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# What you can ask

Morevy responds to plain language. There is no query syntax to learn. This page sets out the surface area so you are not left inferring it from examples.

## Closing a period

| Ask                                   | Returns                                                                                     |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| *Close February*                      | The full close for that period: opening balance, movement, closing balance, reconciliation. |
| *Close the most recent month you can* | Morevy selects the latest period your file supports.                                        |
| *Close Q1*                            | Each month in the quarter, closed and reported.                                             |

## Understanding the movement

| Ask                                       | Returns                                                                          |
| ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| *Why did revenue move?*                   | A written explanation of the largest contributors, with the figures behind them. |
| *Break that down by location*             | The same movement, once per value of any column in your file.                    |
| *Who is in Lost, and what did each cost?* | The individual accounts within a movement component.                             |
| *What do they have in common?*            | Shared characteristics across a group: tenure, plan, segment.                    |

## Comparing periods

| Ask                                               | Returns                                                 |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| *How does February compare to January?*           | Both periods side by side, with the differences stated. |
| *How does this compare to the last three months?* | The period against a trailing average.                  |
| *Show me the last six months*                     | A series, on a consistent basis.                        |

## Ratios

| Ask                                 | Returns                                         |
| ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| *What is my net revenue retention?* | The ratio, with the basis it was computed on.   |
| *What is my revenue churn rate?*    | Revenue lost as a share of the opening balance. |

Retention ratios require the recurring revenue basis. See Retention and churn.

## About your data

| Ask                                  | Returns                                                     |
| ------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| *What periods does my file cover?*   | The full date range found, and the latest closeable period. |
| *Which columns can I break down by?* | The columns available as a segment lens.                    |
| *What did I choose for this file?*   | The column mapping, classification and basis in force.      |

## What Morevy will not answer

Morevy reports on the data you supplied. It does not:

* **Forecast.** It reports what happened, not what will.
* **Advise.** It will tell you that a segment lost revenue. It will not tell you to change your pricing.
* **Answer from outside your file.** It has no benchmarks, no industry averages, and no information about businesses other than yours.
* **Produce a figure it cannot compute.** Where no verified result exists, it says so rather than estimating.

{% hint style="info" %}
Every answer is a computation against your file, not a summary of what is already on screen. Asking the same question twice after changing an input produces a new result and a statement of what moved.
{% endhint %}


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