Month-end close can become significantly more complex when finance teams manage multiple companies, subsidiaries, locations, or other legal entities. Each entity may require reconciliations, accruals, intercompany entries, allocations, financial statements, and other closing activities before the organization can complete consolidated reporting.
When those companies are maintained in separate accounting systems or databases, finance teams may spend additional time switching between company files, reconciling intercompany balances, combining financial information in spreadsheets, and investigating discrepancies.
A faster multi-entity month-end close is not simply about completing tasks more quickly. It is about reducing manual processes, standardizing close procedures, improving financial visibility, and completing more accounting activity throughout the month.
Month-end close is one of several multi-entity accounting challenges CFOs and finance teams may need to address as their organizations grow.
Here are the capabilities and processes that can help finance teams streamline the month-end close across multiple entities.
What makes the month-end close process so time-consuming is that finance teams must coordinate many accounting activities across multiple entities. The following strategies can help reduce manual work, keep financial information current throughout the month, and shorten the multi-entity close.
An important part of closing the books is making sure accounts receivable and accounts payable are current. Outstanding invoices, late payments, unprocessed bills, and other incomplete transactions can delay the close and create additional reconciliation work at period-end. The best way to avoid this is to stay on top of invoices and expenses throughout the month. That can be easier said than done, as invoicing involves the unpredictable element of human behavior.
By automating elements of accounts payable and accounts receivable, including using AI-powered invoice processing, Gravity removes many of the manual steps in this process. With Gravity, you can:
With Gravity Software's automated invoicing process, you can easily maintain your general ledger throughout the month instead of being surprised by missing payments at the end of the accounting period.
While intercompany transactions can occur at any point in the month, they may be a prominent part of your accounting procedures if one company handles payroll for an entire multi-entity organization. Allocating payroll across entities in legacy software requires creating separate "due from" journal entries to record each company's share of the payroll, then logging into and out of the other companies' databases to create a "due to" entry in each one. All this manual data entry is time-consuming and prone to errors.
Multi-entity accounting software can reduce this work by automatically creating corresponding intercompany entries when transactions affect more than one company. Due-to and due-from activity can remain aligned across entities, reducing the manual reconciliation required during month-end close.
When your team is calculating depreciation for every company vehicle or piece of equipment at the end of each month, the term "fixed assets" probably seems like a misnomer since those numbers are anything but fixed. Managing your company's assets is even more chaotic if you have information in multiple places, using one software for your company's everyday accounting, another system for fixed asset management, and still another for managing other types of investments.
With Gravity’s fixed asset and investment management modules, you can track physical assets alongside other interests to create a single source of truth for all of your company's financial data. Here's how Gravity can support your team in managing fixed assets:
Without the right technology, reconciling your bank books and credit card statements is one of the most tedious tasks on the month-end checklist. Poring over statements from multiple bank accounts and comparing each and every transaction listed to the transactions you have in your records can take hours, requiring you or your team to stay late into the evening just to keep up.
If you're a multi-entity company with legacy accounting software that requires you to repeatedly log into and out of multiple databases, or if you're pulling statements from multiple sources, such as checks, bank websites, and email, this process becomes even more tedious.
"With all the time we’re saving on bank reconciliation, month-end close, and other routine tasks, we can do more financial analysis, budgeting, and providing valuable feedback to the company on strategic direction.”
— Tera Carpenter, VP of Finance & HR, Dr. Tavel Family Eye Care
Gravity Software's bank book management capabilities can streamline account reconciliation by bringing bank transactions and accounting activity together in the same environment.
By automating bank transaction matching and bringing bank activity into the accounting environment, finance teams can reduce the manual work required for bank reconciliation and keep reconciliations more current throughout the month.
Preparing financial statements can become one of the most time-consuming parts of the month-end close when finance teams have to gather financial information from separate company files and manually combine it for reporting.
Multi-entity accounting software can simplify this process by allowing finance teams to generate entity-level and consolidated financial reports from a centralized accounting environment. Instead of repeatedly exporting and combining financial information in spreadsheets, teams can analyze individual companies, selected groups of entities, or the organization as a whole.
Automating the next step—report distribution—can further streamline the close. Finance teams can create predefined report packages for executives, boards, investors, lenders, or other stakeholders and securely deliver the appropriate financial information without manually assembling and emailing reports each reporting period.
Gravity Software's automated financial report distribution allows finance teams to create reusable report packages, select formats such as PDF or Excel, and distribute financial information to the appropriate stakeholders.
With financial information available throughout the month, finance teams can spend less time assembling reports at period-end and more time reviewing results, investigating variances, and providing financial insights to leadership.
For Dr. Tavel Family Eye Care, its previous Sage 100 environment contributed to a month-end close that extended beyond 30 days. The organization was also dealing with manual reconciliation, physical paperwork and limitations managing multiple entities.
After implementing Gravity Software, Dr. Tavel reduced its month-end close to approximately 10–15 days within the first few months. Gravity also streamlined bank reconciliation, intercompany transactions and other accounting processes, giving the finance team more time for financial analysis, budgeting and strategic decision-making.
Read the Dr. Tavel Family Eye Care case study
Gravity Software helps multi-entity organizations streamline month-end close by bringing financial processes across companies into a centralized accounting environment. Finance teams can automate intercompany accounting, streamline bank reconciliation, manage financial activity across entities, and generate consolidated financial reports without relying on separate company databases and manual spreadsheet processes.
Built natively on the Microsoft Power Platform, Gravity connects financial operations with Microsoft technologies including Power BI, Power Automate, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Copilot, helping finance teams automate routine processes, support AI-assisted accounting and financial tasks, and gain greater visibility throughout the accounting period to support a faster month-end close.
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Updated September 11, 2026