Trusted by finance teams
Most finance departments run on Excel
It works — but it's not professional. And deep down you know it.
Error-prone
Excel has no built-in financial logic. One wrong formula, reference or copy-paste and your numbers are off. Errors are often only discovered when someone asks a question.
Not transferable
You don't have a single source of truth. You have a single source of knowledge and that's one person. With a vacation, illness or departure, the house of cards collapses. New hires need months to understand the model.
The same manual ritual every month
Pulling and merging data manually in Excel. Building analyses and charts. Checking everything. Preparing the management presentation. Error in the source? Start over. The month-end close quickly costs a lot of time and frustration.
No foundation for AI
AI can only work reliably on structured, complete and accessible data. As long as it's spread across Excel files and disconnected tools, AI can't be used effectively and remains a promise.
"Smartbooks helped us deliver reliable reports in a fraction of the time. What used to take days now takes hours, and with more confidence in the numbers."
What's at stake
As long as this doesn't change, you keep doing the same manual work every month. Finance stays fragile and dependent on individuals. And you miss the opportunity to deploy AI reliably.
The question isn't whether you want to change this — but how.
The best-performing finance teams show what's possible:
in the finance function
reporting
strategic partner
Source: The Hackett Group
One system for the controller
Smartbooks brings all the core processes of the business and financial controller together in one platform, directly connected to your accounting and source systems, always the same numbers, without manual transfers.
Reporting
Real-time P&L, balance sheet and cashflow with automatic comparisons and drill-down to the original transaction.
Consolidation
Multi-entity and multi-currency consolidation with automatic intercompany eliminations and sub-consolidation on multiple levels.
Planning & cashflow
Budget, forecast and scenarios in the same system as your actuals, with driver-based models that calculate the way you set them up.
Alex, virtual controller
AI support for month-end close, analyses and presentation, built on a reliable foundation of structured data.
Customer case: Primus Wafer Paper
Food industry · internationally active · ERP + Excel
"In my 30+ years of experience I've worked with many tools, but Smartbooks is by far the easiest and fastest to implement. Within two weeks the system was fully operational, with just 10 hours of time investment from our team."
Live within a week, value from day one.
Forget multi-month implementations. You're technically up and running within two days. After that we work with your team, onboarding, refining the setup, and identifying where the biggest time savings are in your close, reporting and daily workflows.
Connection and setup
Your accounting lives in Smartbooks. Reporting, consolidation and planning structures are set up on your ledger. We do the work, you see your own numbers in the system right away.
Training
Together with your team we walk through the core workflows: close, consolidation, reporting. Everyone learns what's relevant for their role. No generic manual, training on your setup.
Fine-tuning
Smartbooks is running, your team is using it. Now we fine-tune together: sharpening standard reports, adding extra dimensions, aligning checklists. Your rhythm sets the pace.
Book a demo with Michel right now
30 minutes, personal walkthrough based on your situation. No obligation and no sales pitch.
Michel van Wijngaarden
Co-founder Smartbooks
In 30 minutes I'll show you how Smartbooks fits your processes, and what a realistic business case looks like for your team.