SAP Business One from a CFO perspective — faster close, clean figures, audit reliability.
You stretch the month-end close as far as it goes because accruals sit in spreadsheets and the payroll interface acts up again? Let's change that. SAP Business One plus the right extensions turns manual work into automation.
The five pain points of finance leadership in mid-sized companies
We speak with finance leaders from distribution and services regularly. It is almost always the same five topics that stretch out the month-end close.
Accruals are manual work
Every month-end close you rebuild the accruals by hand in a spreadsheet. Error-prone, time-consuming, not audit-proof.
Payroll interfaces are brittle
Payroll runs in an external system. A CSV export here, a manual reposting there. Every change in an employee's tax situation becomes an adventure.
Intercompany is a nightmare
Several entities, each with its own bookkeeping, reconciled manually every month. That does not scale as the group grows.
Recurring invoices cause errors
Subscription models, maintenance contracts and licences with different terms and accruals — no fun in a spreadsheet, and certainly not audit-proof.
Project profitability stays unclear
For service providers: costs and revenues per project are not properly matched. You know after the project whether it paid off — not while it runs.
What SAP Business One delivers for a CFO role
Faster month-end close
Integrated accounting instead of system boundaries. No more merging figures from three tools.
Automated accruals
For subscriptions, maintenance and projects — automated audit-proof through AbgrenzungPro.
Native payroll
With PayrollPro directly inside SAP Business One, without broken interfaces to external payroll software.
Clean intercompany
Postings between several entities automated — multiple domestic companies and foreign subsidiaries included.
E-invoicing ready
Common electronic invoicing formats including Peppol, both inbound and outbound, set up for the countries you operate in.
Audit-proof by default
Document processing, journals and documentation designed to satisfy statutory bookkeeping requirements.
Three automations that take pressure off your month-end close
AbgrenzungPro
Automatic period accruals for subscriptions, maintenance and projects. One click instead of manual spreadsheet work. Documented audit-proof.
PayrollPro
Payroll directly inside SAP Business One, no more CSV bridges. For mid-sized companies that want accounting and payroll in one system.
Accounting as a Service
When capacity is missing or holiday periods need covering — we take over day-to-day accounting operations.
What do inefficient processes cost you?
Step 1 of 3
Where are your biggest challenges right now?
Select all areas that apply.
Step 2 of 3
How much time do your employees spend on these tasks each day?
Estimate the average time spent per person.
Step 3 of 3
How many employees are affected?
Number of people who regularly work with these processes.
Your annual inefficiency costs
per year*
Your input
It doesn't have to stay this way.
SAP Business One brings all processes into one system – less manual work, fewer errors, more overview. In a free strategy call, we show you how your specific processes can be optimized.
* Calculation based on the DACH median hourly rate (EUR 52/hr) and 220 working days/year.
What typically gets better
No invented percentages — three areas that measurably improve after the switch:
Month-end close gets shorter
Because manual accruals disappear and postings come from one system instead of three.
Audit reliability rises
Because postings run rule-based instead of by hand — traceable for auditors and tax advisors.
Fewer manual postings
Because automation covers the recurring cases. More time for controlling, less for clicking.
Typical questions from finance leaders
Is SAP Business One powerful enough for an experienced financial accountant?
How does it handle several legal entities?
Does SAP Business One support electronic invoicing?
How do accruals work for recurring invoices?
We have foreign or cross-border entities. Does that work cleanly?
Do we have to give up our tax advisor's software?
30 minutes on your month-end close. Free of charge.
We talk about your setup — accruals, payroll, intercompany, project billing. No pitch, no upselling.
Or give us a call: +49 5132 8634510
What our clients say
"We had serious problems in the process flow between our individual global companies. RConsult fixed them quickly and flawlessly, which cut our internal workload per project substantially."
"RConsult combines deep SAP Business One knowledge with strong SQL skills and a real grasp of complex processes. Thanks to that experience we can view our balance sheet and KPI reports across all our worldwide companies, fully automated and just in time."
