FP&A Modeling
Organize your financial data once. Use it everywhere.
Limelight’s FP&A model structures your accounts, hierarchies, dimensions, and rollups so finance teams can plan, report, and analyze from one trusted foundation.
FP&A Modeling Designed for Finance
Before finance teams can plan faster, forecast with confidence, or report accurately, they need a model that reflects how the business actually works.
Structure financial data around the business
Organize accounts, departments, entities, funds, programs, locations, customers, vendors, employees, and other dimensions in one finance-owned model.
Create reporting hierarchies and rollups
Keep every output aligned
When the model changes, every report, dashboard, forecast, and budget update is from the same structure, giving finance more accuracy and control.
Account hierarchies & rollups
Group accounts, departments, entities, funds, programs, and business units into roll-ups for management reporting, board reporting, and planning.
- Build account groupings for revenue, expenses, margins, and KPIs
- Create rollups for departments, entities, funds, programs, or business units
- Update structures once and use them across reports and analysis
Keep data, structure, and logic in one place
Bring source-system data into a finance-owned model that keeps accounts, mappings, assumptions, and reporting structures aligned.
- Integrate actuals from ERP and accounting systems
- Auto-consolidate data across dimensions and business areas
- Improve accuracy by reducing manual mapping and disconnected files
Analyze the business from every angle
Structure financial and operational data across the dimensions that matter to your organization.
- View performance by department, entity, fund, program, customer, vendor, employee, or scenario
- Use the same model across actuals, budgets, forecasts, and reports
- Drill into the level of detail finance needs with one click.
The Switch Was Worth It!
Teams move faster, trust the numbers, and spend far less time buried in spreadsheets.
The modern Excel interface made adoption easy, while automation eliminated manual reporting and made forecasting faster and more reliable.
Pauline Poompan
Frequently Asked Questions about Modern FP&A
What is FP&A modeling?
FP&A modeling is how finance teams structure accounts, dimensions, hierarchies, rollups, and business logic so planning, reporting, forecasting, and analysis all run from one consistent model.
What are dimensions in FP&A modeling?
Dimensions are the ways finance teams view and analyze the business, such as department, entity, fund, program, customer, vendor, employee, location, scenario, or year. In Limelight, dimensions let teams plan and report from different angles without rebuilding separate files.
How is Limelight’s FP&A model different from Excel?
Excel can analyze data with formulas and pivots, but it does not centrally structure accounts, dimensions, logic, and rollups. Limelight gives finance teams an Excel-like experience with one centralized model, so every plan, report, and analysis updates from the same trusted structure.
How does Limelight help with account hierarchies and rollups?
With Limelight, you can organize accounts into reporting views like revenue, expenses, EBITDA, departments, funds, or programs. When a hierarchy or rollup changes, reports and budgets update from the same model.
How does FP&A modeling improve reporting accuracy?
Limelight reduces manual mapping and disconnected files by running data, dimensions, plans, and reports from one structure.