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Import or sync activity, review the details, and understand the numbers—all in one accounting system.
Bring in a statement and inspect the extracted records before approval or posting.
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Built-in statement import
Extracted · Review pendingThe supplied PDF is assigned to Cedar Studio’s operating account and extracted for review. The source and destination remain attached to its records.
The source, destination and review state stay attached to the work.
Review the venue agreement, business purpose and refund conditions before proposing treatment. A refundable deposit paid may be an asset, not an expense; supplying context is separate from approval.
Keep the extracted payment separate from assumptions about its accounting treatment.
The three amounts shown in this fictional source excerpt sum to $2,813, matching the extracted payment total. That arithmetic check does not settle the categories or reconcile the whole account.
Both sides refer to the same three-payment excerpt.
Use existing categories, confirmed history and eligible cross-entity learning. Review every proposed change.
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A COA supplies categories and their hierarchy. A trial balance supplies accounts plus balances requiring validation. Categorized rows supply explicit prior treatments; the current transaction still needs review.
Do not infer past vendor treatment from an account name or balance alone.
Eligible confirmed vendor identities can be proposed for the mapped target category. Transactions, amounts, raw descriptions and arbitrary aliases do not move. Existing target behavior wins until an authorized update is separately approved and applied.
The $60 source and $120 target payments are separate fictional transactions. Recognition uses the eligible confirmed vendor identity, not identical amounts or raw-description matching. The pictured target suggestion is conditional on approved and applied learning.
The sample payee description and amount match the earlier repair payment. That supports reviewing Repairs & maintenance as a candidate; check that the current invoice also covers routine key/lock work rather than a capital improvement.
Separate matching clues from evidence that still needs review.
It remains open. Supply the venue agreement, purpose and refund terms, then inspect a proposed category. Money leaving the bank does not make the deposit an expense. The other two suggestions also require review; no record changes just because a suggestion exists.
Read-only suggestions can include an explicit decision not to guess.
Approval authorizes this exact preview; it does not itself apply the change. A subsequent authorized apply updates the category if the preview is still valid. The amount and date stay unchanged, and this example performs neither approval nor apply.
Inspect the contract and proposal before approving it in Categoric. New or changed proposals need their own review.
Compare statement balances with activity, inspect likely errors, then review a suggested correction and recheck.
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TXN-0921-025 is the September 21 bank service fee, categorized as Bank fees. It was recorded as +$25, but the statement shows −$25. Reversing that direction would reduce the ledger by $50 to $12,200. This is a proposed correction, not an applied change.
The category stays Bank fees. Review the inflow-to-outflow correction before applying it.
Compare each check’s amount, date and payee with the relevant bank activity. A suggested candidate is not a confirmed match.
The check image and transaction are separate pieces of evidence.
The balance comparison is complete in this example. The two check-image matches are not. Keep those decisions separate before signing off.
Numerical agreement is not a complete close checklist.
Inspect profit and loss, period changes and cash-versus-accrual views with their supporting records.
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Payroll contributes $10,000 and Repairs & maintenance contributes $6,000 to this separate report’s $16,000 expense total. These are routine operating repairs, not capital improvements.
The two account totals reconcile to the reported line.
The $2,000 revenue increase was partly offset by $1,000 of additional expenses. The remaining $1,000 is the increase in net income.
Explain the arithmetic before attributing the change to a business cause.
Accrual revenue is $2,500 higher and expenses are $2,000 higher than the cash view. The $500 net-income variance is not additional cash collected.
Do not infer invoice-level causes or cash movement from the net difference alone.
Track recurring revenue, spending and source-based margin. Margin reporting requires an enabled, authorized workspace.
Metrics depend on the available records and relevant period. Missing inputs are not invented or treated as zero. Acquisition and customer data support CAC and LTV; cash and burn assumptions support runway.
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The difference is $4,000. Divide that by July’s $20,000 starting value to get 20%. The average of the three stored monthly values is $22,000.
A transparent calculation from the displayed records, with no prediction added.
These are category totals for the selected expense activity, not individual source transactions.
Birch Properties · September 2026 · USD. Routine repairs only; totals do not establish overspending or authorize changes.
Revenue less cost of goods sold is $30,000. Dividing that by $50,000 of revenue gives 60%. With zero revenue, the percentage would be unavailable—not zero. Entity scope, basis and source-report readiness still matter.
The authorized report scope and source statements define what the ratio means.
Inspect group reporting, entity contributions and intercompany candidates. Unrelated clients’ financial totals stay separate.
Group reporting is availability-limited and requires enabled, authorized workspaces. No currency conversion or automatic eliminations are implied. Ask about availability
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A $500 account in Cedar Studio has no confirmed group mapping. Review that mapping, then regenerate the report. An approval must not silently rewrite the old snapshot.
A visible amount does not make a report final.
Revenue adds to $40,000 and expenses add to $26,000. That leaves $14,000, matching the sum of the two entity contributions.
Each contribution retains its entity identity.
First verify the counterparties, agreement and nature of the transfer. Then inspect any proposed group adjustment. Separate authorized human approval must precede apply, and a regenerated report shows any approved effect. This example makes no classification or elimination.
No relationship or treatment is confirmed, and no actual operation is created, approved or applied.
Cedar Studio has two unmatched check images. Cedar Services has one statement difference to investigate. Open the relevant entity to continue the review.
The operational count identifies work, not a combined balance.
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