Tallmont Notes from the ledger room
Practical writing on books, systems, and the finance questions growing businesses actually face.
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QuickBooks to NetSuite Migration: The Playbook for Multi-Entity and Construction Groups
The step-by-step QuickBooks to NetSuite migration playbook for multi-entity and construction groups — cut-off strategy, data mapping, CIP, retainage, ICJEs.
Read →Construction Draw Reconciliation: Why Lender Draws Never Match Your Books (and How to Fix It)
Why construction draw requests and the general ledger drift apart, the real costs of unreconciled draws, and the account structure that makes draw packages reconcile by design.
Read →How to Build a CIP Schedule That Reconciles to Your Books
What a CIP schedule is, the exact columns and cost structure it needs, and how to build one that ties to the general ledger instead of living as a spreadsheet nobody trusts.
Read →CIP Accounting Explained: How Construction in Progress Should Actually Work
What Construction in Progress (CIP) accounting is, why generic charts of accounts butcher it, and how a purpose-built CIP structure gives developers real project cost visibility.
Read →QuickBooks to NetSuite: The 7 Signs It's Time to Switch
How to know your business has outgrown QuickBooks — and what a NetSuite migration actually involves, from entity design to reconciled cutover.
Read →Why Your Intercompany Books Never Reconcile — and How to Fix Them for Good
The five root causes of intercompany mismatches in multi-entity groups, what a real cleanup involves, and the monthly discipline that keeps group books permanently clean.
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