Every figure traces back
Each amount ties to the ledger rows and product records it came from. Nothing is derived from a number nobody can find again, and any run can be replayed from the records it used.
Financial close · variance analysis
Explain what moved. Name what you can't.
Valcenra ties every figure to the records behind it, attributes the movement to price, volume, mix and cost — and states the part the records will not support, by amount, with an owner, before anybody publishes.
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Gross profit · FY2026 P09
Actual vs budget
| Total volume | +4,666.67 |
| Product mix | −2,666.67 |
| Net selling price | −3,200 |
| Recognized unit cost | −7,200 |
| Unexplained | −1,000 |
−1,000 USD is not explained by the approved drivers. Owned by the controller, evidence requested, and disclosed on any report published before it is resolved. Most systems would put this in rounding.
Three things that hold under questioning
The test of a close system isn't how fast it produces an answer. It's what happens when somebody asks where a number came from.
Unexplained stays visible
A movement the approved drivers don't account for becomes an item with an owner and required evidence — not a rounding line.
Nothing publishes quietly
Publication is refused while material amounts are unexplained, unless the report discloses them.
The proof is the product.Start the same evidence-first close
workflow without a sales call.
How a close runs
Four steps, each refusing rather than guessing when the records won't carry the answer.
Bring the data in
Accepted whole or rejected whole, with the reason in words. A half-imported population is the one thing reconciliation can't detect.
Explain the movement
Price, volume, mix and cost, against a mapping version approved before the period it governs.
Work what's left
Assigned, evidenced, and either established or accepted as unresolved — a decision somebody made, on the record.
Publish with the caveats
Reports carry their unresolved amounts and state the basis they were prepared on.
What it refuses to do
On the page, before you buy. A buyer who'd rather have a tool that always produces an answer should find out here, not three months in.
- It doesn't post journals, move money, or approve anything. It reads and explains.
- It won't attribute a movement to a driver the records don't support, however small the remainder.
- It won't let a preparer approve their own work, or a benefit be counted twice.
- It's not an audit and issues no opinion. Every report says so, with the basis it was prepared on.
Free guides and templates
Worked examples that tie to the penny, and spreadsheets you can use today. The explainer library covers the theory.
- Bank reconciliation template (Excel): a three-tab workbook that shows RECONCILED when the difference is zero.
- Bank reconciliation example: a worked example with deposits in transit, outstanding checks, fees, interest, an NSF check and a $280 recording error, reconciled to zero.
- How to undo a bank reconciliation in QuickBooks Online: unreconcile one transaction or undo a whole reconciliation, with the steps cited to Intuit's help pages.
- Holiday discount margin variance: a December worked example: December revenue up and gross profit down after holiday discounts, split into volume, mix, price and cost effects that tie exactly, with the discount break-even volume and an unexplained ledger difference kept visible.
- Variance analysis template (Excel): a free workbook with budget vs actual variance, variance %, favourable or unfavourable flags, an investigation rule and a price volume mix tab, with a worked example.
- Budget vs actual variance: formula, example and report: the variance and variance % formulas, favourable versus unfavourable by line type, which lines to investigate, and why a favourable cost variance can hide a problem.
- Price volume mix analysis example, step by step: three products worked through mix shares, price, volume and mix effects, with the Excel formulas and a check that ties to the revenue movement.
- How to audit sales commissions: a sales commission audit checklist and a worked quarter: bookings tied to the ledger, each rep recomputed from the plan, and overpayments and underpayments totalled separately.
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