{"id":18691,"date":"2025-02-20T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.board.com\/customer\/optimized-reporting-forecasting-rtl\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T21:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:57:01","slug":"optimized-reporting-forecasting-rtl","status":"publish","type":"case-study","link":"https:\/\/www.board.com\/customer\/optimized-reporting-forecasting-rtl","title":{"rendered":"Optimized Reporting and Forecasting at RTL"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section id=\"block_e654f7a0b0ccada8e84b63d34ddbda53-\" class=\"block hero-case-study position-relative block-margin-bottom\">\n\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1920x600_header-customers-page_rtl-nederland-1600x500.jpg\" class=\"hero-bg-fw wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1920x600_header-customers-page_rtl-nederland-1600x500.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1920x600_header-customers-page_rtl-nederland-768x240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1920x600_header-customers-page_rtl-nederland-1536x480.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1920x600_header-customers-page_rtl-nederland-480x150.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1920x600_header-customers-page_rtl-nederland-215x67.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1920x600_header-customers-page_rtl-nederland-572x179.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1920x600_header-customers-page_rtl-nederland.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n\t\t<div class=\"overlay-gradient\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"breadcrumb-bar bg-brand-pearl\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"d-flex flex-wrap list-unstyled mb-0 breadcrumbs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"mb-0 d-flex\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.board.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"display-2\">Optimized Reporting and Forecasting at RTL<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><p>Improving financial visibility and forecast accuracy for faster decision-making<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section id=\"block_eb197ef7e1caf91fdd454fd43c860c30-2\" class=\"block block--spc block-content-case-study single-page__post\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"d-lg-none container\">\n\t\t\t\t<aside class=\"company-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"company-info__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/logo_trimmed_rtl-5-768x768.png\" alt=\"RTL Netherlands Logo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"company-info__section\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Company stats<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"list-unstyled company-info__list list-with-ticks\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb-0\"><strong>Industry: <\/strong>Publishing &amp; Media<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb-0\"><strong>Department: <\/strong>Finance<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb-0\"><strong>Revenue: <\/strong>\u20ac476 million<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb-0\"><strong>Audience Share: <\/strong>31.7%<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"company-info__section\">\n\t\t\t<h2>In partnership with<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"company-info__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/axians_logo.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/aside>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"container container--narrow\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-7 single-page__post-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p>Faced with a growing number of legal entities and stakeholders, the finance team at RTL Nederland was experiencing several challenges in consolidating and presenting financial data. Looking to standardize reporting and forecasting, remove reliance on spreadsheets, and increase efficiency across the team, the company chose to implement the <strong>Board Intelligent Planning Platform<\/strong>. Now, with Board, RTL Nederland has <strong>full financial visibility across all business entities in a fraction of the time<\/strong>, a <strong>faster, more flexible approach to forecasting<\/strong>, and a <strong>consistent set of processes<\/strong> across the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t<section class=\"block block--spc columns-block wp-block-acf-testimonial-single\" id=\"block_ec4919e4fc101951b38934e6e23ec123\"\t\tclass=\"\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<article class=\"card card--testimonial\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"testimonial-quote\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"testimonial-quote__wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We have changed our way of working in the Controlling and Reporting departments from Excel to a tool, an automation, where we are able to work even better than before.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"testimonial-info-bottom\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"testimonial-data\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"testimonial-name\">Gerben De Birk<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"testimonial-job-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"testimonial-role\">Senior Business Controller<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<p>RTL Nederland is a subsidiary of media giant RTL Group, one of the largest TV, radio, and production companies in Europe. The company operates numerous well-known TV channels and digital brands including RTL Nieuws, RTL XL, Buienradar, and Videoland, as well as investing in Dutch and international films.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Challenge: Disparate financial processes across a complex organizational structure<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p>With such a wide range of activities taking place under the numerous RTL Nederland (RTL) brands, the broadcaster\u2019s finance department faced several challenges in producing a unified set of reports and forecasts, as Gerben de Birk, Senior Business Controller at RTL, explains:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cIn Finance, we have multiple legal entities to combine and consolidate to get through our reporting. But as the activities are also very different from each other \u2013 an online video platform is so different from a TV channel with different types of revenue and cost \u2013 it\u2019s very hard to have one standard P&#038;L which can be used for all activities throughout the organization.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>These various entities also have their own managers and board members, each requiring different levels of support and information from the finance team, as Gerben continues:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cWe have many stakeholders, both internal and external, as we are part of RTL Group in Luxembourg which is interested in our financial performance. Within the Netherlands we also have some matrix organizations, so sometimes it\u2019s not always a horizontal or vertical loop &#8211; it can be both ways. This makes it really complex if you work without an automated system.