Revenue Trend
Test whether revenue follows a believable shape across the year.
- General ledger alone
- Compares with last year
How the result is read
A period carrying a wildly disproportionate share is either a genuine push or revenue pulled forward. The comparison is against the same period last year, never against an even twelfth — an even split is the wrong expectation for any business with a season.
The worksheet, on the demo engagement
Revenue Trend, as the application draws it for Harrow Precision Engineering Ltd, the fictional demo engagement — one row per fiscal period per segment.
- CY
- PY
- Total Revenue
- 64,200
- YoY
- +25.1%
- December
- 23% of FY
Result grid5 rows
| Segment | CY | PY | Delta % | % of total | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware | 27,700 | 19,400 | +42.8% | 43.1% | YoY swing |
| Software | 21,400 | 19,900 | +7.5% | 33.3% | |
| Spare parts | 1,200 | — | n/m | 1.9% | |
| Services | 13,900 | 12,000 | +15.8% | 21.7% | |
| Dec only (all seg) | 14,766 | 7,100 | +108% | 23.0% of FY | period-end conc. |
In the application
Revenue Trend is filed under Revenue & receivables, index letter C. "Run all analyses" runs it with every other analysis the ledger can answer. The worksheet states the population it tested on its face — or "Not applicable" with the reason when a column it depends on is empty — and the Excel workbook the engagement exports files it under C, beside an index of the source files with their SHA-256 fingerprints.
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One free engagement to evaluate, valid 60 days. The ledger never leaves the machine.
- 20 minutes
- Runs on a fictional engagement
- No client data required