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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Connect QuickBooks
Authorize read-only access to your QuickBooks Online company.
Load your budget
Pull the budget from QuickBooks, or upload a CSV with our template.
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.