Reporting¶

Overview¶

Reporting in treasury encompasses the creation, distribution, and analysis of cash position reports, liquidity dashboards, and financial summaries for internal stakeholders. This includes daily cash reports, management dashboards, regional visibility views, and executive summaries.

For treasury teams, reporting serves two critical functions: operational decision-making (daily cash management) and stakeholder communication (CFO updates, board reporting). The challenge is that most teams lack self-service capabilities—they depend on IT, vendors, or BI teams to build and modify reports, creating delays and bottlenecks.

Palm can help by providing self-service report building, scheduled publishing to Slack/email, drill-down capabilities, and shareable dashboards for regional teams—all without waiting for custom development.

For detailed ICP context and terminology, see fundamentals.md

Top Jobs & Desired Outcomes¶

Full history: jobs.md

⚡ 1. Create and modify cash reports independently with self-service capabilities¶

Desired Outcomes: - Minimize the time required to create a new dashboard or report view - Reduce the frequency of requests to the Palm team for custom report builds - Increase the flexibility to adjust filters, currencies, and views on existing reports

Sources: ON, Personio (Confirmed) — "Instead of waiting a day for you building a dashboard for us... just putting it ourselves"

⚡ 2. Track investments, FX exposure, and cash concentration by bank¶

Desired Outcomes: - Minimize the time required to see total balance by bank, currency, and entity - Increase visibility into investment maturity timing and interest tracking - Reduce the effort required to identify cash concentration risks across banks

Sources: ON, Personio (Confirmed) — Investment tracking with rate, maturity, credit rating fields

Desired Outcomes: - Minimize the time required for regional teams to access up-to-date cash position data - Reduce reliance on central treasury for basic cash visibility - Increase the number of team members who can independently view cash reports

Sources: ON x2 (Confirmed) — "Can we help them care and give them more information so they get more interested in it too"

⚡ 4. Provide CFO/management with scheduled cash position updates¶

Desired Outcomes: - Minimize the manual effort to produce recurring management reports - Reduce the risk of management making decisions on stale cash data - Increase the reliability of scheduled report delivery to stakeholders

Sources: ON, Sonder, Personio (Confirmed) — "CFO and executives won't log into dashboards — reports must be delivered via email"

⚡ 5. Build and deliver daily cash position to stakeholders before 8 AM¶

Desired Outcomes: - Minimize the time required to produce the morning cash position report - Reduce the risk of errors in manually compiled position reports - Increase the timeliness of cash data available to decision makers at start of day

Sources: Sonder, IHG (Confirmed) — "Daily cash position must be ready before 8 AM — two tracks: active positioning and passive reporting"

Key Pain Points¶

Full history: pain-points.md

Data validation takes too much time before variance analysis can start (Source: Personio)
Can't get accurate categorized data until T+11/T+12 - T+1 is best-effort (Source: Personio)
Can't easily filter or modify existing reports (Source: ON)
Waiting for vendor/IT to build custom reports creates delays (Source: ON)
Regional teams don't have access to up-to-date cash visibility (Source: ON)
No way to see historical forecast vs actuals comparison (Source: ON)
Current BI tools lack bank account level detail (Source: ON)
Reports need to "tell a story" with explanations - not just "see attached" (Source: Sonder)
CFO/executives won't log into dashboards - email delivery essential (Source: Sonder)

Key Opportunities¶

Self-service report builder - Let treasury build their own dashboards
Scheduled publishing - Email/Slack snapshots with interactive drill-down links
Regional sharing - View-only access for ~10+ regional users
Drill-down capabilities - From summary charts to individual transactions

Open Questions¶

[ ] What report frequency do teams need? (Daily, weekly, monthly?)
[ ] How many regional users typically need access?

Last updated: 2026-02-04 | Sources: 12 transcripts (view all)