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Zentra Retail's finance director wants a single-screen display for regional managers showing a handful of key performance indicators, updated regularly, with red/amber/green flags when results deviate from target. Which description best fits this tool?

A performance dashboard fits best. It presents a small number of key indicators on one screen, refreshed regularly, with traffic-light flags for deviations from target. The other options are statutory reporting, a budgeting adjustment, or a storage design, none of which is a visual monitoring display.

  1. AA performance dashboardCorrect
  2. BA statutory annual report
  3. CA flexed budget statement
  4. DA data warehouse schema

Explanation

A dashboard consolidates a limited set of key indicators on one screen, often with exception flags such as RAG status. An annual report is periodic and statutory, a flexed budget adjusts for activity, and a data warehouse schema describes storage structure rather than presentation.

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