month-end close
Why Your Intercompany Balances Never Match (Even When Both Companies Agree)
Sarah is the group financial controller of a UK distribution holding company with four trading subsidiaries. It is 9:47 pm…
How to Prepare for Audit with Consolidated Financials: A Finance Leader’s Guide
For a single-entity business, audit preparation is already a demanding process. For a multi-entity group, it is significantly more complex.…
10 Signs You’ve Outgrown Excel for Financial Consolidation
Nobody builds a consolidation model in Excel and thinks: this will break us eventually. They build it because it solves…
Pulse Health Scores in BrizoConsol: How Finance Teams Monitor Group Financial Performance in Real Time
For most multi-entity finance teams, understanding the true health of the group at any given moment requires opening spreadsheets, chasing…
How to Consolidate Multiple Xero Companies Without Excel
If your group runs more than one Xero company, you already know what the month-end process looks like before any…
How Finance Teams Cut Consolidation Time from Days to Hours
Mark is the CFO of a UK professional services group with six entities spread across three countries. Every month, consolidation…
Why Your Month-End Close Keeps Slipping (And How to Get It Back Under Control)
It was day nine of what was supposed to be a five-day close. The group financial controller of a seven-entity…
How to Use Journal Entries in Group Consolidation (With Examples)
It’s the last Friday of the month. Your Xero instance has the parent’s trial balance. QuickBooks has the US subsidiary’s…
Multi-Entity Month-End Close Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide for Group Finance Teams
It is day three of the month-end close. The financial controller at a four-entity group has the trial balances from…
Automated Intercompany Journals: Cut Manual Work at Group Close
Sarah is the group controller for a nine-entity professional services firm. On the last working day of each month, she…