Lack of control
“We don't have enough control over what happens.”
Controls that live in a policy document are not controls. In G1 they live in the database: the submitter cannot approve their own document, locked periods stay locked, and posted records cannot be edited — corrections are new documents.
What it looks like day to day
- Approval limits exist on paper and nowhere else
- Closed periods get reopened quietly
- Posted documents can still be edited
- Nobody can reconstruct who changed what, and when
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.
Scattered
The same capabilities, spread across tools that were each the right answer to a smaller problem.
How G1 approaches it
- Enforce maker-checker where the data is written, not in the interface
- Set approval rules by document type, amount and role
- Lock periods and keep the key with the owner
- Record every change automatically, with no way to switch it off
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
Controls & approvals
Approvals, period locks and an audit trail that cannot be edited.
- AvailableExplore
Compliance
Filing, evidence and period integrity, kept as you go.
- In developmentExplore
Workflow
Approvals and routing across the business, not just finance.
- AvailableExplore
Accounting
A general ledger that drills back to the document behind every number.
- In developmentExplore
Documents
The paperwork attached to the record it belongs to.
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
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
Usually next to it
Problems that tend to travel together.
Lack of control
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.