Group reporting across multiple accounting systems

Who is this for?

Finance teams combining several entities, charts of accounts or source systems. The first deliverable is an agreed management report; statutory consolidation requirements need their own scoped validation.

Inputs and outputs

Input to agree	Output to validate
Entity list and reporting period	Completeness check by entity
Accounting exports or approved connections	Repeatable import and source traceability
Local-to-group account mapping	Comparable reporting lines
Currency and intercompany policies	Explicit rules and exception review

Implementation

1. Select a representative reporting period and difficult entities.
2. Validate extraction, mapping and opening balances.
3. Reconcile one agreed report to source records.
4. Assign exception owners before repeating the process.

Pricing and limits

Ask for a scoped quotation based on entity count, data sources, reporting outputs, historical periods and support. This page is not a published price list or a promise of a fixed implementation time. Confirm the exact integrations, accounting rules and required approvals in a demonstration.

Questions to bring

Which figures must reconcile? Who owns mapping changes? Which reports require specialist accounting review? What happens when an entity submits late?

Design the exception register first

1. List the expected entities and source files for one period. Identify a submission owner for each entity.
2. Define the target report and the source totals used to validate it before building transformations.
3. Keep missing inputs, unmapped accounts and unexplained differences in a visible register with an owner.
4. Require the finance reviewer to accept the report and resolve or explicitly acknowledge each exception.

Evidence to keep

Exception	Action before release
Missing entity submission	Obtain the file or record the agreed scope limitation
Unmapped account	Assign and review a mapping; preserve the source account
Unexplained difference	Trace the contributing records and document the resolution