Kangarootime's executive dashboards give leadership a clear, real-time view of how your organization is performing—no digging through spreadsheets or piecing together reports required. This article walks you through the two dashboards available to executive users and what each one is designed to help you do.
- Executive Metrics surfaces key performance indicators across your organization, so you can quickly assess enrollment, revenue, attendance, and other vital signs at a glance.
- Executive Planning shifts the focus forward, helping you forecast, set targets, and make data-informed decisions about where your organization is headed.
Together, these dashboards turn your day-to-day operational data into insights you can actually act on. Read on to learn how to access each dashboard and make the most of what they offer.
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Executive Metrics
The Executive Metrics report offers a comprehensive comparison of the current year's enrollment and revenue performance versus the previous year, helping to illuminate both trends and drivers of change across your schools. Yearly comparisons can be filtered by calendar year, quarter, or a custom range, providing flexibility in how yearly time frames are viewed.
Key Features:
- Enrollment & Revenue Comparison: Track changes in average weekly enrollment and total revenue, benchmarked against the prior year to easily identify areas of growth or decline.
- Tuition Analysis: View the percentage of full tuition-paying students per school, allowing for targeted assessments of pricing strategies and discounting impact.
- Retention vs. New Enrollment Breakdown: Gain visibility into student population dynamics with separate views for retained and newly enrolled families.
- Drill-In Capability for Deeper Insights: Drill-in reports enable users to explore data by School Tags, School, and Class
Purpose & Benefit:
This report is designed to provide actionable data that supports better decision-making, improves forecasting, and identifies opportunities for program improvement and enrollment strategies.
Executive Planning
The Executive Planning report is a tool for business stakeholders looking to model growth and forecast the impact of strategic decisions. This report combines historical trend analysis with interactive "What-If" scenario modeling, enabling leaders to project how changes in tuition, enrollment, and expansion would affect revenue across their schools.
Key Features:
- What-If Scenario Modeling: Adjust key business drivers like enrollment rates, tuition pricing, and discount levels, and instantly see the projected impact on revenue and student counts compared to the actual numbers of your current period.
- Expansion Planning: Model the revenue impact of adding new schools or classes, with configurable enrollment-per-school and enrollment-per-class assumptions to support growth planning.
- Cash Flow & Revenue Trends: Track how what-if scenario changes flow through to monthly revenue streams, helping leaders forecast the financial impact of tuition, enrollment, and expansion decisions over a selected timeframe.
- Actionable Insights & Health Indicators: Find the light bulb icons and hover over to surface detailed insights with built-in recommendations. Tuition insights show gross tuition, discounts, and net tuition per student per week, along with a discount rate health gauge that flags when discounting may be impacting revenue. Enrollment insights show utilization rate, waitlist-to-enrollment ratio, and potential viable classes estimated from waitlist demand to help you identify where there's room to grow and inform your what-if scenario planning.
- Downloadable Impact Analysis: Export detailed period-vs-modeled comparison tables showing gross tuition, discounts, net tuition, and enrollment breakdowns. This allows you to save and compare multiple planning scenarios such as conservative, baseline, and aggressive growth projections.
Purpose & Benefit:
This report is designed to support strategic planning by giving leaders a clear view of where they've been and the tools to model where they're headed. It helps inform decisions around pricing, discounting, expansion, and enrollment strategy. As part of the Executive Suite, Executive Planning works hand-in-hand with Executive Metrics. Use Executive Planning to understand your historical performance and map out your growth strategy, then use Executive Metrics to monitor progress and identify trends along the way.
Please contact helpdesk@kangarootime.com if you have any questions.