FinSentry¶
FinSentry is a finance and controlling workspace for labor-intensive, low-margin businesses. It turns messy operational finance exports into a clean management view and points out unusual cost or margin movements.
This documentation covers the parts that are easiest to get wrong at the start:
| Topic | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Anomaly detection | How FinSentry decides a month is unusual |
| Impact | What the number in the Impact column means |
| Drivers | How an anomaly is traced back to its inputs |
| Uploading datasets | Getting an Excel export into FinSentry |
| Adding formulas | Defining how metrics are calculated — needed for drivers |
How it fits together¶
- Upload an Excel export.
- Confirm the cost center and time columns, name the metrics, and set formulas.
- FinSentry processes the data and checks the selected metrics for anomalies.
- For metrics with formulas, it works out which inputs drove each anomaly.
Processing runs in the background and usually finishes in under a minute.
Key terms¶
- Cost center — the unit each metric is grouped by.
- Period — a calendar month. Everything is monthly.
- Metric — a number from the file, or a value calculated from other metrics by a formula.
- Anomaly — one or more consecutive unusual months for the same cost center, metric, and direction, shown as a single item.
- Driver — an input metric that explains part of an anomaly's move.