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Business Reports

Transactions, Profit & Loss, Cashflow, Tax, VAT, supplier spending, and an evidence-based efficiency score — all in one hub.

Business Reports

Go to Business Reports (reached via Back to Dashboard from most finance screens). Reports are grouped into three sections: Financial Reports, Supplier & VAT Reports, and Analytics.

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Transactions
All income and expenditure
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Profit & Loss
P&L statement and profitability
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Cashflow
Cash flow analysis and forecasting
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Tax Report
Tax calculations and submissions
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VAT Returns
Redirects to the Finance Dashboard
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Aged Payables
Outstanding bills by ageing period
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Supplier Spending
Analytics and trends by supplier
Efficiency Analyser
Team productivity and revenue per hour
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Important — Quick Start placeholder expenses currently distort four of these reports. The QS Rent / QS Utilities / QS Insurance / QS Other categories entered to seed the pricing calculator (and meant to be deleted once real expense data exists) are being treated as genuine business expenditure by Profit & Loss, Cashflow, Tax Report, and Supplier Spending. If you've recently completed Quick Start setup and haven't yet deleted those placeholder entries, expect these four reports to show misleadingly large losses until you do. Aged Payables and Efficiency Analyser are unaffected.

Transactions

Click Transactions to view every income and expenditure transaction in a date range, with a Start Date and End Date picker and Generate Report, Export For, and Export controls common to most reports in this hub.

Transactions report — summary cards, income breakdown by payment type, expense breakdown by category, supplier analysis

Transactions — Summary cards, Income Breakdown by Type, Expense Breakdown by Category, and Supplier Analysis

The Summary shows Total Income, Total Expenses, and Net Position for the selected period. Below it, Income Breakdown by Type splits income into Cash, Card, and Voucher with transaction counts and totals; Expense Breakdown by Category and Supplier Analysis do the same from the expenditure side.


Profit & Loss

Click Profit & Loss for a proper P&L statement over a date range: Gross Income, Total Expenses, Net Profit, and Profit Margin as headline figures, followed by an Income Breakdown and Expense Breakdown each split out by type or category with Gross, VAT, and Net columns.

Profit and Loss report — gross income, total expenses, net profit, profit margin, income and expense breakdown tables

Profit & Loss — headline figures and a full income/expense breakdown with VAT split out

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If Quick Start expense categories (QS Rent, QS Utilities, QS Insurance, QS Other) haven't been deleted yet, they'll appear here as real expenditure and can produce an alarming-looking net loss and negative profit margin — this isn't a reflection of your actual trading position. Delete the QS placeholder entries once real expense data is flowing in, and this report will reflect reality.

Cashflow

Click Cashflow for a forward-looking cash position. Set a date range and a number of Forecast Months Ahead, then Generate Forecast.

Cashflow report — current cash position, forecast summary, monthly cashflow projections, detailed monthly breakdown

Cashflow — current position, forecast summary, and a month-by-month projection

Current Cash Position, Report Period, and Account sit at the top, followed by a Forecast Summary (Starting Balance, Projected Income, Projected Expenses, Ending Balance), a Monthly Cashflow Projections table, and a Detailed Monthly Breakdown card per forecast month.

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This forecast is built directly from the same expense data as Profit & Loss — if Quick Start placeholder expenses are still present, the forecast will project the same costs repeating every month, producing a deeply negative running balance that doesn't reflect what's actually likely to happen. Treat any forecast on an account with undeleted QS data as unreliable until those entries are removed.

Tax Report

Click Tax Report and select a Tax Year (a progress bar shows how far through the year you are). The report calculates Total Tax Due, Monthly Requirement, and National Insurance, with full Income Summary, Income Tax Breakdown by band, National Insurance Breakdown by class, and Payment Requirements.

