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Unit4 Financials delivers superior efficiency, consistency and accuracy to help your organisation thrive amid the Digital Revolution. With business models transforming, new regulations emerging and change coming faster than ever, Unit4 Financials helps you handle the most complex challenges with confidence.

Unit4 Financials provides the original unified-ledger, global accounting system that gives your organization a single, real-time version of the truth. Embrace the best-of-breed financial solution that integrates with your existing systems for total freedom of choice and ongoing business agility.

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Data in, Intelligence out

Many enterprise financial systems obscure your view of the business with modular ledger systems, static manual processes and limited reporting capabilities. Legacy accounting tools are not up to the challenges of today's businesses. You need real time insight to make informed decisions and stay in compliance with financial regulations.

Today's digital organisations require a unified solution with an intuitive user experience, global visibility and the power to address financial complexity. With Unit4 Financials, get data into the system more quickly with streamlined and automated finance processes. Get intelligence out to make the best decisions, based on real time visibility into your organisation’s financial position. Maintain the ability to change your financial structures at any time. Integrate seamlessly with your other key business systems. The result is that you can deliver better efficiency, consistency, and accuracy to support future business success.

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A better solution

Connect completely

24/7 accurate and compliant data during times of change

Grow efficiently

Unlimited scalability and shared service capabilities

Unify finance

A single, unified ledger with multi-dimensional accounting

Gain intelligence

Real time insight amid complexity using self service

Connect the dots for complete and compliant financial data

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Unit4 Financials provides complete visibility into your financial processes, even in the most diverse, complex or fast-changing enterprises. By eliminating batch processing, you gain immediate sight of what is happening without lag, sub-ledgers or manual reconciliation.
Financial software must also integrate seamlessly with other best-in-class applications your organization relies on. Our innovative and unique architecture provides unrivalled integration and interoperability in a federated approach using our web services. Accounting functionality, business logic and financial validation can be combined with all the specific operational applications you need, without hard coding. Add, change or upgrade key business systems without losing control of your finances and the connections between applications.
By integrating your systems with Unit4 Financials, you will enable end-to-end compliance across a wide range of regulatory regimes – Sarbanes-Oxley, multiple GAAPs and IFRS – to overcome the challenges of increasing regulatory pressures, and maintain compliance even in times of frequent legislation change or mergers.

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How it works

Unit4 Financials provides real-time financial visibility and control across your organisation’s people, processes and IT systems. This relies on streamlining the ways you get data into the system, and enhancing the value of the intelligence that comes out so you can take action.

  • Get data in

    Compliant Finance - 24/7 data accuracy and compliance

    Unlike disparate or modular ledger systems requiring batch synchronization and time-consuming manual reconciliations, Unit4 Financials provides immediate visibility into your finances with a single version of the truth. Eliminate time lags, sub-ledgers, reconciling, and manual processes. Add, keep, and change systems without losing control.

    Lean Finance - Ensure process efficiency

    Traditional systems are hampered by rigid, generic user interfaces, requiring consultants or IT to hard-code updates for process improvements. Unit4 Financials provides automation solutions for statement processing, reconciliation and overhead allocation. You are in charge of making changes to processes, applications and people via workflows from within the user interface itself.

     

  • Get intelligence out

    Intelligence Provider - Insight for informed decisions

    Some finance tools limit you with rigid, inflexible generic reporting templates or P&L statements that lack dimensional data. Unit4 Financials empowers you with operational, real time, transparent tools that integrate across the organization. A unified ledger means no reconciliation, so no waiting -- all the data is fresh and accurate across all your integrated systems.

    Business Partner - Provide self-service advice for future growth

    Finance often finds itself relying on a reporting team to process information, which leads to delays, generic report structures and information shortages. Instead, use a system that proves personalised, relevant data that you can access and customise yourself. Unit4 offers infinite ways to classify, measure, and analyse information, with data the way you want it. You can even use your browser for 100% of the reporting, so you don't affect your database.

Scalable services for efficient growth

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Process efficiency is all about automation and control. With Unit4 Financials, your organisation can streamline and automate processes, embed best-practices, improve business visibility, and maintain corporate governance at any scale. 
In times of growth, processes often become overextended, resulting in slower access to data and increasing manual overhead. Unit4 Financials helps you solve this problem with the ability to extend and automate financial controls across processes, applications and people via workflows. Automate most functions in processing and reconciliation, including a powerful automated overhead allocations engine and automated monthly reporting to cut audit costs.
Scale your processes without limits, including tapping into shared service capabilities to optimally and efficiently support double-digit growth ambitions or company expansion. 
Most importantly, maintain the power to make changes yourself, from within the application, to stay agile and efficient even during times of aggressive company growth.

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  • Accounting

    As the original single-ledger, global accounting solution, Unit4 Financials is a modern and multi-everything accounting system for even the most diverse or complex enterprise requirements.

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  • Budgeting, planning & forecasting

    Unit4 Financials combines the flexibility of financial modeling with the familiarity and convenience of a standard spreadsheet to streamline the seeding, preparation, fine-tuning, and production of budgets.

