Forensics & Investigation Dashboard in Power BI

The Forensics and Investigation Dashboard in Power BI ships as a single .pbix file holding 5 report pages, 25 KPI cards, 12 charts and 3 scorecard tables, built over a sample book of 500 cases covering January to December 2025. Every page carries the same five-slicer panel — Date Range, Region, Case Type, Investigation Unit and one page-specific filter — so a single click re-cuts all 15 visuals at once.

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⚠️ Read this before you buy. This is a reporting template loaded with fictional sample data, not evidence-management software. It has no chain-of-custody controls, no audit trail, no access permissions, and it makes no claim of legal or evidentiary admissibility. It does not integrate with any case-management system — you point it at your own extract. Do not load real case files, witness identities or personal data into it.

🔑 Key Features of the Forensics and Investigation Dashboard in Power BI

🎯 25 KPI cards, five per page, each with its own sparkline and month-on-month arrow. The Overview page alone reports Total Cases 500, Estimated Loss $64.56M, Recovered $16.96M, Recovery Rate 26.3% and Closure Rate 37.8%, every figure compared against the prior month.

🔍 Five slicers on every page, wired to all visuals on that page. Date Range, Region, Case Type and Investigation Unit repeat throughout; the fifth slot changes by page to Priority, Status, Evidence Type or Lead Investigator, so each page filters on the dimension it analyses.

📊 Twelve charts and three scorecard tables named by metric, not by chart type. Total Estimated Loss and Recovery Rate % by Month, Total Cases by Status, Total Cases by Priority, Total Estimated Loss by Region and Total Cases by Evidence Type all read as plain statements of what they measure.

💰 Loss and recovery are tracked as a pair, never in isolation. The sample book carries $64.56M of estimated loss against $16.96M recovered — a 26.3% recovery rate and $47.60M still unrecovered — and the same pairing repeats by month, quarter, case type, unit, investigator and region.

🧭 Effort metrics sit beside outcome metrics. Hours Per Case 53.6, Evidence Per Case 12.0, Interviews Per Case 4.4 and Recovered Per Hour $633 let you ask whether more investigation hours actually buy more recovery, which a case-count report cannot answer.

🛠️ Fully editable model. The download carries the .pbix plus the Data.xlsx source workbook, so you can swap the sample rows for your own extract, rename dimensions, restyle visuals or add pages in Power BI Desktop.

📦 What’s Inside the Forensics & Investigation Dashboard

Page 1: Overview

The landing page reports Total Cases, Estimated Loss, Recovered, Recovery Rate and Closure Rate as KPI cards, then breaks the book open with Total Estimated Loss and Recovery Rate % by Month, Total Estimated Loss by Case Type (Financial Fraud $26.4M down to Compliance Breach $2.3M) and Total Cases by Status, where Closed holds 189 cases (37.8%) against 151 under investigation.

Page 2: Case Trends

A time-series page tracking Active Cases 311, Investigation Hours 26.8K, Avg. Risk Score 49.3, Critical Case Rate 9.8% and Unrecovered Loss $47.60M. Charts are Total Cases and Avg. Risk Score by Month, Total Recovered Amount by Month, and Total Estimated Loss and Total Recovered Amount by Quarter, which shows recovery sliding from $5.4M in Q1 to $3.6M in Q4.

Page 3: Case Portfolio

The case-type view, with Loss Per Case $129.1K, Confirmed Fraud Rate 23.3%, Escalation Rate 6.8%, Critical Cases 49 and High Risk Rate 48.4%. It carries Total Estimated Loss and Total Recovered Amount by Case Type, Total Cases by Priority (Medium 200, High 151, Low 100, Critical 49) and a Case Type Scorecard listing all seven case types with their case count, estimated loss and recovery rate.

Page 4: Investigation Units

A workload and quality page reporting Hours Per Case, Evidence Per Case, Interviews Per Case, Recovered Per Hour and a 4.31 Quality Rating shown as stars. Total Investigation Hours and Recovery Rate % by Investigation Unit compares Financial Investigation, Corporate Intelligence, Field Investigation, Compliance Review and Digital Forensics; Total Cases by Evidence Type ranks Financial Documents, Surveillance Media, Communication Logs, Physical Evidence, Witness Statements and Digital Records.

Page 5: Investigators & Regions

The people-and-place page, reporting Closed Cases 189, Recovery Per Case $33.9K, Confirmed Fraud 44, Recovery Rate 26.3% and Quality Rating 4.31. Total Recovered Amount and Recovery Rate % by Lead Investigator ranks ten named investigators, Total Estimated Loss by Region splits East, North, West, Central and South, and the Region Scorecard adds closure rate and recovered amount per region.

📊 This Template vs. Tableau / Qlik vs. Paid Case-Management SaaS — Where This Fits

For an investigation team that already has its case records somewhere and only needs the reporting layer — loss, recovery, workload, closure — this forensics dashboard template sits in the sweet spot. If you need intake, evidence custody and permissions, buy the SaaS instead.