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Financial reporting was traditionally conducted using a <strong>complex manual process in Excel<\/strong>, which involved the downloading of data from the SAP ERP system, addition of information from subsidiaries and placement in a conversion table, data validation, creation of a pivot table, checking of the layout, pasting of reporting figures into a reporting file, and final reconciliation using SAP. Each reporting sheet became bigger as the company grew, making them extremely slow to open and reaching the limits of the company\u2019s hardware.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cFor external reporting especially, we were depending on an Excel file with almost 160 sheets, and most of the sheets were over 500 rows. Even the input sheet extended to a few thousand rows. You can imagine that this file was growing in size, containing a lot of formulas which made your computer work really hard just opening or recalculating everything in the file. It took us around 15-30 minutes just to get the report and the consolidated figure ready. Mistakes could be made if you were not looking really carefully at your data,\u201d says Gerben.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>There was a similar process in the Controlling department when creating P&amp;Ls for each business unit, which would often create confusion when controllers or business managers moved to other areas of the organization:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cEach controller had their own way to download or extract the data, but everybody works in their own way. There was no standardized layout. And because you\u2019re working with Excel and the organization is constantly changing, it\u2019s hard to catch up if you need to re-do all your layouts, pivots, and formulas,\u201d continues Gerben.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Producing financial forecasts was also challenging, requiring business controllers to manually compute the forecast versus their budget, upload the data to an Excel template, and send it for consolidation.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cThe reporting department was receiving the Excel files, but we have several controllers who were each receiving multiple files. They needed to process them all into one master file which, again, required a lot of copying and pasting of data, with the risk that some bits and pieces were getting lost. When they had consolidated all the input, there was some manual analysis on the variations. You could work with some simple Excel formulas or pivot tables, but again, it was hard to get the right details when there had been big changes.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Solution: Standardized reporting and forecasting in Board<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p>It was clear to RTL that a new, robust solution was required that would provide faster access to more detailed information and create reporting consistency across multiple teams and divisions. Working with Board Partner, Axians, the Board Intelligent Planning Platform was selected as the platform of choice to drive the change.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n&#8220;The solution met our requirements and wishes, the price-quality ratio was good, and Axians&#8217; Smart Finance approach appealed to us. We actively involved our finance colleagues in the decision. They all saw the proof of concepts and together we took the decision. As a result, there is broad support for the solution,&#8221; Gerben continues.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>To ensure the transformation to the new way of working went smoothly, RTL involved key stakeholders throughout the project. Gerben provides some key advice for those embarking on a similar journey:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s very important to reconcile with everybody in your business unit and your company. The change to a more automated system is designed to support everyone, so you will need the support of everyone. Definitely propose what you are planning to do and show what you are doing with your team. We showed them right from the first demo, and now everybody is happily using it.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Benefits: Immediate access to data, increased insights, and greater flexibility<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Automatically bringing together data from multiple sources business-wide, Board became a Single Point of Truth for all analysis and reporting at RTL, transforming day-to-day activities for the finance team and delivering numerous improvements over the old way of working.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Replacing Excel with a standardized approach<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Access to accurate data in a fast, consistent manner is one of the key benefits RTL has realized through the use of Board, as Gerben explains:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t use Excel for reporting anymore. Nowadays, we have all the reports available in the same system, using the same data source. The Reporting department and the Controlling department are using Board. All reports have a standardized layout, so everybody is immediately familiar with what they are looking at.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This standardization ensures everyone is always on the same page, with a unified view of what\u2019s happening in the business:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cThe biggest benefit is that the data is now readily available to everyone. We have a daily upload from SAP to Board, then Board makes the data immediately available and everybody can look at it. During the month-end close, or at other times when you need a swift overview of the latest data, we can trigger the upload process and it only takes a few moments before we can continue with our analysis.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><strong><em>Greater business insight in a fraction of the time <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Multiple new views of the data can also now be accessed with ease, as Board offers the flexibility to examine it from different perspectives using interactive reports or dashboards. This includes bringing in non-financial data from other departments to link financial decisions with operational metrics:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cWe now have the possibility to make the dashboards directly available beside our P&#038;L or financial figures. This saves time in handling data to make reports in the dashboards. We also have many more different overviews available. It\u2019s much easier to open up a specialized report for the matrix organization, or open another report just to show data per legal entity, or whatever we want. And of course, we can easily combine data from finance with other KPIs. We are still in an early phase of implementing Board, but we already have all the HR data of FTE and headcount available in Board as well, so now you can compare your personal expenses with the HR data,\u201d says Gerben.