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How the accounting workflows around an ERP are actually built, and what breaks them.
By problem
Opening plus additions less recognition equals closing, and the total agrees to the ledger. Then somebody asks which contracts make up the balance, and the spreadsheet cannot answer.
4 min readBoth NetSuite and Acumatica will hold a fair value price and allocate with it. Neither derives it from your own sales history, and that derivation is the part an auditor asks to see.
4 min readAdding seats in month 14 either modifies the original arrangement or stands alone. The distinction changes the schedule, and the system only applies it if it hears about the change.
4 min readWhether a renewal commission gets its own treatment changes the schedule, the balance, and what happens when the customer eventually leaves.
3 min readA customer leaves early and the commission is recovered. Whether that lands in the current period or against the capitalised balance changes both numbers.
4 min readNetSuite capitalises and amortises commissions natively. What it does not do is decide how long the benefit lasts, and that decision changes every number.
4 min readEngineering plans in sprints and finance reports in months. Here is how to derive a defensible cost allocation without asking engineers to fill in timesheets.
5 min readMost software capitalization trackers sort by development stage. Here is what happens to the spreadsheet when that column stops carrying meaning.
5 min readA concrete schema for tracking software development cost without organising everything around development stages, and what each table is for.
5 min readWhen an unvested grant lapses, the expense already recognised stays recognised. Treating it as a correction is what makes the rollforward stop closing.
3 min readNeither NetSuite nor Acumatica has a stock compensation module. Here is why the monthly journal is manual everywhere, and what makes it reconcile.
3 min readAn employee moves from engineering to product in month seven. The allocation is the specific thing that breaks a spreadsheet, and here is why.
3 min readA term extension, an index reset, or an added cage forces a rebuild rather than an edit. Here is why, and what a portfolio-safe version looks like.
4 min readA colocation invoice bundles space, power, connectivity and support into one line. Here is how to split it and how to defend the basis you used.
4 min readA colocation or capacity contract arrives as an operating expense and gets coded to facilities. Here is what to look for before it becomes a restatement.
5 min readBoth NetSuite and Acumatica keep an audit trail you cannot edit. Neither assembles it into something you can hand over, and that is the actual work.
4 min readMost finance teams run between three and eight schedules in spreadsheets. Here is how to find yours and how to judge which one to bring in first.
3 min readA balance moved and nobody knows why. The difference between a system that can answer that and one that cannot is whether movements are stored as events.
4 min readStart here
Six modules that close the gap between what the ERP posts and what the workflow needs.