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Read profit, cash and receivables every month from entries your team already makes.

Finance and accounting reporting turns the entries your team already makes into the figures an owner reads: profit for the month, cash in hand, receivables by age and spend by head. Nothing is rebuilt in a fresh sheet, because the numbers come from the same invoices, receipts and expense entries. Last month can be read as soon as it is closed.

What it is

Sales sit in the billing software and spending sits in a diary, and an accountant brings the two together once a year. Between those dates the owner has a bank balance to go by. A bank balance is not a profit.

Reports are built from what has already been entered, by month, branch or project. Every figure opens into the bills behind it. A number that looks wrong can be traced on the same screen, without asking three people.

What it replaces

What your team uses today.

The module takes over these, one at a time, so nothing has to stop while it is set up.

  • The monthly sheet rebuilt after close
  • Figures asked from accounts by message
  • Branch sheets kept in different layouts
Where it goes wrong today

The problems this is meant to ease.

Reports rebuilt every month

Someone copies figures into a sheet after close. The sheet differs a little each time.

Profit known late

The owner asks how the month went and waits for accounts. The answer arrives late. By then the next month is well under way.

Receivables without ages

A total of money owed hides which bills are old. Collection goes to whoever calls loudest.

Totals with no trail

A figure on a report cannot be traced to its bills. The auditor asks and a search begins.

Branches compared by guess

Each branch keeps a sheet in its own layout. The owner cannot lay them side by side.

Inside the module

What finance and accounting reporting does.

Profit for the period

Income and expenditure for a month or quarter, with the previous period beside it for comparison.

Receivables by age

What customers owe, split by how long it has been owed, with the largest and oldest at the top.

Cash and bank position

Money in hand and in each account, with payments due this week set against collections expected.

Spend by head and site

Where the money went, grouped your way. A head that has doubled since April is visible in April.

Branch and project views

The same report for one outlet, one project or the whole business, with no sheets merged by hand.

Sent on a date

The two or three figures you care about arrive by email or WhatsApp on the date you choose.

Export for the auditor

The working behind any figure exports as Excel or PDF, which is the first thing your accountant will ask for.

Where it gets used

What this looks like in a working week.

Illustrative scenarios, written to show the shape of the work. They are not accounts of client systems.

Month closes

The accountant closes the month and notes why it moved. Profit, cash and receivables open that same morning.

Collection call list

The accounts assistant opens receivables by age and starts from the oldest bills. Each line opens the invoice behind it.

Branch comparison

The branch manager sees spend by head for the branch. Head office puts branches side by side. Differences are plain.

Audit pack

The auditor asks for a position on a past date. The report is run for that date. It exports with the filters recorded.

Who touches it

The people who open this every day.

Owner

Reads three or four numbers each month and asks about the one that moved.

Accounts assistant

Runs the month, fixes what the report shows to be missing, and closes it.

Branch manager

Sees only their own branch, and answers for it.

How it is set up

From first conversation to daily use.

  1. List the reports you read

    Show the reports the owner and accountant read today. A note follows. It maps each report to the entries behind it.

  2. Agree heads and groupings

    Confirm account heads, branches and projects. Profit and receivables built from sample entries come back for trial.

  3. Compare with a closed month

    Provide figures for a month already closed. A trial run sits beside them with the differences explained.

  4. Train the readers

    Owner, accounts and branch managers see the reports meant for them. Each group gets a note. It explains how to read its view.

  5. Scheduled use

    Reports go out on dates you choose. After the first close, the team reviews what was missing.

Measuring it

How you would know it is working.

Record where you stand before it goes live, so the change is measured against your own figures.

  • Reports sent on the date agreed
  • Receivables by age band, by customer
  • Spend by head compared with the same month last year
  • Totals that open to the bills behind them
  • Month closes with notes recorded
How it fits

It is one part of a system, not an island.

A module earns its place by what it passes to the next one. These are the connections we set up most often.

  • Invoice management
  • Expense tracking
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Dashboards and KPIs
  • Accounting software
Common questions

Questions owners ask about finance and accounting reporting.

Is this an accounting package?

No. The ledgers remain in your accounting software or with your accountant, and the statutory statements come from there. This reports on what your operations system records, which is usually fresher and more detailed.

Are the year-end accounts from our accountant not enough?

For the tax return it is. For running the business it arrives too late to act on. A monthly figure you mostly trust is worth more than an audited one you see months later.

Will the figures match our accounting software exactly?

Closely, though not identically, and we say so before the work starts. Provisions, depreciation and year-end entries are made in the books and not here. The operational figures reconcile line by line.

Can the figures be read on a phone?

Yes. It opens in a browser, so the month’s figures can be read from a car park as easily as from your desk. Our grocery system shows the owner the day’s profit beside the day’s sales in the same way.

What drives the price of a reporting module?

The branches, projects and account heads in the reports, and the systems feeding them. Every extra source adds work. Views are priced individually after we have read your scope, so a view you do not need comes out.

How long until the owner reads a real monthly report?

It depends on how clean the entries underneath are. Profit, cash position and receivables by age come first. Branch views and exports come later. Dates go in the proposal.

Talk to us

Tell us how you handle finance and accounting reporting today.

A spreadsheet, a register or another system: say which, and we will tell you plainly what is worth changing.

What happens after you share your requirements

  1. A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
  2. Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
  3. If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
  4. No call is booked and nothing is paid until you have read the note. Your details stay with us.

Start with your requirements

Seven short steps that tell us what you need. A senior engineer reads them before anyone gets in touch.

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