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Board also delivers a greater level of insight into the underlying numbers, replacing error-prone manual processes with a more automated approach:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u00a0\u201cWe can now easily, within a report, drill down and see very quickly from which cost center and which account the variance is coming from. Analysis is now much quicker than before, where the reporting unit would have had to look through 160 Excel sheets. Because everything is ready in Board, you have less risk of errors. You don\u2019t have the manual work or the copy paste work where you can miss out, or where formulas can break. This is really helpful for ensuring we have secure data available.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><strong><em>Faster, more flexible forecasting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Board has also transformed RTL\u2019s manual forecasting processes into a much more efficient activity, in which data is readily available straight after it has been entered, making the impact on the bottom line immediately visible to everyone. Board\u2019s split and splat functionality also makes it much easier to distribute data over multiple months, cost centers, or RTL accounts. Forecasts are produced monthly, enabling them to be compared with the actuals per month and helping to enhance decision-making throughout the year. Gerben elaborates:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u00a0\u201cWe also take the actuals from previous months into account, and that helps a lot because previously we only had the variance on the budget. For a contract which changes value, it\u2019s quite easy to give the new amount, but if we have some impacts from prior years or other one-offs, they\u2019re\u00a0\nnow\u00a0taken into account too. We are now using, for the future months, the budget figures or the previous forecast figures, so even if you don\u2019t make any changes, there are still numbers in there.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>In addition to comparing actuals versus budget, RTL is now also able to report the reforecast on a monthly basis with ease, as Board enables variance calculations to be produced with one click:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u00a0\u201cIt makes much more sense to do this throughout the year because it\u2019s the updated version of your goal. With one button in Board, we can just change the budget column into a forecast and the variances will be calculated automatically,\u201d says Gerben.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><strong><em>Greater control, security, and accuracy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The entire forecasting process is controlled via a workflow in Board, making it easy to see the current status and know when each department or controller has completed their input. Access to data is also managed via user profiles, <strong>increasing overall security and the accuracy of the data<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cWe now have limited access within the departments, and controllers only have authorization to edit the departments they are responsible for. This saves someone else accidentally changing your figures or overriding some numbers you put in earlier. And of course we have less risk of errors because there\u2019s no copy and paste, or person in between transferring data,\u201d continues Gerben.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Efficiency in action: Responding to COVID-19<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p>The benefits of Board\u2019s flexibility became even more evident during the Coronavirus pandemic. RTL experienced a temporary reduction in advertising revenue and its content producers were unable to continue filming due to the lockdown. Management teams and board members needed fast, up-to-date insight of the impact of the evolving situation on the company\u2019s finances, which the team was able to provide using Board. Gerben shares the story:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u00a0\u201cThey often asked us how the situation was developing, so we decided to implement a weekly forecast. With our old process it took multiple days just to consolidate the forecast so it would be hard to do on a weekly basis. With Board, we were able to have a weekly forecast where we started on Monday and by the end of the week everyone had entered their new numbers, and by the next Monday morning we could discuss the new figures which were available. They were also immediately available in a report which could be distributed too. If the old processes had still existed, I don\u2019t think we would have been able to do so, but with Board we were able to quickly consolidate the data, have the corporate analysis ready in time, and we used a weekly forecast version to have a good view of how things were developing.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Future: Bringing in more external data to enhance driver-based forecasts<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Gerben finishes by summarizing the end result of the Board project and discussing future plans:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u201cOverall, we have changed our way of working in the Controlling and Reporting departments from Excel to a tool, an automation, where we are able to work even better than before. The next steps will be to optimize some processes. From a reporting point of view we have some more wishes coming in, so we will extend the type of reports we have. The whole roadmap will be adjusted accordingly. We will introduce more non-financial data, not only the KPIs of HR, but we can also work with video subscribers and the subscription prices from our video platform. So maybe we can continue with more driver-based forecasting from there.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"d-none d-lg-block\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<aside class=\"company-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"company-info__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.board.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/logo_trimmed_rtl-5-768x768.png\" alt=\"RTL Netherlands Logo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"company-info__section\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Company stats<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"list-unstyled company-info__list list-with-ticks\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb-0\"><strong>Industry: <\/strong>Publishing &amp; Media<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb-0\"><strong>Department: <\/strong>Finance<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb-0\"><strong>Revenue: <\/strong>\u20ac476 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