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Creating financial analyses with Claude

17 August 2026

Last updated: August 20, 2026

Besides single questions, you can also have your AI assistant create real analyses: a cash flow forecast, a margin overview or an ageing analysis. To do this, the assistant combines data from your entire administration into useful insight, without you having to set up or export reports yourself.

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From a single question to real analysis

An ordinary question gives you an answer from your records. An analysis goes a step further: the assistant combines several pieces of data, such as outstanding items, due dates, revenue and purchase value, into an overview with a conclusion. You ask for it in plain language and get the insight back, without setting up a report yourself, placing columns side by side or exporting.

These deeper analyses use the Analytics subscription, which is built to calculate across larger amounts of data. You run them on demand: you request the analysis when you need it. Below is what each analysis does, which data goes into it and what you get back.

The analyses at a glance

Cash flow forecast

 

Projects how much money will come in and go out over the coming months, so you can plan ahead: is there room for a large purchase, or is a tight month coming up?

Which data
Your current cash position as a starting point, your outstanding accounts receivable and payable on their due dates, and your average cash flow over the past months as a baseline.
What you get back
An expected balance for each month, with a short conclusion about the month in which it becomes tightest.
Example: "Create a cash flow forecast for the coming 3 months based on outstanding accounts receivable and payable."

Accounts receivable ageing analysis

 

Shows how long your invoices have been outstanding and which customers are building up payment risk. An ideal basis for following up on your receivables, because you know right away who to approach first.

Which data
All your outstanding sales invoices with their due dates, grouped per customer.
What you get back
The amounts split by age (0 to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and 90 days or older), with the largest risk items highlighted.
Example: "Give an ageing analysis of my accounts receivable and name the largest risk items."

Gross margin per product group

 

Shows your margin per product group and reveals where it drops the fastest, as a basis for pricing and purchasing decisions.

Which data
Your revenue per product group and the associated purchase value over the chosen period.
What you get back
The gross margin per group, with the sharpest fallers highlighted.
Example: "Calculate my gross margin per product group and show where it drops the fastest."

Costs year-on-year

 

Compares your costs with the same period last year and points out the largest deviations, so you can quickly see which items are out of line.

Which data
Your actual costs per general ledger account for the chosen period and for the same period a year earlier.
What you get back
The costs per general ledger account alongside last year, with the largest differences explained.
Example: "Compare my actual costs per general ledger account with last year and explain the largest deviations."

Smart payments

 

Determines which invoices you can pay later without missing a due date, so you keep money in your account longer.

Which data
Your outstanding creditors with their due dates.
What you get back
An overview of which payments you can postpone and until what date.
Example: "Which suppliers can I pay later without missing a due date?"

Working capital in key figures

 

Calculates your DSO (how quickly you get paid on average), your DPO (how quickly you pay yourself) and your working capital requirement, and compares it with the previous quarter.

Which data
Your outstanding accounts receivable and accounts payable, your revenue and purchasing over the period, and your stock if you carry any, plus the same figures from the previous quarter.
What you get back
Your DSO, DPO and working capital requirement, with the change compared to the previous quarter.
Example: "Calculate my DSO, DPO and working capital requirement and compare it with the previous quarter."

This is what an answer looks like

Here is a worked-out aging analysis as an illustration. You get the other analyses back in the same clear format: first the figures, then a short conclusion.

An aging analysis of accounts receivable as an answer in the chat, with the amounts per aging category and a conclusion
An aging analysis of your accounts receivable: the amounts per aging category, with the largest risk items highlighted.

Asking follow-up questions about your analysis

An analysis is not an endpoint. You can immediately ask follow-up questions without running the analysis again. For example:

1"Give an aging analysis of my accounts receivable."
2"Focus on the items older than 60 days."
3"Draft a payment reminder for those customers."

This way you move from an analysis to a concrete next step. If that becomes a writing action, such as drafting a reminder, it first comes ready as a draft that you approve. Want to view an analysis more often without requesting it again? Then you turn it into a dashboard.

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Frequently asked questions

The deeper analyses use the Analytics subscription, which is built to calculate across larger amounts of data. Single questions and short overviews can be asked in any subscription.

The analysis calculates with your live Exact Online figures at the moment you request it. So you are not working with an earlier export.

Yes. You can zoom in on a part, choose a different period or ask a follow-up step, without running the analysis all over again.

No. You ask for the analysis in plain language and the assistant gathers the required data itself. You do not have to build a report or export data.

The example comes from a sample administration and only shows what an answer looks like. In your own analysis you see your real figures from Exact Online.

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