Automate GL Checks and and Simplify Balance Sheet Reconciliation
Manual GL reviews often happen late in the cycle, leaving little time to resolve issues and increasing the risk of inaccurate or incomplete data reaching the balance sheet. Heads of Accounting choose Aico because it introduces continuous, automated control over the ledger, catching errors well before they complicate balance sheet reconciliation or delay trial balance sign-off.
Aico applies rule based checks across all entities and accounts, validating fields, spotting unexpected values and identifying duplicate or out of policy postings. Live ERP integration keeps checks running on the most up to date data, and automated alerts forward issues to the right owner immediately, so nothing carries through to the trial balance unresolved.
Because GL monitoring feeds directly into the reconciliation stage, this workflow connects naturally to Aico’s Account Reconciliation and Closing Task Manager, keeping the whole close in one place.
“Aico doesn’t overpromise or underdeliver.”
Identify missing data, anomalies and policy breaches before period end, reducing last-minute corrections and pressure on the team ahead of reconciliation.
Set flexible rules to monitor the fields, values and patterns that matter most. Adapt quickly to new risks, policies or business needs.
Pull GL data directly from your ERP and supplement with external files for complete visibility across accounts and entities.
Maintain clear ownership and a full audit trail for every flagged issue, giving reviewers and auditors easy access to documentation so evidence is ready when balance sheet reconciliation and audit review begin.
Sync GL data directly from your ERP or upload supplemental files. Aico centralises all information needed to run checks continuously.
Run configurable checks for missing fields, unexpected values, duplicates or out of policy activity. Flag exceptions in real time and route them to the right owner.
Track and correct issues as they arise. Monitor progress through dashboards and ensure period end reviews are smooth, predictable and audit ready.
Most balance sheet reconciliation checklists start with the trial balance, not the ledger. By the time a discrepancy is investigated, the underlying GL activity that caused it may be days or weeks old. Account Monitor moves the checklist earlier, so the answer to how to reconcile a balance sheet faster starts with ledger data that is already validated.
Missing or incomplete fields are flagged the moment they are posted, not discovered during reconciliation.
Duplicate and out of policy postings are caught automatically, removing common reconciliation blockers before they reach the trial balance.
Configurable thresholds highlight unexpected values by account and entity, so reviewers know where to focus first.
A full audit trail supports each flagged item, giving reconciliation teams the documentation they need for sign-off.
Other reconciliation tools are strong at the reconciliation step itself, matching transactions and managing sign-off. But Pacera’s Aico suite works a step earlier. Account Monitor keeps the ledger clean throughout the month, so whichever reconciliation approach a finance team uses, less time gets spent chasing exceptions and more time gets spent confirming they are already resolved.
That is the difference for Heads of Accounting managing close across multiple entities: a control layer that makes reconciliation quicker in the first place, not another point solution to manage on top of it. Pacera is trusted by more than 700 organisations managing complex, multi-entity structures.
A balance sheet reconciliation checklist typically covers missing data, duplicate postings, unexpected values and supporting documentation for every account. Account Monitor checks each of these continuously at the ledger level, so most checklist items are already resolved before the reconciliation team opens the account.
Continuous monitoring catches errors and anomalies as they are posted, rather than leaving them to surface during reconciliation. That means fewer exceptions, less time spent tracing discrepancies back to their source, and a trial balance that is closer to accurate before reconciliation even begins.
Account Monitor runs checks throughout the month, not only at period end, so issues affecting the trial balance are flagged and routed to an owner as soon as they occur. This continuous approach reduces the volume of last minute corrections that typically appear just before close.
Reconciling a balance sheet faster starts with reducing the number of exceptions reaching that stage. Automated GL checks validate fields, flag duplicates and highlight out of policy postings in real time, so the reconciliation team works from a cleaner data set and spends less time investigating issues that monitoring could have caught earlier.
Yes. Rule based checks apply consistently across all entities and accounts, giving Heads of Accounting a single, configurable view of ledger health group-wide rather than a patchwork of entity level spot checks.
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