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P&L, variance, cash flow

AI Financial Reporting Dashboard from CSV

Upload a P&L, GL extract, or budget vs actuals CSV and get summary tables, variance highlights, and a written narrative for the close.

300 free credits — about 30 stories. No credit card required.

What is financial reporting?

Financial reporting at a small or growing company often means stitching a QuickBooks / Xero export to a budget spreadsheet, computing variances, and writing a paragraph for the founder or board. Sreniq compresses that into one upload. It reads your P&L or general-ledger CSV, recognises common chart-of-accounts headers, computes month-over-month and budget-vs-actual variance, and produces a clean summary table plus a short narrative on what changed and why it matters. If your CSV includes a cash balance line, runway and burn fall out automatically; if it includes a department column, you get a per-department OpEx breakdown in the same view.

Common metrics

  • Revenue, COGS, gross margin %
  • Operating expense by category
  • Net income and operating income
  • Month-over-month and YoY variance
  • Budget vs actual variance ($ and %)
  • Cash flow (operating, investing, financing)
  • Burn rate and runway (if cash data included)
  • Top expense growers and decliners

Why teams choose Sreniq for financial reporting

The monthly close report is one of those documents that everyone needs but nobody enjoys producing. The mechanical part — pulling the P&L from QuickBooks, joining it to a budget tab, computing variance, writing two paragraphs of commentary — eats half a day. Sreniq does the mechanical part in one upload. You drop in the P&L plus an optional budget column; you get a categorised P&L summary, a variance table with red/green flags for lines off by more than your threshold, and an AI-written paragraph naming the lines that moved.

The richer cuts that founders and CFOs actually care about — gross margin trend over time, cash burn rate based on actuals, runway implied by current cash and burn — are derived in the same flow. If your CSV includes a cash balance line, runway falls out for free. If you include a department or cost-center column, OpEx by department slices in chat. Multi-entity work is a separate-file-per-entity workflow: upload each, ask for a consolidation, and Sreniq produces the combined view with eliminations called out.

Variance commentary is where the time savings compound. A typical close cycle has finance writing 'OpEx is 18% over plan, driven by a one-time legal expense and continued over-spend in marketing' for every line that moved. Sreniq drafts that paragraph from the variance numbers and the line names; you edit it for accuracy and send. The draft does not always nail nuance, but it consistently saves the half-hour of staring at the variance column trying to remember why the number moved.

Sreniq is a reporting layer, not a bookkeeping system. It works on the books your accountant produces and turns them into something readable in five seconds rather than an hour. For most early-stage companies the cadence is monthly close → upload the closed P&L → publish the dashboard internally → share the link with the board. The written narrative usually goes into the board update unchanged.

How Sreniq works for financial reporting

  1. 1

    Export your P&L or GL

    QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, or any accounting system. CSV with account, category, period, and amount columns is enough. Add a Budget column for variance.

  2. 2

    Sreniq summarises and flags variance

    It buckets accounts into Revenue / COGS / OpEx, computes margins and variances, and writes a short narrative on the lines that moved the most.

  3. 3

    Ask follow-ups for the close

    Ask 'why did marketing OpEx jump 24%?', 'show cash burn over 6 months', or 'compare this month vs the same month last year' and the report updates.

Example questions you can ask

  • "Build a P&L summary for last quarter with variance vs budget."
  • "Which OpEx category grew the most month-over-month?"
  • "Show gross margin trend for the last 12 months."
  • "What is our burn rate and runway based on this cash data?"
  • "Compare actuals to budget at the line-item level and flag anything off by more than 10%."
  • "Plot revenue by department for the last 6 months."

Common data sources

  • QuickBooks Online P&L export
  • Xero general ledger / P&L CSV
  • NetSuite financial reports
  • Sage 50 / Sage Intacct exports
  • Custom Excel budget vs actuals workbook
  • Brex, Ramp, or Mercury transaction exports

Frequently asked questions

Ready to try Sreniq with your financial reporting data?

Upload a CSV, JSON, Excel sheet, or Google Sheets link. Free tier covers about 30 stories — no credit card required.