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)

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)

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 (2025-09-02, 2026-02-04) (Confirmed)

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)