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Paper receipts to five-day closes
A five-outlet homeware chain closing its books a quarter late — estimating stock and carrying sales-tax risk across three states.
The starting point
Every outlet operated separate tills, card terminals, and workbooks. At year-end the owners learned two shops had charged incorrect sales-tax percentages for fourteen months — fines accruing meanwhile.
What we did
We merged all five outlets onto a single account structure, automated daily takings feeds, counted stock against the ledger, and submitted voluntary disclosures shrinking the sales-tax fines to a sliver of the original assessments.
Outcomes
- Month-end down from 90 days to 5 — sustained ever since
- Sales-tax returns mended in three states with fines trimmed
- Per-store earnings summaries the owners genuinely open