Case Study

A Partner Dashboard for a Chartered Accountancy Firm

Practice Pulse — one screen a firm partner checks every morning: compliance deadlines, billing, receivables ageing, and staff load. Live and in use. See it yourself at /demo-ca-practice-dashboard.html.

Built for

A mid-sized chartered accountancy practice (name withheld at the client's request)

Problem

Deadlines, billing and staff load lived in separate tools no partner checked daily

Stack

HTML/CSS/JS, Chart.js

Status

Live and in use

The Challenge

Indian statutory compliance runs on a relentless calendar — GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, advance tax instalments, tax audit reports, ROC filings, TDS returns — each with its own due date and its own list of clients still pending. At a firm running dozens of these in parallel, that information lived scattered across accounting software, a practice register, and partners' own memory. Nothing forced a single, honest morning view of what was overdue, what was due soon, and who on the team was already over capacity.

The Solution

Practice Pulse — a single-page dashboard a partner opens once each morning. A compliance deadline tracker sorts every upcoming filing by urgency, with a client count against each one. Billing and collections KPIs sit alongside outstanding receivables, broken into an ageing chart so nothing chases itself into "over 90 days" unnoticed. A staff utilisation view flags team members at or near capacity before it becomes a missed deadline, not after. In the delivered build this data syncs live from the firm's own accounting software and practice register; the public demo below stands in sample data for that live feed so it can be shown without exposing real client data.

What's on it

Six views, one screen.

1

Deadline tracker

Every filing, sorted by urgency

2

Billing & collections

Month-to-date, against last month

3

Receivables ageing

0–30 to 90+ days, color-coded

4

Engagements by service line

Bookkeeping, GST, audit, ROC, tax

5

Staff utilisation

Flags near- and at-capacity staff

6

Top clients

By monthly recurring fee

See the Live Demo →

Why it's built this way

A partner scans this once, doesn't read it — so it leans on information design over prose: color and iconography carry urgency (never color alone), tables stay sortable by what matters, and every chart ships with a "view as table" fallback and a text description for accessibility. Numbers use Indian lakh formatting and the Indian financial year, because that's the vocabulary the firm actually works in, not a generic template retrofitted to it.

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