business is run on |
| Dimensions | Plant, division, product, region |
| Allocation | The rule, written down once |
| Reconciles | To the statements, every period |
Read the transcript
FINK. Ask your management reports: MIS for groups, in plain English. The MIS report, by entity and project, against budget. Ask a question in plain English. FINK reads the ledgers behind it. The answer, with its working, down to the GL lines. Tell it whether that is what you meant. FINK, by FINAHQ: management reporting you can ask.
What it does
What FINK does
Cost allocation
Allocate costs on your own drivers, including multi-step allocations.
MIS chart of accounts
Your own chart of accounts for management reporting, kept separate from the statutory one — a filing change never touches it.
Bespoke reporting groups
Group ledgers the way the business is actually run, not the way it files.
Budget vs actual vs forecast
Compare budget, actual and forecast, with a common-size budget builder and scenario modelling.
Scheduled MIS packs
Saved queries and scheduled packs delivered as Excel or slides.
Plain-English queries
Ask a financial question in plain English and get a computed answer.
KPI store
Live metrics that refresh when the ERP syncs.
Alerts
Know a number has moved the wrong way before the board meeting does, and know immediately if a sync has stopped working.
DRA Homes: the monthly pack took over two weeks. It is now available in under 48 hours. DRA is a Chennai developer with roughly fifteen entities, project accounting in In4Suite and entity books in Tally. FINK builds its pack, by entity and by project, from one reconciled dataset across both. Read the DRA Homes story.
Where your month goes
Your numbers are final the day the ledger closes. Then you split them into divisions, apply the allocation basis, line them up against a budget kept in another file and paste the lot into the pack. Across our existing client engagements, roughly three-quarters of that work is rearranging rather than deciding. FINK takes on the rearranging. The table further down shows it step by step, and there’s a page for the FP&A lead.
FINK only reads. It never posts an entry to your books, won’t replace your statutory close and won’t decide an accounting treatment.
What it costs
There’s no rate card. The value calculator shows an indicative price and the benefit for your case, with no call and no email address needed. It isn’t a quotation. What it costs lists what moves the price.
You’d sign with the same entity that offers FINAHQ. Take both products and you’re signing with one company, not two.
Where it runs
FINK runs inside your infrastructure: on-premise, in a private cloud VPC, or air-gapped. The query layer, ERP connectors and AI engine all sit there.
- Your model, your contract. No third-party AI API calls. FINK uses the model endpoint you nominate, and you pay that provider directly, outside our estimate.
- Access is enforced at the query engine. Every query is logged, and SSO is supported.
- Read-only. Your team issues the credential and can revoke it. By default we keep no standing access.
- Contract term, renewal and exit terms are in the agreement.
Each ERP’s connection, and every other question IT asks, is on the trust page.
Where the month goes
What actually takes the time in a monthly pack
How much of the monthly pack's effort FINK takes off, on average.
See it step by step
| What the pack is made of | Of the effort today | Taken off | What changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pull actuals from each ERP | 15% | 70% | Nothing to pull together. Actuals are already in FINK, refreshed from each ERP. |
| Allocate shared costs | 20% | 80% | No manual allocation spreadsheet. Costs split on drivers you set, such as headcount, area or revenue. |
| Cut numbers by division, plant, segment or customer | 20% | 80% | Every report is already cut the way you need it, by division, plant, segment or customer, defined once. |
| Compare against budget and explain variances | 15% | 75% | Variances are already explained by line and dimension. Budget sits alongside actuals, not in a separate workbook. |
| Put the pack into management's format | 15% | 70% | Your MIS workbook looks exactly as it does today. It just refreshes itself every month. |
| Answer follow-up questions | 15% | 60% | No more digging for a one-off answer. Follow-ups are asked in plain English and answered from the same numbers. |
| Across the whole month | 100% | 73% | Each component's share, multiplied by how much of that component is taken off. Your own systems and dimensions change it, which is what the calculator is for. |
Proof
What changed
over 2 weeks becomes under 48 hours
Monthly management pack, from period end to available
Every result here is that customer's own, published with their permission.
What we have written for FP&A, CFO readers
Budget, actual and forecast in one place
Three numbers, usually in three systems, reconciled by hand each month. What it takes to hold them together so the variance is a fact.
Cost allocation you can defend in a board meeting
Every allocation is an opinion. The ones that survive questioning have a basis fixed before the result, applied the same way every month.
Your MIS chart of accounts is not your statutory one, and that is fine
The board wants the business cut, the filing wants the statutory cut, and the same ledgers must produce both. How to hold two views, one set of books.
Questions
Commonly asked
Are these the same numbers as our statutory reporting?
Yes. FINK reads the same mapped data. Your MIS chart of accounts is kept separate from the statutory chart and mapped to it, so you can structure management reporting your own way and it still reconciles.
Can we use it for a single company?
Yes. A single company needs management reporting just as much as a group does. It has no group arithmetic to do, which is why the value calculator points a single company to FINK.
What happens if a period's data isn't loaded?
FINK tells you and won't estimate. The data availability grid shows which periods it holds.
Does our data leave our network?
No. The whole stack, including the AI engine, runs inside your own infrastructure, and it calls the model endpoint you nominate.
FINK is offered by Ananta Technology Services LLP.