Forensics & Investigation Dashboard in Excel

The Forensics and Investigation Dashboard in Excel reports on 500 sample case records across 5 interactive pages, 20 linked charts, 5 KPI cards and 4 slicers (Month, Case Type, Investigation Unit, Region). The Data sheet carries 26 columns per case, and every visual is pivot-driven, so replacing the sample rows with your own case log refreshes the whole workbook.

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🔑 Key Features of the Forensics and Investigation Dashboard in Excel

📊 Five KPI cards on one screen. The Overview page reports Total Estimated Loss ($64.6M in the sample data), Total Recovered Amount ($17.0M), Total Cases (500), Total Investigation Hours (26.8K) and an Avg. Quality Rating of 4.3 shown as a five-star visual. Each card is a pivot value, not a typed number.

🎛️ Four slicers wired to every page. Month, Case Type, Investigation Unit and Region sit in a fixed right-hand panel on all five pages. Clicking Cybercrime or the West region filters all 20 charts and all five KPI cards at once, with no formula editing.

🧭 A left sidebar that behaves like an app. Overview, Case Trends, Risk & Priority, Evidence Review and Team Performance are one click apart, so an investigation manager can move from a loss headline to an individual investigator’s closure rate in seconds.

💰 Loss versus recovery on every dimension. Estimated Loss and Recovered Amount are compared by Case Type, Month, Priority and Investigation Unit, and a Recovered Loss % measure (26.3% in the sample) is broken out by Lead Investigator and by Case Type.

🔎 An investigation case dashboard built on plain Excel. There are no macros in the file, no add-ins and no external connections — pivot tables, pivot charts and slicers only. The workbook opens as a normal .xlsx, so it survives corporate macro policies that block .xlsm files outright.

📦 What’s Inside the Template

Page 1: Overview

Reports the five KPI cards — Total Estimated Loss, Total Recovered Amount, Total Cases, Total Investigation Hours and Avg. Quality Rating — plus a Recovered Loss % gauge at 26.3%. Charts are Total Estimated Loss vs Total Recovered Amount by Case Type, Cases vs Closed Cases by Region and Recovered Loss % by Lead Investigator.

Page 2: Case Trends

Shows how caseload and money move through the year. Charts are Estimated Loss vs Recovered Amount by Month, Total Cases vs Closed Cases by Quarter (135, 133, 118 and 114 cases across Q1 to Q4), Cases vs Escalated Cases by Status and Total Cases vs Total Recovered Amount by Resolution, where Ongoing holds 293 of the 500 sample cases.

Page 3: Risk & Priority

Separates the heavy cases from the routine ones. Charts are Estimated Loss vs Recovered Amount by Priority, Total Cases vs High Risk Cases by Risk Band (Medium 203, High 183, Critical 59, Low 55), High Risk Cases vs Cases by Region and Recovered Loss % by Case Type, which runs from 29.4% on Insurance Claim down to 20.6% on Cybercrime.

Page 4: Evidence Review

Ties evidence volume to effort. Charts are Evidence Items vs Cases by Evidence Type, Total Investigation Hours vs Evidence Items by Case Type, Evidence Items vs Cases by Resolution and Total Investigation Hours vs Total Cases by Priority, which shows 10.6K hours on High priority against 2.5K on Low.

Page 5: Team Performance

Compares the ten named sample investigators and the five investigation units. Charts are Cases vs Closed Cases by Lead Investigator, Estimated Loss vs Recovered Amount by Investigation Unit, Avg. Quality Rating by Lead Investigator as a star scale, and Total Investigation Hours vs Total Cases by Investigation Unit.

Data sheet

Holds the 500 sample case rows in 26 columns: Case ID, Incident Date, Case Type, Investigation Unit, Region, Lead Investigator, Evidence Type, Priority, Status, Resolution, Estimated Loss, Recovered Amount, Investigation Hours, Persons Interviewed, Evidence Items, Risk Score, Quality Rating, Month, Year, Quarter, Risk Band and five helper count columns. This is the only sheet you edit.

Support sheet

A short in-workbook reference for refreshing the pivot cache and re-pointing the ranges after you paste a larger case log. The download also includes the Excel Dashboard – User Manual PDF.

📊 Forensics and Investigation Dashboard in Excel vs a Google Sheets Build vs Paid Case-Analytics SaaS

For an investigation team that needs management reporting on a case log without a six-week SaaS onboarding, this template sits in the sweet spot — and it is honest about the one thing it is not: an evidence system.

