Assets
Monitor, control, and optimize the use of your physical and digital assets. It serves as a centralized system for tracking asset information, reducing costs, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Centralized Inventory: Provides a single source of truth for all asset-related data, including location, condition, and ownership.
- Real-Time Updates: Enables real-time tracking and status updates, reducing the risk of misplaced or lost assets.
- Lifecycle Management: Tracks assets from acquisition to disposal, optimizing their useful life.
Chart of Accounts
Organize and categorize financial transactions efficiently with a structured Chart of Accounts. It serves as the foundation for financial reporting, ensuring accurate tracking of assets, liabilities, equity, income, and expenses while maintaining compliance with accounting standards.
Account Types
ForgeFlow Cloud categorizes accounts into five types:
- Assets: Company resources (cash, inventory, fixed assets).
- Liabilities: Financial obligations (loans, accounts payable).
- Equity: Net worth (investments, retained earnings).
- Income: Revenue from sales or services.
- Expenses: Operational costs (salaries, depreciation, cost of sales).
Creating a Chart of Accounts
The Chart of Accounts can be created in three ways:
- From scratch: Custom-built to fit the organization’s structure.
- Importing: Transferred from a previous system for continuity.
- Localization packages: Predefined to meet national regulations.
Project Accounting (Cost-to-Cost)
ForgeFlow Cloud ERP enables accurate accounting for long-term projects such as construction, solar installations, or ERP implementations. Using the internationally recognized cost-to-cost method (IFRS 15, ASC 606), it ensures that revenues and costs are recognized progressively based on actual project progress. This approach provides a transparent and reliable picture of profitability throughout the project lifecycle.
Planned Revenues and Costs
Define the contract value and expected revenues at the moment a sales order is confirmed. Planned revenues can be adjusted if the project scope changes, ensuring that contractual modifications are reflected in financial forecasts. On the cost side, build a complete plan of expected project resources — materials, labor, subcontractors, and overheads — with scheduled dates and budgeted amounts. This initial definition sets the baseline for measuring progress.
Automated Cost Capture
Record actual costs directly against the project as soon as they occur. Supplier invoices, employee timesheets, subcontractor expenses, and material consumption are automatically allocated to the project. Costs feed into the analytical ledger in real time, ensuring that the system always reflects the most up-to-date financial status of the project.
Work in Progress (WIP) Statement
Generate WIP reports that calculate the project’s progress by comparing incurred costs against the total estimated costs (cost-to-cost method). The statement determines how much revenue should be recognized in the period, compares it against what has already been recognized, and highlights the accumulated profit or loss. This gives finance teams and project managers full visibility into both accounting compliance and project performance.
Over/Under Billing Management
Avoid distortions in financial statements by separating client billing from revenue recognition. When invoices exceed recognized revenue, the system records the difference as a liability (excess billing / deferred income). When recognized revenue exceeds invoicing, it records an asset (work performed not yet billed). These automatic postings ensure compliance and keep balance sheets accurate throughout the project.
Progressive Revenue Recognition
At every closing period, the ERP recalculates project progress and adjusts recognized revenue accordingly. This progressive recognition aligns revenues with the actual advancement of the project, preventing artificial profit spikes and ensuring that financial results reflect reality. Profitability can be analyzed period by period, supporting better decision-making.
Automated Project Closing
Once the project reaches completion, the system finalizes revenue and cost recognition, and automatically clears all bridge accounts such as Work Not Billed, Excess Billing, and Project Billing. The project’s true margin is revealed, and no temporary balances remain. This guarantees a clean and accurate financial close.
Audit and Compliance
Annual accounts
Access real-time insights with customized financial reports, including income statements and balance sheets.
Standard chart of accounts
Use the country-specific standard account plan or use your own.
Bank & Payments
Bank synchronization
Reconcile transactions automatically by syncing with your bank accounts to maintain up-to-date records.
Payment integration
Support for multiple payment methods, providers and gateways to streamline transactions and payment reconciliation.
Taxes
AvaTax integration
The AvaTax integration automates tax calculations and compliance processes. It automatically calculates the applicable taxes on transactions based on precise location and jurisdiction rules.
- Helps manage tax exemption certificates for eligible customers and ensures they are applied correctly to transactions
- Simplifies filing tax returns by preparing and submitting the necessary documents.
- Offers tools for remitting taxes to the appropriate jurisdictions.
Scalability
Multi-currency and multi-company
Easily manage accounts across currencies and units for global businesses with automatic currency conversion and consolidated financial views.
Invoicing
Manage multiple invoicing workflows, issue invoices in different formats, and apply discounts or handle payments with multiple invoices to suit your business needs.
Electronic invoicing
Automate communication between companies of invoices using globally recognized formats such as Factur-X, Peppol or CFDI, based on local compliance requirements. Both sending and receiving are supported.
Vendor Bills
Manage 3-way matching on vendor bills
In the manufacturing industry, people often receive the vendor bills before receiving their purchase, but they don't want to pay the bill until the goods have been delivered. A "release to pay" mechanism allows you to mark, for each vendor bill, whether it can be paid or not. As soon as all the quantities have been delivered, the bill can be paid. If there's a quantity between the received and the billed quantities, the bill cannot be paid, unless the accounting department explicitly releases the bill to pay.