ReplacesXeroSage 50QuickBooks
General Ledger
vs exporting to a separate ledger
A full double-entry general ledger native to the operation — journals post idempotently from the work and the invoices that generated them, to the penny, with the trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, VAT-100 and CIS300 built in. The books ARE the system of record, not a nightly export.
Why it wins
- Full double-entry GL: chart of accounts, balanced journals, year-end close
- Integer-pence throughout — no floating-point rounding in the ledger
- Trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, bank reconciliation and VAT-100/CIS300 built in
- Journals post from the work itself — one system of record, not an export
How it compares
Measured on publicly available data against the named market leader(s) it replaces. Every row links its source.
| IMAISA | The market leader | |
|---|---|---|
| Integration | The ledger is native — journals post from the work and invoices | General accounting package; FM data is exported and reconciledsource for the Integration comparison |
| Money accuracy | Integer pence throughout the ledger | Standard accounting; no published integer-pence accuracy guaranteesource for the Money accuracy comparison |
| UK statutory returns | VAT-100 and CIS300 generated from the ledger | VAT via MTD; CIS is often a separate module or productsource for the UK statutory returns comparison |
Double-entrybalanced journals
penceinteger-accurate ledger
VAT-100+ CIS300 built in
Onesystem of record
Engineered across 1 architecture decision records (0168 (migrations 085-091)) — a deliberately-built module, not a checkbox.