ILLUSTRATIVE · FICTITIOUS COMPANY · DEMONSTRATION
Compass Planning Group

Meridian Fabrication Co.

Contract Metal Fabrication · Financial Performance Dashboard
Illustrative demo

Prepared by Compass Planning Group
Revenue Trend
Monthly net sales, trailing 36 months
Quarterly Revenue & Gross Margin
Volume keeps climbing while margin swings
The Margin Story — Gross Margin vs. Steel Cost
Monthly gross margin (left) inversely tracks the raw-steel cost per ton (right). Margin compresses across three straight quarters as steel spikes, then partially recovers after the mid-2025 price increase and supplier renegotiation.

Quarterly P&L

USD · 12 quarters
Margin Analysis
Gross margin % and EBITDA margin % by quarter
Operating Expenses by Category
Quarterly OpEx (excl. D&A), stacked

Monthly P&L

USD · 36 months · scroll for detail
Working Capital Balances
AR, AP and inventory by month — last 12 months. Working capital tightens through 2025 as margins compress, then eases.
AR Aging
Open receivables by age bucket · as of
Largest Open Balances by Client
Share of total open AR

Open Invoices

Individual receivables · sorted by days past due
Top 12 Clients — Revenue & Gross Margin
Period revenue (bars, ) with trailing-12-month gross margin overlaid (line). Note the large, thin-margin accounts vs. smaller high-margin shops.
RevenueGross margin % (TTM)
Revenue Concentration
Share of period revenue by client tier

Client Detail

All active clients · revenue by period, YoY, margin, open AR

Sales by State

Trailing 12 months · six-state Eastern footprint
Revenue Concentration
Shaded by trailing-12-month revenue
State Detail
TTM revenue, share, and year-over-year change

Project Valuator

Generic capital-project evaluation · preloaded with an equipment example

Example loaded

A new CNC press brake & fiber-laser cell that lowers conversion cost per ton. Edit any input — cash flows, discount rate, or investment — and every metric and the sensitivity tables recompute live.

Sensitivity — Discount Rate
NPV as the discount rate varies; zero-crossing ≈ IRR
Sensitivity — Cash-Flow Variation
NPV if every projected inflow shifts by ±%