The Circumz blog

Field notes on running the business.

Ledgers, payroll, stock, multi-currency, e-invoicing and the day-to-day of contracting, trading, retail, property, farming and manpower businesses. Written for the people who run them.

Finance & Accounting7 min read

Month-end close when the ledger posts itself

Most of a month-end close is making separate systems agree. If every document posts to the ledger in the same transaction, the close becomes a review.

Finance & Accounting6 min read

Invoicing in a foreign currency without the spreadsheet

What has to be true of a quotation, an invoice and a payment for exchange differences to appear on their own, and where the limits are.

Finance & Accounting7 min read

Why job profitability needs connected data

Most project businesses can tell you what a job cost after it closes. Knowing it while the job runs depends on where each cost is recorded.