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How to Calculate Your Profitability: A Case Study

CFO Simplified

This CFO Simplified client watched profitability slowly disappear—until they incurred a $125,000 loss. Manufacturing variances were caused by a variety of factors, but the summary general ledger (GL) postings didn’t provide an answer. . This information was available from their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

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How do I clean up my financial statements?

CFO Share

Too many general ledger (GL) accounts. Unsophisticated GL structures. Too many general ledger accounts. Accounting software makes it easy to add GL accounts but hard to remove them. That can lead to “GL diarrhea”: too many ledgers, multi-page P&Ls, and unusable financial statements.