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Smartbooks vs Lucanet

Lucanet is a strong enterprise consolidation tool with heavy governance. Smartbooks covers the complete financial and business control process for the larger SMB — faster to implement and lower in management effort.

Smartbooks vs Bright Analytics

Bright Analytics combines BI with financial reporting and consolidation. Smartbooks goes further with planning, month-end close, and finance-specific workflows — built around the daily processes of controllers.

Smartbooks vs Finstack

Finstack helps SMB organisations professionalise from Excel with standard reports. Smartbooks supports the complete financial and business control process with more depth in consolidation, planning, and analysis.

Smartbooks vs Visionplanner

Visionplanner is strong at periodic reporting and collaboration with the accountant. Smartbooks supports active financial and business control: planning, consolidation, month-end close, and analysis in one platform.

Smartbooks vs Speedbooks

Speedbooks pulls accounting data efficiently into Excel for reporting. Smartbooks replaces Excel architectures with a professional financial and business control platform covering consolidation, planning, and month-end close.

Smartbooks vs Power BI

Power BI is a powerful analytics platform, but not a finance solution. Smartbooks offers finance-specific logic for consolidation, planning, and month-end close — without heavy data modelling or IT dependency.

The best software for financial and business control

Seven tools for financial and business control compared on consolidation, planning, AI, and cost — for Dutch SMBs.

Smart Story Introduction

Discover in 4 minutes how Alex uses Smart Story to generate your monthly variance analysis, explanations, and management presentations.

Alex — Financial Controller

Meet Alex

Alex, the virtual business controller, can assist with many of your financial processes.

Alex — Virtual Business Controller

Is AI Mature Enough for Serious Finance Tasks?

AI is evolving rapidly, but is it ready for high-stakes finance tasks? Discover how you can reliably deploy AI for business control today and what is required.

13-week cash flow planning: peace of mind for you and your bank account

Cash is king. With the 13-week cash flow planning in Smartbooks, you gain real grip on your liquidity and stay ahead of surprises.

Splitting General Ledger Accounts for Accurate Analyses

Discover how Smartbooks' automated ledger splitting enhances financial reporting by enabling precise intercompany eliminations and deeper data insights.

How AI Will Transform the Month-End Close and Financial Reporting

The month-end close is often an intensive, repetitive, and error-prone process. Explore 10 ways AI is set to revolutionize financial reporting for the modern finance manager.

Smartbooks vs. Lucanet: Which Financial Software Best Suits Your Organization?

In the world of financial consolidation and reporting software, Smartbooks and Lucanet are leading choices. Discover which solution fits your business needs.

Settlement of exchange rate differences in Smartbooks.AI

Learn how Smartbooks.AI automates foreign currency translation and handles exchange rate gains and losses for accurate financial reporting.

Smart financial consolidation and reporting with Power BI

Discover how the combination of Power BI and Smartbooks offers a superior solution for professional financial reporting and complex group consolidation.

AI-supported analysis of Profit & Loss reports

Smartbooks introduces new AI functionality to detect bookkeeping errors and pattern deviations in financial reporting.

Reporting from Smartbooks with Excel

Learn how to export and synchronize your Smartbooks financial reports directly into Excel using our specialized add-in.

Month-End Closing

Discover how your organization can optimize periodic accounting activities through different closing methods like soft, hard, and fast close.

Smartbooks 2-minute introduction

Discover in just 2 minutes what Smartbooks can do for your workflow and organization.

Smartbooks 6-minute introduction

Discover in just 6 minutes what Smartbooks can do for your workflow and organization. Includes a brief introduction to the core functionalities.

Alex Johnson — Product Specialist

Smartbooks demo - 12 min

Demo video demonstrating how Smartbooks helps simplify and improve month-end closing, budgeting, consolidation, and reporting.

Month-end closing demo - 3:30 min

Demo video showing how Smartbooks makes the month-end closing process easier and faster.

Budgeting demo - 5 min

Demo video showing how to budget easier and smarter with Smartbooks.

Alex Johnson — Product Specialist

Consolidation demo - 3:30 min

Demo video showing how to fully automate consolidation with Smartbooks, while gaining deeper insights at a consolidated level.

Reporting demo - 4 min

Demo video demonstrating how to fully automate your reporting process with Smartbooks, where the content is fully customizable to your requirements.

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Accounting as a Record-to-Report Process

Discover how the Record-to-Report (R2R) process forms the backbone of modern financial administration and how technology optimizes every step from transaction to reporting.

Internal Editor — Financial Specialist

Budgeting as a Plan to Perform Process

Discover how transforming your budgeting into a 'Plan to Perform' process improves agility, financial control, and overall business performance.

John Doe — Financial Consultant

Rapid Implementation of Smartbooks

Discover how Smartbooks can be quickly and efficiently integrated into your organization for professional reporting, consolidation, and budgeting.

What does Smartbooks cost?

Discover the pricing and standard packages of Smartbooks for professional reporting, consolidation, and budgeting.

Mastering Financial Consolidation: Practical Steps for Success

Is financial consolidation really as complicated as it seems, or can anyone learn it? Discover the essential steps, obligations, methods, and challenges to fully master the process in this blog.

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When Spreadsheets are Less Suitable for Complex Financial Analyses

Are spreadsheets still the best choice for your financial analyses? In our latest blog post, we discuss when spreadsheets are no longer sufficient for complex financial analyses.

The Power of Smartbooks: An Interview with Fractional CFO Marcel Vlug on Innovation in Consolidation Systems

In this interview, fractional CFO Marcel Vlug discusses how innovations in consolidation systems, such as automation and data integration, are helping companies improve their financial processes.

Marcel Vlug — Fractional CFO

The 4 Core Competencies of a Best-In-Class Finance Organization

What are the core competencies of a best-in-class finance organization? Discover how looking back, understanding, and looking ahead are essential for strategic success and informed decision-making.

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To Interface or Not, That is the Question

Discover the strategic considerations behind choosing between direct API integrations or automated file interfaces to optimize your financial data exchange.

Jan de Vries — Head of Integration Strategy

Automated consolidation without Excel; fast and error-free

Financial consolidation is essential and often mandatory for medium-sized enterprises. Discover how automation replaces complex Excel sheets to improve efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting.

Efficiency and Effectiveness in Reporting and Analysis

Learn how top-tier organizations optimize their tracking and financial analysis processes for better performance.

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Design your annual planning cycle and monthly budget update as an end-to-end process

How to design your annual planning cycle and monthly budget update as one end-to-end Plan-to-Perform process: the 5 core steps, the requirements, and why people, system and data make the difference together.

Differences and similarities between FP&A and EPM

Let's dive into the similarities and distinctions between EPM and FP&A.

Modernizing the Finance Function with AI

Smartbooks has a plug-in for ChatGPT that can read monthly reports and subsequently write the commentaries itself.

Best practices in reporting

Which figures and ratios should you monitor periodically to know if your company is on track or if intervention is required?

ESG Reporting

The abbreviation 'ESG' is primarily used in the (international) financial world and stands for 'Environment, Social, and Governance'.

The importance of a business plan

Creating a financial plan for the coming period takes time, and we know for certain that reality will look a little different every month. What then are some good reasons to still dedicate time to this task?

The Difference Between Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting

Reports tell you what happened in the past, but offer little insight into what is likely to happen in the future. Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting were developed for that purpose.

Rolling Forecast

While detailed reporting shows what happened in the past period, a rolling forecast ensures that you and your team look forward every month.

Planning and Budgeting: Top-down, bottom-up, or business model-based?

Smartbooks supports budgeting based on your business model, ensuring your annual plan can be easily adjusted and recalculated.