The Excel accruals schedule is a workaround that became a process. Here's why it stops working at scale, and how finance teams managing SaaS subscriptions, multiple entities and missing bills are fixing it in Xero. When the auditors ask what's in your prepayments balance, you'll have the answer.

If a client pays £12,000 upfront for an annual subscription, that's not January's revenue. Here's how deferred revenue works in Xero, where the manual process fails, and how to automate it.

Month-end close in Xero doesn't have to be a seven-day scramble. Here's exactly what Xero handles natively, where it falls short, and how to automate the rest.