Case study · Hospitality
A new accountant got books that were already checked.
A hospitality business changing accountants. The new accountant needed to know what the records showed, and what needed a second look, before taking over.
Growth reviews · Connected systems · 3 min read01The leak
The records were in four places.
Sales and costs in the accounts, spending in the bank statements, supplier invoices in an inbox and earlier lodgements with the previous adviser. They had never been checked against each other in one place.
02The fix
Every source checked against the others.
Read-only access to the accounts, nothing changed, and the working kept so the accountant can follow every number.
- Bank statements classified by 60 payee rules covering 99.4% of the money spent, then matched to the accounts.
- GST checked against every supplier invoice email, not a sample.
- A short summary what the records show and what needs a second look, in plain language.
- 99.4%
- of 15 months of bank spending matched to a payee and category
- 1,004
- supplier invoice emails checked against the GST in the accounts
- 3 pages
- of plain findings for the new accountant
03Now
The accountant starts from checked books.
The new accountant received a three-page summary and the working behind it the same day the records were opened. The same price book and invoice reading then went on to cost every product.
From the business’s own accounts, bank statements and supplier invoices, read-only, November 2026.
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