Financial Modeling and Reporting with Microsoft Power BI
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-83588-026-5 (ISBN)
Key Features
Build a complete financial data model from ledgers, journals, and budgets
Master DAX for income statements, KPIs, and performance analysis
Learn Power BI Paginated and AI tools for printable and predictive reporting
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Book DescriptionPower BI for Financial Reporting is the definitive guide to designing high-performance, flexible, and insightful financial reports using Power BI. This book empowers finance and BI professionals to create everything from trial balances to enterprise-wide performance dashboards with ease and precision.
The book starts by helping you define your reporting goals and data sources, mapping these needs to Power BI’s capabilities. You’ll then build a core financial data model—covering ledger transactions, charts of accounts, and multi-company support. As you proceed, you’ll integrate complex DAX measures, handle foreign exchange and journal entries, and extend your model with budgeting and inventory data.
Each chapter builds toward a comprehensive suite of reports, complete with visual best practices and tested metrics. You’ll learn to streamline datasets using Power Query, test for data integrity, and generate printable reports via Power BI Paginated. The final chapters dive into using AI, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Fabric to future-proof your reporting.
Whether you're consolidating data across systems or evolving your reports for changing business needs, this hands-on guide ensures you’re prepared to meet the demands of modern finance.What you will learn
Build core financial models from ledgers and accounts
Create Trial Balance and Income Statements using DAX
Optimize Power BI with Power Query and data transformation
Add budgets, targets, and KPIs to performance dashboards
Integrate inventory data for nuanced stock reporting
Produce printable reports using Power BI Paginated
Apply AI for report generation and predictive analytics
Test, tune, and evolve reports for secure, scalable use
Who this book is forThis book is for finance professionals, accountants, financial analysts, and BI developers who want to leverage Power BI to improve, automate, and future-proof their financial reporting. Whether consolidating data from ERPs, building reports across entities, or exploring advanced Power BI features, this book equips readers with practical skills and strategic insight.
Andy Clark is a Power BI and Data Analytics consultant with a career focused on ERP, CRM, and Business intelligence. He is the CEO of Clearly Solutions LLC, based in Houston, TX, which is a specialist consultancy with a focus on digital transformation using the Microsoft Power Platform. Andy also runs the Greater Houston Power BI User Group and regularly delivers Microsoft Fabric and Power BI training to the Houston data community. Tom Gough is a data management and analytics professional with over 25 years of industry experience, working on BI solutions across a range of industries, specializing in Power BI in all areas of business, especially in finance. Tom is based in the UK and is the Technical Director at Clearly Cloudy Ltd. In 2015, he delivered one of the first publicly available Power BI courses in the UK, and in 2018, established the first Power BI user group in Birmingham, UK. Shailan Chudasama is a business professional specialist with over 25 years of experience in business intelligence and data analytics. He has successfully delivered national and global multi-faceted projects with Microsoft, including Microsoft BI and Microsoft Dynamics. He has a background in Finance and Accounting and is a principal who has architected large-scale data and analytics solutions with the latest Microsoft offerings. A pragmatic business leader who helped establish Clearly Cloudy Limited in 2015. Shailan is based in the South East, UK. In his spare time, if he has any, he is a qualified firefighter.
Table of Contents
Understanding your needs and data sources
The Basic Model for Financial Reporting
Creating A Trial Balance and Income Statement
Common DAX Measures
Handling Journal Entries
Streamlining with Power Query
Incorporating Budgets
Managing Inventory Data
Creating a suite of financial reports
Testing and fine tuning your data
Printable Financial Statement with Power BI Tabular
Financial Reporting in an AI-driven world
Evolving and Maintaining your reports
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Birmingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83588-026-6 / 1835880266 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83588-026-5 / 9781835880265 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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