Weekly CFO Review
Run a repeatable review across source health, cash, reports, budgets, invoices, and forecast risk.
This cadence keeps actuals, plans, and scenarios in one sequence without confusing them. It works for a founder, fractional CFO, bookkeeper, or finance operator.
Roles and access
- Owners and Members can read finance data, change budgets, and execute forecast and saved-scenario operations.
- Viewers can read team finance queries but cannot change budgets or run the write-backed Forecast workbench.
- The finance pages are live signed-in workspace views. CSV and Print are handoff tools; they do not create a public shared page.
Before the meeting
- Open Settings → Account → Bank Connections.
- Resolve connections that need attention and let the latest sync finish.
- Confirm current invoices and payment outcomes are recorded.
- Make sure planned monthly targets exist under Finances → Budgets.
- Choose the reporting period the team will use consistently.
1. Start with the command center
Open Finances → Overview and set Reporting period.
Review:
- Owner brief
- business-health score and weakest signal
- Do these first
- Revenue, Profit, Cash, and Runway
- Make more money, Lose less money, and Plan what may be coming
Open every critical action before moving on. The queue shows only the first three items; it is a triage list, not a complete ledger.
2. Review invoice and collection exposure
Use:
- Invoices → Insights for reporting-oriented invoice analysis
- Receivables for collection execution
- the linked invoice or customer record for specific follow-up
Keep invoice data separate from cash:
- unpaid invoice value is expected collection context
- it is not current bank cash
- changing invoice status does not rewrite historical transaction actuals
3. Review the observed financials
Open Finances → Reports.
- Select the same reporting period used on Overview.
- Use Grid for the chart deck.
- Review the KPI strip: Revenue, Profit, Burn Rate, Runway, and Cash Balance.
- Scan the curated charts, especially cash flow, burn, account-balance trends, expenses, revenue, and tax.
- Switch to Table for This period, Prior period, and Change across Revenue, Expenses, Profit, and Profit margin.
Use Export CSV when you need the four-row variance dataset. Use Print for the current printable page. CSV does not export every chart's raw series.
4. Review plan versus actual
Open Finances → Budgets.
- Choose Expense or Revenue. When All types is selected, summary and pacing default to Expense.
- Review Budget vs Actual:
- expenses are favorable when actual is at or below budget
- revenue is favorable when actual is at or above target
- Review Track & pace:
- current-month projected value extrapolates the month-to-date run rate
- the annual projection uses actuals through the current month and budgets for future months
- Use List for individual monthly records or Grid for the annual category-by-month plan.
Budget values are the plan. Actuals come from recorded revenue or expense data. A forecast does not automatically overwrite either.
5. Review the forecast
Open Finances → Forecast.
- Choose 6 months, 12 months, or 24 months.
- Confirm the no-driver baseline.
- Review Runway P10, Runway P50, Runway P90, and Cash-negative odds.
- Apply the scenario most relevant this week: revenue shock, hiring, expense surge, collection timing, client cancellation, recovery, one-time expense, or FX.
- Compare Baseline, Active plan, and Defensive plan.
- Note the first Watch, High, or Critical month.
Use Model real payment behavior when observed client payment lag and promise reliability should influence expected collection timing.
6. Close the review
Before ending, be able to state:
- source problems that can make current data stale
- critical collection or payment actions
- current cash and selected-period performance
- budget categories that are unfavorable
- the baseline runway distribution
- the downside assumptions tested
- the first pressure month and mitigation
Eigenn does not provide a Close weekly review control on these pages. Resolve or assign work in the underlying records, and use the CSV, printed report, saved scenario name, or your team's meeting system as supporting evidence.
Status reference
| Status | Interpretation |
|---|---|
| Critical / Warning / Info on Overview | Priority order for rule-based action items. |
| Over budget / Under budget | Expense actual is above or below plan. |
| Above target / Below target | Revenue actual is above or below plan. |
| On track in pacing | Projected current-month result is favorable for the selected budget type. |
| Low / Moderate / High / Critical risk | Less than 10%, 10% to less than 25%, 25% to less than 50%, or at least 50% chance of any negative-cash month. |
| > horizon | No cash breach occurred inside the chosen forecast horizon. |
| Not enough history yet | A calibration or forecast could not be supported by available history. |
Troubleshooting
Overview and Reports disagree
Confirm both pages use the same reporting period and currency. Cash is current across enabled accounts; revenue and profit are period totals.
Reports look current but cash does not
Check Settings → Account → Bank Connections. Reports has no page-wide last-sync badge.
Budget pacing looks wrong
Confirm the selected budget type and current month. Pacing extrapolates month-to-date actuals linearly; it is not the probabilistic cash forecast.
Forecast differs from the budget
That is expected. The Forecast workbench models historical revenue, expenses, cash, and explicit drivers. Budget cells do not automatically become forecast drivers.
A Viewer cannot run the forecast
Have an Owner or Member run and save the scenario. Forecast execution is a team write operation.