👥 Who This Template Is For — and Who It’s Not For

✅ Built for:

• Internal audit, fraud risk and corporate investigation teams of 3-50 people who already keep a case log in a spreadsheet
• Forensic accounting and consulting practices reporting recovery rates to a partner or a client
• Compliance managers who need a monthly caseload and escalation pack and want a forensic case management dashboard they can email as a file
• Analysts who want to track investigation cases in Excel without buying a licence per head

❌ Not for:

• Teams needing an evidence-management system — there is no chain-of-custody log, no exhibit register and no file custody tracking in this workbook
• Anyone needing court-ready or legally admissible output; the charts are internal management reporting, not evidence or expert-witness exhibits
• Anyone who needs it to read a case-management platform automatically — there is no API, no connector and no live integration, and case data is pasted into the Data sheet by hand
• Storing real case records, suspect, victim or witness personal data, or any regulated personal information — the file ships with fictional sample data and has no access control, encryption or audit logging
• Teams that work solely in Excel for the web or need identical slicer behaviour on Mac

⚙️ How to Use It

Getting the Forensics and Investigation Dashboard in Excel onto your own case log is a six-step job, and none of the steps involve writing a formula.

1. Open the .xlsx in Excel 2016 or later on Windows desktop. No macros to enable and no add-ins to install.
2. Open the Data sheet and read the 26 column headers, then delete the 500 sample rows.
3. Paste your own case log into the same column order. Keep the Case Type, Region, Priority, Status and Resolution values consistent.
4. Fill the Month, Year, Quarter and Risk Band helper columns down to the last row of your data.
5. Press Ctrl+Alt+F5 to refresh all pivots, then check the Overview KPI cards against your own totals.
6. Use the four slicers to filter and the sidebar buttons to move between the five pages.

💼 Real-World Use Cases

Ravi leads a four-person internal investigations unit at a manufacturer. He pastes the quarter’s case log into the Data sheet on the first Monday of the month, filters the Region slicer to his two plants, and takes the Case Trends page straight into the audit committee pack instead of rebuilding four charts by hand.

Anita runs a small forensic accounting practice. She uses the Recovered Loss % by Case Type chart to show clients where recovery actually lands, and the Team Performance page to see which of her investigators is carrying the most open hours before she takes on a new engagement.

Devan is a compliance manager who needed an excel dashboard for fraud investigations after his team’s licence renewal quote tripled. He keeps the case log he already had, points this workbook at it, and reports escalation counts monthly at a one-time cost.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What does this dashboard actually track?

It reports estimated loss, recovered amount, recovered loss percentage, case counts, closure and escalation counts, investigation hours, evidence items, persons interviewed, risk score and quality rating — sliced by case type, investigation unit, region, lead investigator, priority, status, resolution and month.

Does it require macros or an add-in?

No. The file is a plain .xlsx built on pivot tables, pivot charts and slicers. There is no VBA, no Power Query connection and no add-in, so it opens in environments where macro-enabled workbooks are blocked by policy.

Is this evidence-management or case-management software?

No. The Forensics and Investigation Dashboard in Excel is a reporting layer over a case log you maintain yourself. It has no chain-of-custody tracking, no evidence vault, no access control and no integration with a case-management system, and its output is not intended to be legally admissible.

Can I put real case data in it?

We do not recommend it. The workbook has no encryption, user permissions or audit trail, so it is unsuitable for real case records or personal data about suspects, victims or witnesses. Use anonymised or aggregated figures and follow your own organisation’s data policy.

How long does setup take?

Under 15 minutes if your case log already has the same fields. Delete the 500 sample rows, paste yours in the same column order, fill the helper columns, and refresh the pivot cache once.

How many cases can it handle?

The sample carries 500 rows. Pivot tables handle tens of thousands comfortably; past roughly 100,000 rows you will want to extend the pivot source ranges and expect slower refreshes on older hardware.

Is there a Power BI version?

A separate Power BI edition, Forensics & Investigation Dashboard in Power BI, is being prepared and is not live yet. It is its own build with its own page layout rather than a copy of this workbook.

👤 About the Author

Built by PK — Microsoft Certified Professional with 15+ years of Excel, Google Sheets and Power BI experience. Founder of NextGenTemplates, reaching 300K+ subscribers across YouTube channels (@PKAnExcelExpert, @NextGenTemplates). Every template is hand-built and tested before release.

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Working out how slicers drive several pivot charts at once? Microsoft’s own guide to using slicers to filter data covers the connection settings this workbook uses, and the ACFE’s Report to the Nations is a solid external benchmark for the loss and recovery ratios you will be reading here.

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📅 Last updated: September 2026

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