Slow reporting
“Reporting takes too long.”
A slow close is usually an integrity problem in disguise. When subledgers reconcile by construction and periods actually lock, closing stops being an investigation and becomes a review.
What it looks like day to day
- Closing the month is a project, every month
- Subledgers and the ledger have to be reconciled by hand
- The board pack is rebuilt from scratch each time
- Half the close is spent explaining differences, not explaining results
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.
A queue of handoffs
The same capabilities, spread across tools that were each the right answer to a smaller problem.
How G1 approaches it
- Post through one engine so the subledgers cannot drift
- Use period control instead of a spreadsheet of adjustments
- Build the reporting pack from the ledger, not from exports
- Keep the close checklist in the system that does the closing
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.
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Reporting
Statements that tie back, every time, without a reconciliation ritual.
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Consolidation
Group numbers without a month of spreadsheet surgery.
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Controls & approvals
Approvals, period locks and an audit trail that cannot be edited.
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Accounting
A general ledger that drills back to the document behind every number.
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Dashboards
The few numbers you check first, in one place.
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.
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
Process design
Most inefficiency is structural. Process design finds the handoffs where a person is moving data rather than making a decision, and removes them.
- Fewer steps, with clearer ownership
- Approvals where the document is
- A process that works when someone is on holiday
Fractional finance leadership
For businesses that need a finance director's thinking but not a finance director's salary. Planning, reporting discipline, lender and board conversations, and honest advice.
- A plan and a forecast the owner believes
- Board and lender reporting that holds up
- Someone accountable for the numbers
Usually next to it
Problems that tend to travel together.
Slow reporting
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.