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Finance data, engineered.

Power BI, business intelligence, data visualisation, AI for finance, predictive analytics, machine learning, a curated dashboard library and a full download centre — for Nigerian finance, audit and risk teams replacing spreadsheets with systems.

Power BI Business Intelligence Data Visualisation AI for Finance Predictive Analytics Machine Learning Dashboard Library Data Governance Download Centre

01 · Power BI

Power BI for finance & the boardroom.

Semantic Models

Star-schema, DAX measures and row-level security designed for CFO and board consumption.

Paginated Reports

Pixel-perfect statutory and management report templates ready for export and print.

Dataflows & Fabric

Power Query, Dataflows Gen2 and Microsoft Fabric lakehouse patterns for finance data.

Governance & Tenant

Workspace topology, deployment pipelines, sensitivity labels and capacity planning.

02 · Business Intelligence

From trial balance to single source of truth.

Finance Data Warehouse

Snowflake, BigQuery, Fabric — modelled with dbt and aligned to the chart of accounts.

KPI Library

Curated CFO, board, treasury, AR/AP, opex and revenue KPIs with definitions and owners.

Self-Service Analytics

Governed semantic layers that let business users explore without breaking the numbers.

Continuous Controls

Automated, exception-based monitoring across journals, payments, vendors and access.

03 · Data Visualisation

Charts that change decisions.

Executive scorecards & one-page board packs
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Variance and waterfall analysis (budget vs actual vs forecast)
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Cohort, retention and unit-economic visualisations
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Geo-spatial views for branch, agent and customer networks
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Risk heat-maps for credit, market and operational exposures
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Sankey, treemap and decomposition trees for revenue and cost
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04 · AI for Finance

AI inside the finance function.

Document Intelligence

Invoice, receipt and contract extraction with human-in-the-loop review.

Narrative Generation

Automated MD&A and variance commentary drafted from the underlying numbers.

Audit & Review Copilots

LLM-assisted journal-entry review, anomaly triage and policy-aligned testing.

Conversational FP&A

Natural-language querying over governed semantic models for fast what-if analysis.

05 · Predictive Analytics

Forecasts the board can defend.

Cash flow & liquidity forecasting (driver-based + ML augmentation)
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Revenue forecasting by product, region and customer segment
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Working-capital and DSO/DPO projections
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Credit risk scoring and expected-loss modelling
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Demand planning, inventory and replenishment optimisation
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Churn, lifetime value and customer-segment propensity
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06 · Machine Learning Applications

Models that earn their place in production.

Classification

Fraud, default, churn and onboarding-risk classifiers with explainability.

Regression & Time Series

Forecasting, anomaly detection and seasonality decomposition.

Clustering & Segmentation

Customer, vendor, transaction and behavioural clusters.

NLP & LLM Pipelines

Document extraction, classification, summarisation and retrieval-augmented generation.

07 · Dashboard Library

Production-grade dashboards, ready to adapt.

CFO Board Pack

Revenue · margin · cash · covenants

Treasury Liquidity Cockpit

Multi-bank balances · FX · maturity ladder

AR Collections Dashboard

DSO · ageing · promise-to-pay · disputes

AP & Spend Analytics

DPO · vendor concentration · early-pay

Sales & Pipeline Analytics

Pipeline · conversion · ASP · win-rate

HR & Workforce Analytics

Headcount · attrition · cost per FTE

Compliance Watchtower

Obligations · breaches · remediation

ESG & Sustainability

Scope 1/2/3 · social · governance KPIs

08 · Data Governance

The control plane behind every trusted dashboard.

Data Ownership & Stewardship

Clear accountability across CFO, CIO and business owners with a published RACI for every critical data domain.

Quality & Lineage

Defined quality rules, monitoring and end-to-end lineage from source system to board KPI.

Privacy & NDPA 2023

Lawful-basis mapping, DPIAs, retention schedules and cross-border transfer controls aligned to NDPC guidance.

Access & Security

Row- and object-level security, least-privilege roles, audit trails and AI-usage controls.

09 · Download Centre

Templates, scorecards & reference architectures.

ScorecardGated

Finance Data Maturity Scorecard (40-question)

18 pp

Template

Power BI CFO Board Pack — starter template

26 pp

GuideGated

Deploying LLMs in Finance without breaking NDPC

44 pp

Architecture

Reference Architecture: Tier-2 Bank on Microsoft Fabric

32 pp

BenchmarkGated

Nigerian Finance Stack Benchmark 2026

58 pp

Playbook

Continuous Controls Monitoring with dbt + Power BI

38 pp

Workbook

Driver-Based FP&A Workbook (12-driver model)

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Briefing

AI in Finance — Board Briefing Deck

28 pp

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Featured Data & AI Resources

CFO toolkit, AI guide & dashboards.

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Nigeria Economic Outlook 2026

Flagship annual outlook — stability, consolidation and strategic opportunity in Nigeria's reform-cycle economy.

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CFO Playbook for Nigerian Enterprises

Operating playbook for the modern Nigerian CFO — close, controls, reporting, analytics.

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Annual Tax Calendar Framework

CIT, VAT, WHT, PAYE filing cadences in one calendar.

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Nigeria Tax Outlook & Planning Guide 2026/2027 (Enhanced Edition)

The integrated flagship — landscape, 2026 reforms (before/after), the taxes in detail, sector & SME planning, worked scenarios, frameworks, dashboards, the Health Check, implementation roadmap and 2027 outlook.

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What analytics leaders are reading.

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Related Resources

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Guide

Power BI Executive Dashboard Guide

Reference designs and DAX patterns for board-grade executive dashboards.

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