Automate the accounting, not just the reporting.
Reporting is the easy part. Critical Finance does the accounting: it takes the raw data from your ERP, applies your policies in code and produces reconciled management accounts every day. Save money, cut costs, drive upside.
Save money
We cut your costs by automating the manual work. Extracting ERP data, reconciling accounts and building the management accounts are done by machine, not by your finance team. Days saved on every close.
Make money
We give you a strategic view of your business that drives the upside. Live margin by entity, customer and product, and what-if planning on real numbers, every day.
Be more efficient
Get on top of tax, costs, debtors and cash. The platform raises what needs attention in the month it arises, while there is still time to act.
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"Everyone else solves half the problem. Critical Finance takes the raw data, applies your accounting rules, reconciles it, and turns it straight into live management accounts and forecasts. One workflow instead of five tools." Dom Ahern, Chief Executive Officer, Best Suited
Critical Future is trusted by
- Salesforce
- FedEx
- DHL
- Siemens
- Roche
- Accenture
- BDO
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Kuehne + Nagel
- DB Schenker
- XPO Logistics
- Rackspace
- Penta Capital
- Stratasys
- Patrizia
- DNV
- Glen Dimplex
- ATP Tour
- Open Data Institute
The reality inside almost every mid-market business right now.
There is an ERP, SAP or otherwise, and the numbers come out of it. But not all of them. The rest live in spreadsheets: this entity's trial balance emailed over in Excel, that subsidiary's numbers on a different tab.
Every month a finance director has to drag all of it into one place by hand, reconcile it, and turn it into a management view the chief executive can actually use. By the time the board pack is ready, the data is already out of date.
- Disjointed data and broken links
- Weeks late, steering in the rear-view mirror
- Manual reconciliations prone to error
| Revenue_EU | 4,201,550 |
| Revenue_US | 8,112,000 |
| Intercompany_Adj | Does not tie to TB |
| FX_Rate_Q3 | Hard-coded |
| EBITDA_Est | #REF! |
We do not just build you a dashboard. We re-engineer your financial data pipeline from the ground up.
Data is pulled from the ERP and your own accounting policies are applied in code rather than by hand. Out come the profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow, variance against budget, the board pack in PowerPoint and the accounts in Excel.
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Flawless integration
We connect to your data wherever it lives: API, secure token, FTP drop or automated email. Every source becomes machine-to-machine. No more manual downloads.
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The analytical engine
All your data lands in a purpose-built analytical engine that works through millions of rows in seconds, sitting securely on your own infrastructure.
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Your rules, applied
Your accounting policies encoded and applied deterministically: accruals and prepayments, revenue recognition, cut-off, intercompany eliminations and currency translation. The same way, every time. It reconciles to the penny.
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The live dashboard
Group P&L, actuals against plan and variance bridges, refreshed every single day. Any line drills back to the underlying ledger entry, so a question at the board table is answered in the meeting.
Datarails reports on the accounting. Critical Finance does the accounting.
| What you get | Critical Finance | Datarails |
|---|---|---|
| Connects to your raw transactions, not a finished trial balance | ||
| Does the reconciliation itself, by machine | ||
| Matches and eliminates intercompany at transaction level | ||
| Reconciles to the penny, the same way every time | ||
| Management accounts every day, without waiting for month end | ||
| No spreadsheets anywhere in the pipeline | ||
| Runs on your own infrastructure | ||
| Your data never leaves your walls | ||
| Artificial intelligence only ever questions reconciled numbers | ||
| Priced on the pipeline we run for you, not per user seat |
Datarails is a trademark of its owner. Comparison based on its published product documentation and independent reviews; features change and should be confirmed with the vendor.
Your numbers stay inside your business.
Zero egress
Your data never leaves your walls. Nothing is copied out to a third party to be processed.
On-premise engine
The analytical engine runs on your infrastructure, inside the controls your IT team already operates.
Enterprise grade
Bank-level encryption standard, in transit and at rest, with access controlled by your own permissions.
See the truth of your business today, not six weeks ago. Live. Reconciled. Trustworthy.
Turn your finance team from data janitors back into the strategic advisers they were hired to be.
info@criticalfinance.co.uk | +44 7366 319902 | London, United Kingdom