Finance¶

This domain describes the organization's financial data, processes, systems, and operational information.

Purpose¶

The domain provides the financial context required by other domains for planning, resource allocation, performance measurement, and decision making, and describes how financial information is created, recorded, reported, and used across the organization.

Scope¶

The Finance domain covers:

Revenue and expenditure
Cash flow and cash position
Budgets and budget variance
Accounts receivable and accounts payable
Financial reporting
Financial compliance and audit readiness
Financial systems
Financial documents
Financial metrics and KPIs

Systems and Data Sources¶

Accounting/ERP system/72HR
Bank accounts

Key Concepts¶

Established through the organizational ontology (see Concepts), applied here to the vocabulary of accounts, cost centres, budgets, and financial periods.

Metrics and KPIs¶

Canonical metrics and KPIs for this domain are maintained in the Data Dictionary and published at:

KPIs currently defined for this domain: Cash Position, Expenditure vs Budget, Receivables and Payables, and Revenue vs Budget.

Data Assets¶

Financial Records

Processes¶

To be documented as the 72 HR platform takes shape.

Finance provides the financial context consumed by Products, Projects, Sales & Marketing, People, and Technology & Engineering, particularly for revenue, cost, and budget related metrics that originate or are reconciled in Finance.