Good reporting vs bad reporting

Item	Bad	Good
Manipulating data	Exporting data into Excel and fighting with formulas. Manually manipulating data that’s prone to mistakes. Spending hours wading through numbers, rather than actioning it.	Clear reporting in an easy-to-use dashboard that can be sliced and diced in real-time, in one view.
Trends overtime	Viewing data that’s already out of date. Seeing a snapshot of data and manually updating it every time.	Bang up to date numbers pulling from the latest data in your HR and payroll system. View analytics such as cost trends, spikes in overtime, and contractor or casual staff influx trends.
Source of data truth	Spending time checking and validating data. Working across departments to see if numbers ‘marry up’. Worrying pay/compensation numbers aren’t reflective of payroll actuals.	All teams working from one source of data truth, in one system.
Access levels	Saving sensitive data in SharePoint for anyone to access and breaching confidentiality.	Customise reporting access to the levels you like, giving access to who you want.