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Close Analytics, Made Actionable: Introducing the Stacks Dashboard

Close Analytics, Made Actionable: Introducing the Stacks Dashboard

Written by

Naman Mathur

Published on

June 24, 2025

Month-end just got a whole lot clearer. 

We’ve been listening and building. Today, we're excited to share how we’re reimagining what a truly useful dashboard looks like for finance teams.

With the new Stacks Dashboard, you get instant visibility into close progress, outstanding tasks, anomalies, and material movements—all in one place.

This isn't just another widget. It's a purpose-built way to review, manage, and steer your close with more clarity and control than ever before.

Not All Tasks Are Created Equal

Traditional dashboards treat every task the same. But in reality, some are done in minutes—especially with AI-powered tools from Stacks—and others can take days as teams wait on upstream data or approvals.

That’s why our dashboard doesn’t just count tasks completed vs. pending. It visualizes:

  • Time spent, not just task count

  • Weighted progress, to reflect actual effort

  • Variability across categories, so no task is overlooked

You get a more realistic and trustworthy picture of your team’s momentum.

Break It Down by Task Type, Preparer, and Category

Controllers don’t need more data—they need the right perspective. Our dashboard offers segmented views by:

  • Task type

  • Owner/preparer

  • Close checklist category

This makes it easy to:

  • Identify bottlenecks

  • Rebalance work

  • Start the right conversations with cross-functional teams

  • Know where to spend your attention

A Bird’s Eye View, Evolving in Real-Time

Think of the dashboard as a control tower. Not just what’s done, but how the close is really unfolding.

Soon, we’ll be introducing:

  • Dependency-aware tracking, so you can see who’s blocked and who’s critical path

  • "On track" signals, not just counts

  • Persistent filters, so when you toggle from dashboard to checklist, your context stays with you

Delivered Where Work Happens: #close-progress

Each team has a channel like #close-progress. So we asked, why not deliver dashboard insights directly there?

Now, your key daily metrics—progress updates, bottlenecks, and milestone markers—arrive as a Slack digest. The dashboard is now part of your real-time workflow.

Coming Soon: My Focus Dashboard

We’re also working on a more personalized dashboard view that highlights what you need to focus on.

Think of it as the "My Focus" experience from the checklist—but applied across the entire close landscape.

Have Feedback? We’re Listening.

We built the new dashboard to give you clarity and control over the close. But we’re just getting started.

If there's a view you're missing, an insight you'd love to surface, or an idea to make this better, we’d love to hear from you.

GET DEMO

See how Stacks works.

We'd love to show you how Stacks can help save days by automating your month-end close.

Trusted by fast-growing companies including:

“Since using Stacks, we've reduced the time to financial close by three and a half days, which is material in our case. And more importantly, we've been able to utilize our resources more effectively.”

Ruben A.

CFO at Juni

GET DEMO

See how Stacks works.

We'd love to show you how Stacks can help save days by automating your month-end close.

Trusted by fast-growing companies including:

“Since using Stacks, we've reduced the time to financial close by three and a half days, which is material in our case. And more importantly, we've been able to utilize our resources more effectively.”

Ruben A.

CFO at Juni

GET DEMO

See how Stacks works.

We'd love to show you how Stacks can help save days by automating your month-end close.

Trusted by fast-growing companies including:

“Since using Stacks, we've reduced the time to financial close by three and a half days, which is material in our case. And more importantly, we've been able to utilize our resources more effectively.”

Ruben A.

CFO at Juni