Group & multi-entity
One group view.
Every entity still accountable.
SynqLedger brings entity reporting, currency, intercompany activity and group adjustments into a governed consolidated view — while keeping the underlying company and evidence visible.
The group picture
See the group without losing the companies underneath it
A group is more than a total. It is a set of real companies, each with its own currency, its own customers and its own obligations. SynqLedger presents the consolidated view without hiding the businesses that produced it.
| Entity | Role in the group | Ownership | Functional currency | Treatment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group holding company | Parent | — | GBP | Group reporting entity |
| Operating company | Manufacturing and trading | 100% | GBP | Included in full |
| Distribution company | Distribution and logistics | 80% | GBP | Included in full, with NCI |
| International subsidiary | European operations | 100% | EUR | Included in full, translated |
| Associate investment | Minority holding | 30% | GBP | Held as an investment |
- Group holding companyParentOwnership—CurrencyGBPTreatmentGroup reporting entity
- Operating companyManufacturing and tradingOwnership100%CurrencyGBPTreatmentIncluded in full
- Distribution companyDistribution and logisticsOwnership80%CurrencyGBPTreatmentIncluded in full, with NCI
- International subsidiaryEuropean operationsOwnership100%CurrencyEURTreatmentIncluded in full, translated
- Associate investmentMinority holdingOwnership30%CurrencyGBPTreatmentHeld as an investment
Illustrative composition — not customer data. Ownership, currency and how each company is represented in the group are held on the platform rather than in a separate model.
Entities → group
Separate companies converging into one governed view
Entities report, periods are aligned, local currency is understood in one reporting currency, internal activity is reconciled, and the group view is assembled and reported.
Entities
Each company reports its own position
Align
Companies are brought onto a common reporting basis
Translate
Local currency understood in one reporting currency
Reconcile
Activity between companies is identified
Consolidate
One governed group view is assembled
Report
Group results with the entities still readable
Separate company flows converge into one governed group view. How each step is produced and governed is shown in the guided demo rather than published here.
Multi-currency
Operate in local currency. Understand the group in one reporting currency.
A European subsidiary should keep trading in euro. Group leadership should still be able to read the whole business in one currency, with the currency evidence behind it governed rather than assumed.
Currency
Local currency preserved, one group reading produced
UK companies
Trading and distribution in sterling
European subsidiary
Local operations in euro
International activity
Selected trade in dollars
One reporting currency for the group, local currency preserved for the company
Currency evidence stays governed and attached to what it relates to, so a group figure can still be read back to the company that produced it in its own currency.
Illustrative composition — not customer data.
Intercompany
The group should not report business it did with itself
Companies inside a group trade with each other, recharge each other and lend to each other. SynqLedger identifies and manages those positions so group reporting reflects the economic relationship with the outside world.
Operating company
Sells and recharges to another company in the same group.
Distribution company
Carries the other side of the same business relationship.
The relationship with the outside world
Internal activity is identified and managed so group reporting reflects real external business.
Illustrative composition — not customer data. How internal positions are identified and managed is covered in the guided demo.
Acquisition
Keep the acquisition story connected to the group position
An acquisition changes the group permanently. What was paid, what was acquired, what premium was recognised and what share is not owned by the group stay part of one connected picture.
- 01
Investment
What the group paid to acquire the company
- 02
Net assets
What the acquired company brought with it
- 03
Goodwill
The premium recognised in the group position
- 04
NCI
The share of a company the group does not own
- 05
Group position
The acquisition reflected in the group view
An acquisition is a business event with a lasting effect on the group position. The way that effect is produced and governed is shown in the guided demo, not published here.
Group financial position
What the group is worth, and who contributed to it
Revenue, result, cash, working capital, net assets, goodwill and non-controlling interests read together — with every entity's contribution still visible.
Illustrative composition — not customer data.
Drill-down
The consolidated number should still know where it came from.
A group figure that cannot be traced back to a company is a figure someone has to defend from memory. SynqLedger keeps the path from the group result to the entity and the evidence beneath it.