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

✅ This template is built for:

• Internal audit, risk and corporate-investigation leads who already export case records and want a reporting layer over them
• Insurance special investigation units reporting on claim-fraud volume, loss and recovery
• Analysts who need a Power BI dashboard for case management reporting they can restyle and extend themselves
• Consultants and trainers who want a realistic investigation case analytics dashboard to demonstrate DAX, slicers and multi-page report design

❌ This template is NOT for:

• Teams that need an actual case-management system — intake forms, evidence storage, chain of custody, permissions and an audit trail are all absent here
• Anyone who needs output to stand up in court or in a regulatory filing; nothing in this file is designed or certified for evidentiary use
• Storing real case detail or personal data — the file has no access control, so keep identifiable records out of it
• Live operational alerting; this refreshes when you refresh it, it is not a monitoring system
• Anyone without Power BI Desktop on Windows, or who wants to edit in a browser

⚙️ How to Use It

1. Download the ZIP and unzip it. You get the .pbix report and the Data.xlsx source workbook.
2. Install Power BI Desktop if you do not already have it — it is free from Microsoft.
3. Open the .pbix and click through all five pages with the sample data still loaded, so you can see what each visual does.
4. Open Data.xlsx and replace the sample rows with your own case extract, keeping the column names exactly as they are.
5. Back in Power BI Desktop, use Transform data to repoint the source to your file, then Refresh.
6. Rename dimensions to your own vocabulary — case types, units, regions — and the slicers and scorecards follow automatically.
7. Publish to your own workspace or share the .pbix file directly. Strip identifiable detail before you share it.

💼 Real-World Use Cases

Ravi heads internal audit at a mid-size manufacturer. He pulls a monthly extract of closed and open investigations, drops it into Data.xlsx and takes the Case Portfolio page to his audit committee. The Case Type Scorecard answers the only question they ever ask — where the loss is concentrated — without him rebuilding a deck each month.

Meera runs a five-person special investigation unit at an insurer. She uses the Investigation Units page to compare hours per case and recovered-per-hour across her analysts, and uses Total Cases by Evidence Type to argue for a budget line for surveillance media. Her team’s records stay in the claims system; only aggregates come into the dashboard.

Daniel teaches a BI course. He hands students this fraud investigation dashboard template as a worked example of a five-page report with a repeated slicer panel, and has them rebuild the Recovery Rate % measure from scratch.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Forensics and Investigation Dashboard in Power BI actually measure?

It measures case volume, estimated loss, recovered amount, recovery rate, closure rate, risk score, investigation hours, evidence and interview counts, and quality rating — 25 KPI cards in total — sliced by case type, status, priority, evidence type, investigation unit, lead investigator, region and month.

Is this a case-management system?

No. It is a reporting template only. There is no case intake, no evidence storage, no chain-of-custody tracking, no user permissions and no audit trail, and it does not connect to any case-management platform. It reads a data extract you supply and visualises it.

Can I use the output as evidence or in a regulatory filing?

No. Nothing in this file is designed, tested or certified for evidentiary or legal admissibility. Treat it as internal management reporting. Anything going into a filing or a court process should come from your system of record, through your own controls.

Is the data in it real?

No. All 500 cases, the ten investigator names and every figure shipped with the file are fictional sample data, generated so the visuals have something realistic to render. Replace them with your own extract before you show anything to a stakeholder.

How long does setup take?

Under 15 minutes if your extract already has one row per case. Unzip, open the .pbix, swap the rows in Data.xlsx for your own, repoint the source and refresh. Renaming dimensions to your vocabulary adds a few minutes more.

How does this compare to paid case-management software?

Paid platforms such as Case IQ or Resolver handle intake, evidence and permissions, which this template does not. What you get here for a single payment is the analytics layer — five pages, 25 KPIs and 15 visuals — that you would otherwise build yourself or pay a per-seat subscription to see.

Do I need a Power BI licence?

Not to use it. Power BI Desktop is free and opens the .pbix directly. You only need a Pro or Premium licence if you want to publish the report to the Power BI service and share it with colleagues there.

👤 About the Author

Built by PK — Microsoft Certified Professional with 15+ years of Excel, Google Sheets and Power BI experience, and founder of NextGenTemplates, reaching 300K+ subscribers across YouTube (@PKAnExcelExpert and @NextGenTemplates). Every template is hand-built and tested before release. For the underlying measure syntax, Microsoft’s DAX reference is the authoritative source, and the ACFE’s Report to the Nations is a good benchmark for the loss and detection figures this kind of reporting surfaces.

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Also available as: an Excel edition, Forensics & Investigation Dashboard in Excel, is being prepared and will appear at this link. It is an independent build on the same subject, not a copy of this one — page count, KPI names and chart sets differ between the two editions, so check both before choosing.

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📅 Last updated: September 2026

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