Management accounting
Cost centres, projects and budget versus actual on the same ledger.
Dimensions — cost centres, departments, branches, projects, profit centres — are stamped on journal and document lines as they post. Budgets sit against account, period and dimension, so variance is a query, not a rebuild.
- Category
- Finance
- Status
- Available
- Depends on
- 2
- Connectors
- 3
What it does
Management accounting, in practice
The parts that matter day to day, not a feature matrix.
Budget Actual
Illustrative product screen — sample data, not a measured result.
Works with
Management accounting needs the ledger underneath it
Modules write through one engine, so what this one needs is a dependency rather than an integration project.
Required
Accounting
A general ledger that drills back to the document behind every number.
AvailableRequired
Reporting
Statements that tie back, every time, without a reconciliation ritual.
Available
Often switched on together
- AvailableExplore
Accounting
A general ledger that drills back to the document behind every number.
- AvailableExplore
Reporting
Statements that tie back, every time, without a reconciliation ritual.
- In developmentExplore
CFO insights
The recurring read of the numbers, written for a management meeting.
- In developmentExplore
Projects
Cost, revenue and progress on the same record.
Industries
Where this does the most work
Problems it removes
What people come to us with
Connects to
Connect what you already use
Connector status is stated honestly. Only file import and export are live today; the rest are planned or built on request.
The layer on top
What G1 notices in this data
Analysis reads the same records the ledger writes, under the same permissions.
Scenarios
Where this module changes the day
Illustrative situations, not clients. There are no measured results here because there is nothing to measure yet.
- Illustrative scenarioExplore
A four-entity manufacturing group
Closing a four-company group in days, not weeks
Each company keeps its own books in its own way. Consolidation is a spreadsheet built by one person over eleven years: intercompany balances are agreed by email, translation is manual, and the group pack arrives around the third week of the following month. When a number is questioned, answering takes a day.
- Illustrative scenarioExplore
A professional services firm
Knowing project margin while the project is still open
Time sits in one system, expenses in another, subcontractor invoices in the accounts, and the fee schedule in the contract. Project margin is calculated quarterly by hand. Work in progress is an estimate. Partners find out that an engagement went wrong when it is too late to renegotiate.
- Illustrative scenarioExplore
A multi-site hospitality operator
Daily numbers for a business that reports monthly
Eleven venues, one small central finance team. Takings, card settlement and supplier invoices all arrive at different times and in different formats. Labour and food cost as a percentage of revenue are known monthly, which is well after the week in which they could have been changed. Site managers work from their own spreadsheets.
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A regional building contractor
Knowing what a job will cost before it is finished
Committed cost lives in a folder of subcontractor orders. Posted cost lives in the accounts. Variations are agreed on site and priced weeks later, and retention is tracked on a spreadsheet that only the commercial manager maintains. Cost to complete is a quantity surveyor's judgement, revisited monthly, and by the time a job is known to be losing money the remaining scope is already committed.
Finance
Management accounting is running today. See it on your own numbers.
We will walk through it with your chart of accounts and your documents, not a demo company.