Multi-Entity Consolidation Shouldn't Live in Excel

Every month the close goes smoothly right up until you have to add the entities together — then it falls off a cliff into a spreadsheet.

The same rebuild, every month

QuickBooks and Xero don't consolidate natively, and they're not going to. So you export each entity's trial balance, hand-map charts of accounts that never quite match, post intercompany eliminations by hand, and rebuild the consolidated balance sheet and P&L from scratch. One renamed account or a missed elimination and the group numbers are quietly wrong.

• Trial balances exported and merged tab by tab
• Mismatched account names mapped from memory
• Elimination journals re-keyed every period
• A workbook only one person fully trusts

The riskiest number in the firm is the one that only exists in a spreadsheet nobody else can rebuild.

The logic isn't hard. It's just trapped in formulas and tribal knowledge instead of a system that runs the same way every time.

Make consolidation a process, not a heroic effort

You already know exactly how the consolidation should work — which accounts map where, which entities eliminate against each other, how the group rolls up. That knowledge is the product. APLINO's fractional C-suite team turns it into one: a fractional CTO and senior engineers start with a Blueprint that captures your real mapping and elimination rules, ship an MVP your team runs the next close on within weeks, and keep building as you add entities and currencies.