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  • Spend management

    Unit4 Financials’ end-to-end spend management helps establish controls and consolidate purchasing activity, and enables you to harness the full buying power of the organisation.

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  • Reporting & analysis

    Unit4 Financials serves as the foundation of a robust, flexible information model. A range of reporting tools help multiple users report on, model and analyse your business with data and interfaces customised to their role in the organisation.

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  • Process & control automation

    An integrated workflow and a powerful control management framework ties other systems, manual processes, and authorisations into a single, visible, and auditable process flow.

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  • Integration & web services

    IT architecture uses techniques such as web services and XML to provide secure, real-time integration with your other operational systems.

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  • Interoperability

    Companies need great operational applications and great financial systems, without compromise. Best-in-class interoperability is a fundamental capability of Unit4 Financials.

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  • Multi-platform & multi-language

    Unit4 Financials integrates with other applications without imposing a particular technology or architecture. It also enables simultaneous multi-lingual access to the same, single finance system.

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A unified ledger with multi-dimensional accounting

The best financial systems provide can turn complexity into simplicity. Unit4 Financials’ single financial model allows changes to be made efficiently in one, real-time single ledger system, without requiring reconciliation, so it provides financial information that is always in balance.

At the same time, the system’s multi-dimensional structure enables infinite ways to classify, measure and analyze data, regardless of complexity, for the best possible visibility. Now, each line of the business can monitor profitability the way it needs to. Multi-national operations with complex local regulations can capture transactions in multiple currencies, in multiple countries, in multiple languages. With this power, you can both meet specific local accounting requirements and maintain global consistency, visibility and control.

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Experiences

  • “I know that Unit4 Financials has the rich financial management capabilities we require, combined with an ability to integrate with the other line of business applications that we use within Nando’s. It can be easily scaled as our business grows and helps us to make more informed decisions based on accurate and consistent financial and wider management information.”

    - Finance Project Manager, Nando's

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  • “We recognised that to meet the demands invoice processing placed on the team, we’d need to add significantly to headcount. Rather than just increase headcount to cope, we wanted a better way of capturing and approving invoices. We also wanted to eliminate other types of paper handling and make cost savings and productivity gains.”

    Richard Shoteh, Finance Systems & Compliance Manager, Screwfix

  • “[Unit4] has an excellent and proven track record in the market.”

    - Program Manager, Denplan

  • "We believe that Unit4 has delivered an easy-to-use product that has demonstrated its ability to grow and adapt with our business."

    - P2P Stream Lead at Avis Europe

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Gain insight amid complexity

Building on one unified ledger, Unit4 Financials provides unique real time financial intelligence. The platform gives users infinite ways to classify, measure and analyse data. Full online and in-memory reporting and Flexi-Fields allow any financial data to be captured and analysed. Users can pull data to view via a web browser without putting it into your database. 

Such tools are the most powerful when users can customise the system to meet their needs. With Unit4 Financials, each user can set up a personalised portal, dashboard and system layout, so their interface and processes match exactly how they want to use the system. 

The result is a toolset with full self-service capabilities that helps users identify opportunities and make themselves a valuable partner to the business, mapping out potential paths and scenarios for the organisation to succeed in the future.

Create your own financial perspective

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Bigger picture thinking: that’s what every finance department needs. Unit4 Financials delivers more perspective than ever before, thanks to its unique capabilities, intuitive interface, mobile functionality, and expanded tools such as Analyzer and Flexi-Fields.
If you aren't using Unit4 Financials Version 13, you are missing out on key business capabilities:
  • Flexi-Fields - a powerful new set of capabilities that amplifies the capacity of Unit4 Financials
  • Analyzer - to present your data in visually appealing ways that help you to quickly connect the dots, highlight issues, and take action
  • The People Platform - with a comprehensive new user experience that's faster, easier and more intuitive to use than ever before

Create your own financial perspective

Cloud at your Speed

Enabling your team to fully control your move to the cloud securely - at the speed you require.

  • Flexible: you choose if and when to transition your solutions to the cloud, with minimal effort.
  • Standardised: Easy to implement and use, with low implementation costs, and vastly reducing the time to value. 
  • Ready to use: Access your software anywhere, anytime, with any device without delay.
  • Business continuity: Continually benefit from the latest innovations with our cloud options - without extra configuration or extensive testing.

With Cloud at your Speed, you have full control of what goes on the cloud, and when it gets there.

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Here is a selection of our case studies and for further information please complete the form opposite to receive our brochure and white papers for Unit4 Financials.

Case studies

  • Retail – Jordan’s Furniture

    Unit4 Financials cloud deployment solution provides retail market leader with a new finance system that sets foundation for growth.

  • Retail – Reitan Convenience

    Unit4 Financials’ high level of systems integration support has significantly reduced Reitan’s administrative burden, enabling it to focus on increasing market share.

  • Shared Services – Avis Europe

    Avis Europe has chosen Unit4 for the core financial accounting solution used in its shared services center in Budapest to serve operations across Europe.

  • Transport & Logistics – Pacific International Lines

    Unit4 Financials provides key performance data instantly across the entire organization, so the company can optimize profitability and competitiveness.