01ProjectBusiness Intelligence / Profitability / Decision Support01 — 08

P&L
Intelligence

Understanding profitability
to support better decisions.

Executive P&LIllustrative
Net revenue€6.84M
Gross margin57.2%
EBIT6.0%
JANAPRJULOCTDEC

A profitability intelligence system designed to explain what changed, why it changed, and what the business should do next.

01 / What happened?

P&L actual
Budget
Previous month
Previous year

Understand the result.

02 / Why?

Revenue & mix
COGS
Operations
Marketing & structure

Identify the drivers.

03 / What next?

Short-term corrections
Medium-term improvements
Long-term profitability

Turn insight into action.

Executive P&L

Actual · FY2026 · Synthetic reconstruction

Illustrative
LineValue% NR
Gross revenue€7.48M100.0%
Discounts−€0.47M−6.3%
Returns & cancellations−€0.17M−2.3%
Net revenue€6.84M91.4%
Product cost / COGS−€2.93M−42.8%
Gross margin€3.91M57.2%
Logistics−€0.47M−6.9%
Incidences / recovery−€0.11M−1.6%
Marketing−€0.60M−8.8%
Contribution margin€2.73M39.9%
Payroll−€1.74M−25.4%
Fixed costs−€0.58M−8.5%
EBIT€0.41M6.0%
Project statusCurrent stage — Power BI reconstruction

The analytical logic is reconstructed from a real business problem. All figures shown are synthetic to avoid exposing confidential company data.

Next → Data model · DAX · Executive dashboard
Sales

Volume · Price · Discount · Channel mix

Product

COGS · Supplier changes · Category mix

Operations

Logistics · Returns · Incidences · Recovery

Structure

Marketing · Payroll · Fixed costs · Productivity

Questions explored

  1. 01

    Is the business generating sustainable profit?

  2. 02

    Which drivers explain month-to-month changes in EBIT?

  3. 03

    What should each business area do next?

Data & methodology

Inputs

Sales & discounts
COGS
Logistics & incidences
Marketing
Payroll & fixed costs

Analysis

P&L modelling
Variance analysis
Margin decomposition
Budget comparisons

Tools

Power BI · DAX
SQL thinking
Data modelling
Synthetic data

From insight to action

Reporting profitability is only useful if it changes decisions. The goal is to connect financial outcomes with the commercial, operational and structural levers that can improve them.

Understand the result.
Find the driver.
Decide what to change.
This project demonstrates

Business Intelligence · P&L Analysis · Data Modelling · DAX · Business Strategy

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