3. CEO Dashboard
The CEO Dashboard is the financial home base for a company. It summarizes performance and links out to every detailed view. Open it from the sidebar under Modules → CEO Dashboard.
- Main URL:
/a/<team-slug>/qbo/ - Available to 👁️ Members (read-only) and 👤 Admins, when the CEO Dashboard module is active.
3.1 What's on the main dashboard
The landing dashboard gives an at-a-glance picture of the business:
- Income and expense summary for the current period.
- Key metrics and KPIs (margins, headcount-aware ratios where configured).
- EBITDA snapshot with a link to the full EBITDA view.
- Quick links into the detailed dashboards below.
3.2 Detailed dashboards
Each area below is its own page, reachable from the dashboard or directly by URL.
| Page | URL | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Income | /qbo/income/ |
Revenue trends and income breakdown. |
| Expenses | /qbo/expenses/ |
Expense categories and spending trends. |
| Accounts Receivable (AR) | /qbo/ar/ |
What customers owe you, with aging and a period comparison. |
| Accounts Payable (AP) | /qbo/ap/ |
What you owe vendors, with aging and a period comparison. |
| Cash Flow | /qbo/cash-flow/ |
Cash runway, DSO/DPO, and a near-term cash outlook (see §3.4). |
| EBITDA | /qbo/ebitda/ |
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation & amortization, with adjustments (see §3.3). |
| Payroll | /qbo/payroll/ |
Payroll spend, sourced from the account(s) you select (see §3.5). |
| General Ledger | /qbo/gl/ |
Transaction-level detail; exportable. |
(URLs above are relative to /a/<team-slug>.)
3.3 EBITDA dashboard
EBITDA strips out financing and accounting effects to show core operating performance.
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A waterfall bridge walks from Net Income up to EBITDA, adding back interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
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Adjustments 👤 Admin — add, edit, or delete one-off "add-backs" (e.g., owner's non-recurring expenses) to compute Adjusted EBITDA. Use Add adjustment on the EBITDA page.
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Employee count 👤 Admin — set headcount so per-employee KPIs are accurate.
- Margin gauges and KPI cards summarize profitability at a glance.
3.4 Cash Flow dashboard
The Cash Flow page brings together three distinct, complementary numbers — don't confuse them:
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YTD-pace runway — how long cash lasts at your year-to-date burn rate (a backward-looking pace).
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90-day cash outlook — near-term inflows/outflows derived from your AR and AP.
- Statistical cash forecast — the forward-looking decision tool. For the full forecast and what-if scenarios, use the Forecasting module (see Forecasting).
The page also shows DSO (days sales outstanding) and DPO (days payable outstanding).
3.5 Payroll dashboard
Payroll spend is pulled from the QuickBooks account(s) you designate as payroll accounts.
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👤 Admin: set which accounts count as payroll on the payroll page (the account selection control). Once configured, OML uses exactly those accounts everywhere payroll appears — the dashboard, the cash-flow view, and forecast overlays.
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If you haven't configured accounts yet, OML falls back to keyword matching, which is less precise. Configuring the accounts is strongly recommended for accurate numbers.
3.6 TV / Executive mode
For a wall-display or boardroom view, open TV mode:
- URL:
/a/<team-slug>/qbo/tv/ - A clean, large-format summary of the company's headline KPIs and alerts, styled to match the rest of the app. Leave it running on a screen for an always-on snapshot.
3.7 Alerts
OML surfaces rule-based alerts when something needs attention (e.g., cash runway dropping, receivables aging, margin compression). Alerts appear in the alerts feed and in the global nav.
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👤 Admin: tune the thresholds that trigger alerts under the alert settings page (
/a/<team-slug>/alerts/settings/). See Settings & Your Account. -
You can dismiss or resolve individual alerts from the alerts feed.
Alerts are computed with deterministic rules from your synced financial data — there's no guesswork or external processing involved.