Tax Report — total tax due, monthly requirement, national insurance, income summary, tax band breakdown, NI breakdown, payment requirements

Tax Report — full income tax and National Insurance breakdown, with a recommended monthly set-aside

FigureWhat it means
Taxable IncomeGross Income minus Total Expenses for the tax year
Monthly Set-aside RecommendationAnnual liability divided evenly across 12 months
Adjusted Monthly RequirementThe same liability divided across however many months remain in the tax year — higher if you're starting partway through
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Like Profit & Loss and Cashflow, this report's Total Expenses and Taxable Income figures inherit any undeleted Quick Start placeholder expenses — check those are cleared out before relying on this report's numbers for real planning.
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Tax bands, NI thresholds, and rates shown here are set by HMRC and reviewed annually — this report is only as current as its underlying rate tables.

VAT Returns

Clicking VAT Returns from this hub takes you straight to the Finance Dashboard's VAT tab, rather than opening a separate report here. See Finance Dashboard for VAT Monitoring, thresholds, and VAT Liabilities in full.


Aged Payables

Click Aged Payables for a cross-supplier view of everything you currently owe, broken into ageing bands. This report draws only from real unpaid bills, so it isn't affected by the Quick Start data issue described above.

Aged Payables Report — Current, 1-30, 31-60, 61-90, 90+ days bands, total outstanding, and outstanding by supplier

Aged Payables — outstanding totals by age band, individual unpaid invoices, and a per-supplier summary

Full detail on adding and paying bills is covered in Bills & Suppliers — this report is just the cross-supplier rollup of what's recorded there.


Supplier Spending

Click Supplier Spending for spending analytics across all suppliers, with a Time Range selector and three sub-tabs: Monthly Trends, Top Suppliers, and Category Breakdown.

Supplier Spending Analytics — Monthly Trends, bar chart and line chart, total spending, average monthly, peak month

Monthly Trends — spending by month as a bar chart and trend line, with Total, Average, and Peak Month summary cards

Supplier Spending Analytics — Top Suppliers, horizontal bar chart ranking suppliers by total spend

Top Suppliers — ranks every supplier (and Quick Start Setup, if undeleted) by total spend

Supplier Spending Analytics — Category Breakdown, donut chart and category details list

Category Breakdown — a donut chart and list of every expenditure category by total

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If Quick Start expenses haven't been deleted, they show up here explicitly — Top Suppliers will list "Quick Start Setup" as if it were a real supplier, often dwarfing every genuine supplier on the chart, and Category Breakdown will list QS Rent, QS Utilities, QS Insurance, and QS Other by name alongside real categories. Useful in one sense — it's an easy way to spot whether QS data still needs clearing — but treat any totals here as unreliable until it's gone.

Efficiency Analyser

Click Efficiency Analyser for an evidence-based score built from your actual performance data — revenue per hour, client throughput, and average ticket value, each measured against a target. Choose an Analysis Period, then move through six tabs: Overview, Opportunities, Team Performance, Patterns, M&B Benchmark, and Scenario Builder.

Business Efficiency Analyser — overview tab, efficiency score, score breakdown, revenue per hour, clients per hour, average ticket cards

Overview — an overall Efficiency Score out of 100, broken into Revenue Performance, Client Throughput, and Ticket Value

Score Breakdown

Three weighted components make up the overall score:

ComponentWeight
Revenue Performance40%
Client Throughput30%
Ticket Value30%

Below the score, three cards show Revenue Per Hour, Clients Per Hour, and Average Ticket, each with a Current figure, a Target, and the gap between them as both an amount and a percentage.

Opportunities

The Opportunities tab lists "Your Top 3 Opportunities" with a combined annual potential value, each tagged by Impact (High/Medium/Low) and Effort (High/Medium/Low) required to capture it.

Efficiency Analyser — Top 3 Opportunities, combined potential value, impact and effort tags, The Reality panel

Top 3 Opportunities — ranked by combined annual potential, each tagged by impact and effort

A panel titled The Reality frames these opportunities as fully within the salon's own control — no VAT cut, government intervention, or external factor required — and notes the analysis is built from the account's actual employee income records, not industry averages.

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This analysis is only as meaningful as the data behind it. On an account with only a handful of real transactions recorded, the targets, gaps, and "annual opportunity" figures shown will be based on a very small sample — treat early results as illustrative rather than a firm benchmark until more real trading data has accumulated.

Other tabs

Team Performance, Patterns, M&B Benchmark, and Scenario Builder haven't been walked through yet — these will be added once reviewed against the live screens.