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Board FP&A Cash Flow Agent Demo

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  1. Designed as persona-based collaborative partners with deep domain

  2. expertise, the Board financial planning and analysis agent for cash flow

  3. analysis understands the operational drivers behind cash management.

  4. This allows finance teams to run structured analysis much faster with

  5. considerable productivity gains.

  6. It gives full traceability into the main drivers of any variance so

  7. teams can make decisions with confidence and also quickly helps with assessing

  8. risks and opportunities.

  9. So let's take a quick look.

  10. Directly from any screen in Board, you can reach your agent with a simple click and

  11. access a set of predefined prompts or create your own.

  12. The Board agents, in fact, are context aware and always follow users in

  13. their interaction with the Board platform.

  14. What you are seeing now is how the Board agent for cash flow analysis makes this

  15. process much simpler. Instead of building reports, the

  16. user simply asks a business question.

  17. Here, as user, I have just asked the agent to run a cash flow variance

  18. analysis between actuals and budget, and to explain what's driving the

  19. difference. The agent creates an execution plan, shown here

  20. as a series of steps. The agent understands finance, the

  21. underlying Board data model, and how cash flow is built from the

  22. profit and loss and balance sheet.

  23. Once the reasoning is complete, the answer starts streaming.

  24. The Board agent has analyzed the net cash position across operating,

  25. investing, and financing activities, identified the key variance points,

  26. and found the main drivers affecting liquidity.

  27. Once these high level cash flow variances are quantified, the agent goes a step

  28. further. It identifies which legal entities are primarily responsible

  29. for the net cash flow variance. Then it runs a root cause analysis,

  30. linking those variances back to underlying business drivers like revenue shifts,

  31. CapEx changes, or working capital movements across the profit and

  32. loss and balance sheet.

  33. We can clearly see that Nordics is the single largest contributor to the

  34. variance.

  35. So the CFO can drill deeper into a monthly trend analysis for Nordics

  36. and see the actual versus budget net cash flow in a line chart,

  37. highlighting the key months that drive the variance.

  38. This happens instantly with the Board agent with no need to rebuild reports

  39. or switch context.

  40. A critical point here is trust. Every number the agent

  41. provides can be checked directly in the data source tab, which shows the

  42. exact rows, columns, and selections used for the agent's answer.

  43. This gives users confidence that the insights are explainable,

  44. auditable, and based on real data.

  45. Continuing with the analysis, we can see that the agent provides built-in

  46. recommendations for further analysis.

  47. For example, the working capital deep dive for underperforming entities is

  48. very useful.

  49. With a single click, the CFO can quantify the 2025

  50. actual versus budget variances in accounts receivable,

  51. inventory, accounts payable, and other current liabilities, and

  52. translate them into cash flow impact and corrective actions for underperforming

  53. entities. The well-formatted answer includes the working capital

  54. variances and cash impact, root cause analysis by entity,

  55. and targeted corrective actions to take the analysis further.

  56. One of the most requested features from our users is the ability to produce

  57. visualizations in real time during analysis.

  58. Here, the user asks for a waterfall chart based on the cash flow analysis we have

  59. just done. The agent generates the waterfall chart

  60. instantly based on the context of the cash flow analysis, showing the

  61. 2025 actual versus budget working capital cash

  62. impact across the four entities, along with its interpretations.

  63. The chart can be zoomed in and downloaded for presentations or further

  64. analysis. This is a real-time insight ready for executives.

  65. Let's quickly recap the main capabilities of the Board financial planning and

  66. analysis agent for cash flow analysis.

  67. Our agents are use cases specific.

  68. It's like having a financial specialist working alongside us, operating within our

  69. dimensional model. They translate business questions using natural

  70. language into structured cash flow analysis across the balance sheet,

  71. profit and loss, and cash flow, decomposing any variance

  72. into operating, investing, financing, and all the different

  73. cash layers.

  74. They also attribute variances to the underlying drivers behind them, and most

  75. importantly, they suggest next steps, recommend further

  76. analysis, and generate visuals for executive reporting.

  77. Thank you for your time and attention.

  78. To learn more, visit us at www.board.com.

Board FP&A Cash Flow Agent Demo

Explore how the Board FP&A Agent gives finance teams an always-on partner for cash flow and liquidity planning. Working within Board’s governed planning environment, the agent connects income statement, balance sheet and cash flow data to identify emerging liquidity risks, explain the drivers behind changes and evaluate funding or working-capital scenarios—so teams spend less time validating numbers and more time shaping confident financial decisions.