Data-driven Management
True Profitability by Business Unit, Product and Project
How management accounting reveals real-time profitability that financial statements alone cannot show.
What financial statements do not reveal
A company may be profitable overall while losing money in a specific business unit, product or customer relationship.
- Common and indirect costs lack agreed allocation rules.
- Profitability by business unit or project is not available in real time.
- Revenue is visible, but its cost and contribution margin are not.
How Odoo addresses the problem
- Analytic Accounting aggregates profit by business unit, project and product.
- Allocation rules calculate contribution after indirect costs.
- Management dashboards track profitability in real time.
Designing the profitability model
- Define the smallest unit for profitability analysis.
- Agree on allocation rules for common costs.
- Build continuous dashboards instead of relying on monthly retrospective reports.