QuickBooks Online · Budget vs. Actual

Board-ready variance analysis from QuickBooks in minutes

Connect QuickBooks, load your budget, and VarianceDesk decomposes every variance by account, class and department — ranks the drivers, writes the commentary, and exports a polished board package.

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1

Connect QuickBooks

Authorize read-only access to your QuickBooks Online company.

2

Load your budget

Pull the budget from QuickBooks, or upload a CSV with our template.

3

Get the board package

Run the analysis and export a polished PDF + Excel in minutes.

Everything a board report needs

Variance by account, class & department

Every line decomposed: $ and % variance, direction-aware favorable / unfavorable, rolled up by class and department.

Driver ranking

The largest swings ranked by net-income impact, grouped into revenue, COGS and opex.

Net-income bridge

A waterfall from budgeted to actual net income — exactly what a board wants to see.

Automated commentary

Concise, board-style narrative grounded only in the numbers — no fabricated causes.

Materiality thresholds

Set dollar and percent thresholds to surface what matters and suppress the noise.

Board package export

A branded PDF and a multi-sheet Excel workbook, ready to drop into the board deck.

Your next board meeting, handled

Stop hand-building variance decks. Generate a defensible, board-ready package straight from QuickBooks.