Poor visibility
“I can't see what's happening in my business.”
Visibility is not a dashboard problem. It is a data problem: if the numbers are assembled monthly by hand, they can only be seen monthly. Post the detail as it happens and the view is simply there.
What it looks like day to day
- The management accounts arrive three weeks after month end
- Nobody knows the cash position without asking someone
- Margin by product, site or project is guesswork
- Bad news surfaces late, and usually by accident
What changes
Same capabilities. One system instead of several.
The modules below are the ones that answer this problem. On the left of the switch they are where most businesses keep them today; on the right they are on one engine, reading and writing the same records.
Drifting apart
The same capabilities, spread across tools that were each the right answer to a smaller problem.
How G1 approaches it
- Capture the dimension — site, project, product — at the point of posting
- Reconcile continuously rather than at period end
- Put the few numbers that matter where people already look
- Make every figure drill back to the document behind it
Modules
What you would actually switch on.
Activated when they earn their place, not sold as a suite. The status on each one is the real one.
- AvailableExplore
Dashboards
The few numbers you check first, in one place.
- AvailableExplore
Analytics
Analysis on the live ledger, not a copy of last month's export.
- AvailableExplore
Management accounting
Cost centres, projects and budget versus actual on the same ledger.
- AvailableExplore
Cash flow
Bank feeds in, reconciliation done, cash position you can trust.
- In developmentExplore
KPIs
Measures defined once, so nobody argues about the denominator.
Where it shows up
Industries where this is common.
Not a claim about who we work with — a note on where this situation tends to appear.
The human layer
Technology when you need it. Expertise when you need it.
Some of this is configuration. Some of it is a decision someone has to sit down and make with you. These are the people-shaped parts of solving this particular problem.
Data analysis
Analysis on your own data, for the questions that matter to your business. Margin, cost drivers, customer profitability, working capital — explained, not just charted.
- Definitions agreed before the numbers are argued about
- Drivers identified, not just variances reported
- Analysis you can repeat next quarter
Implementation
Configuration, migration and the unglamorous work of agreeing opening balances. The point is a system people actually use, not a go-live date that is technically met.
- Chart of accounts and dimensions designed once, used everywhere
- History migrated and reconciled before the first posting
- People trained on their own data, not a demo company
Finance expertise
Technical accounting, close discipline, controls and reporting. Practical help from people who have done the job, not a methodology.
- A close that gets shorter and stays shorter
- Controls that hold when the month is busy
- Reporting that a board can act on
Usually next to it
Problems that tend to travel together.
Poor visibility
Tell us how this actually plays out in your business.
We will show you which parts of G1 apply, what is live today and what is not — and say so when the answer is that you do not need us.