Christopher Penn will tell you that if your company isn’t setting goals and goal values in Google Analytics then you are doing it wrong. Follow this link to a good basic overview of how it works. If nothing else, use this article as an excuse to find out whether your team is on top of this. They might be already doing this, but the results may not be bubbling up as far in the organization as they should.
Goals and results against goals plus the variances on a weekly, monthly, and YTD basis sound like the making of a good dashboard to us.
