Business Financial Dataset

August 2024 Finance Difficulty 1/5 XLSX 32.3 KB 580 rows × 9 cols 36 downloads
  • finance
  • business
  • expenses
  • revenue
  • timeseries

580 monthly business-financial records with line of business, revenue-or-expense flag, amount, and expense subgroup fields. Useful for margin analysis, expense-trend dashboards, and business-line comparisons.

Challenge brief

Business Financial Dataset - Challenge Brief

Challenge period: August 2024 Dataset: Reconstructed brief based on the shipped data file for the August 2024 DataDNA challenge.

About the data

The primary data table for this challenge carries the following columns:

  • Year
  • Month - name
  • Month -sequence
  • Date
  • Business Line
  • Amount, $
  • Expense subgroup
  • Revenue / Expense Group
  • Revenue or expense

Suggested analytical angles

  • Which business lines generate the strongest margin?
  • How do expense subgroups trend across months and years?
  • Which revenue-to-expense ratios have moved most over the series?
  • How do seasonal patterns differ across lines of business?

What great submissions did

This brief was reconstructed from the dataset contents in 2026 as part of the Playground audit. The original August 2024 challenge brief was not preserved as a separate file in the source archive, so the analytical angles above are inferred from the column list. See the corresponding /challenges/ entry on datadna.onyxdata.co.uk for examples of how participants approached the data.

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