Group result → entity evidence
From the consolidated figure back toward the business activity
- Group resultConsolidated operating result£5.2m for the period
- Entity contributionOperating company£3.1m of the group result
- Entity positionThe company's own financial positionReported in its own currency
- EvidenceThe business activity beneath itThe transactions that produced the figure
Illustrative composition — not customer data. A group figure should still know which company it came from.
Standalone integrity
Consolidation should explain the group — not rewrite the companies
Group adjustments belong to the governed group view. The companies keep their own reporting, so statutory truth and the consolidated story can both be relied on.
The company stays the company
Each entity's own reporting remains its own — group work does not quietly rewrite it.
Group adjustments stay in the group view
Adjustments made for group reporting live in the group layer where they can be seen and explained.
Both readings remain available
Statutory reporting for the company and consolidated reporting for the group, from one platform.
Working capital
See where working capital sits across the group
Receivables, inventory, payables and cash rarely sit evenly across a group. Seeing which company is holding the operating capital is the difference between managing the group and reporting it.
| Entity | Receivables | Inventory | Payables | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating company | £6.4m | £5.1m | £4.2m | £3.8m |
| Distribution company | £3.9m | £3.4m | £2.6m | £2.9m |
| European subsidiary | £2.2m | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Corporate | £0.3m | — | £0.4m | £1.1m |
- Operating companyReceivables£6.4mInventory£5.1mPayables£4.2mCash£3.8m
- Distribution companyReceivables£3.9mInventory£3.4mPayables£2.6mCash£2.9m
- European subsidiaryReceivables£2.2mInventory£1.3mPayables£1.4mCash£1.6m
- CorporateReceivables£0.3mInventory—Payables£0.4mCash£1.1m
Illustrative composition — not customer data. Working capital is where the operating cycle behind these figures lives.
Cash & treasury
See cash across entities without losing the bank and account context beneath it
A single group cash figure is only useful if you can still see which company holds it, in which currency, and in which account.
Two operating accounts · GBP
£3.8mOperating account · GBP
£2.9mLocal account · EUR
£1.6mHolding account · GBP
£1.1mGroup cash position, with the account and the company still beneath it
£9.4mIllustrative composition — not customer data. Cash & treasury covers how bank and account context is held today, and what direct bank connectivity is planned to add.
Management questions
The questions a group CFO actually asks
Which entity is driving group profit?
Where is group cash concentrated?
Which entities are consuming working capital?
What is driving the currency movement?
Where are the largest intercompany differences?
How much of the group position relates to NCI?
Management questions the platform's governed group evidence is built to support.
Intelligence
Explaining the group movement, not just reporting it
A future intelligence layer will explain the group position from the governed evidence already in the platform.
AI that understands the business behind the numbers.
“Which entity caused the group profit decline?”
Which company moved
Where group revenue changed
How performance shifted
What currency contributed
What related to internal activity
Where operating capital moved
Intelligence is not live today. When it arrives it will explain the group position from the same governed evidence — it will never become the authority for it.
Across the platform
The group view is produced by the business beneath it
Every group figure begins somewhere: a customer, a supplier, a shift, a shipment, a payment. Those live across SynqLedger and arrive in the group view together.
Outcomes
What this gives group finance
See the group and the entities beneath it.
One consolidated view without losing the company that produced each figure.
Bring currency, intercompany and acquisition context into one view.
The things that make a group harder than a company, held in one governed place.
Follow consolidated figures back toward entity evidence.
From the group result to the contribution, the position and the activity behind it.
Understand where performance, cash and working capital come from.
Which company is driving the group, and which one is consuming it.
See it properly
The detail lives in the demo
How periods are aligned, how currency is governed, how internal positions are managed, how acquisition context is carried and how the consolidated view is assembled is shown in a guided walkthrough rather than published on the website.
See your group and your companies in the same view
A guided walkthrough of group structure, currency, intercompany, acquisition context and consolidated reporting — with the entity evidence still readable beneath it.