--- title: "Multi-entity accounting in one cloud ledger" description: "Why we built Ledgeriano, a multi-entity cloud accounting platform for company groups, accounting firms and developers, plus our principles and editorial policy." canonical: https://ledgeriano.com/about language: en publisher: "Ledgeriano" updated: 2026-11-05 --- # Multi-entity accounting in one cloud ledger > Why we built Ledgeriano, a multi-entity cloud accounting platform for company groups, accounting firms and developers, plus our principles and editorial policy. Ledgeriano is a multi-entity cloud accounting platform. One account keeps the books of many independent businesses, each with its own base currency, fiscal years, chart of accounts and team, and connects them with intercompany workflows and a REST API. - **5**: chart-of-accounts templates, from IFRS and US GAAP to GCC VAT and Zakat - **9**: built-in financial reports, from the journal book to the cash flow statement - **1**: REST API for every business you create ## Why we built a multi-entity accounting platform We want one team to run the books of many companies without typing the same transaction twice. That is the whole mission, and most of the product follows from it. Groups of companies live with a quiet, expensive problem. A sale from one sister company is a purchase for another, so someone records it in the first ledger, then opens a second file or spreadsheet and records the mirror entry by hand. Over a year that means hundreds of duplicate entries, balances that stop agreeing, and long evenings before every closing. Desktop accounting software usually treats each company as a separate file on a separate machine. Spreadsheets have no double-entry checks at all. We built Ledgeriano so that every business is its own clean ledger, one login moves between them, and a posted entry in one company can create the matching entry in another through a workflow you control. ## Built for teams that keep more than one set of books If you only ever run one small company, a simpler tool may do. Ledgeriano earns its place when the number of ledgers grows. ### Groups of companies and holdings Sister companies, branches and subsidiaries, each with its own base currency and fiscal years. Intercompany sales and purchases are recorded once and mirrored automatically. See the [multi-entity accounting guide](https://ledgeriano.com/guides/multi-entity-accounting). ### Accounting firms and bookkeepers Keep every client in a separate business under one login, invite client staff with limited roles, and review each change in the audit trail. Explore the [product features](https://ledgeriano.com/features). ### Developers and ERP teams Post journal entries from an online store, ERP or billing system through the REST API, with idempotency keys and signed webhooks. Start with the [developer overview](https://ledgeriano.com/developers). ### Businesses that work across borders A Dubai holding, a French subsidiary and a US trading company can each keep books under their own standard: GCC IFRS with VAT and Zakat, a European PCG chart or US GAAP, with entries in any active currency. Read about [supported standards](https://ledgeriano.com/standards). ## What we will not compromise on Accounting software handles other people's money and obligations. These rules shape every feature we ship. ### Every entry balances An entry with debits that differ from credits cannot be saved. The trial balance is a consequence of the data, not a report we hope will add up. ### Posted entries stay put Posted entries are not edited or deleted. You correct them with a reversal entry, so the history of the books remains readable, and lock dates protect closed periods. An owner can opt in to returning entries to draft; each time it happens, the audit trail records it. ### Costs you can read Usage is measured in credits, and the credit cost of every action is listed in the app before you use it. There is no subscription to cancel. ### Your data is reachable The bookkeeping you do inside a business, from accounts and entries to reports, is also open to your systems through the API. Reports export to CSV, and your accounting data belongs to you, as our [terms](https://ledgeriano.com/terms) state. ## Accounting rules first, screens second - Features start from the accounting rule they must satisfy, and only then become screens and API endpoints. Product specialists and accounting specialists review each change together. - A few examples of rules the software enforces rather than leaves to good intentions: - A closing entry moves income and expense balances through the income summary into retained earnings, then the next year opens with an automatic opening entry. - A 2, 4 or 6 column trial balance must agree with the general ledger it is built from. - An intercompany workflow cannot trigger itself in a loop, and you can dry-run it before it touches real books. - Deleting a business revokes its active API keys immediately. ## How we write and review our guides Our [accounting guides](https://ledgeriano.com/guides) exist to answer real questions from accountants, finance leads and developers. Here is how we keep them accurate. Found a mistake? Email [support@ledgeriano.com](mailto:support@ledgeriano.com?subject=Guide%20correction) with the page address and the correction. We review every report and update the page when the correction holds. - Each guide is written and reviewed by people with accounting and product experience before it is published. - Every guide shows the date it was published and the date of its last update, so you can judge how current it is. - Worked examples use concrete numbers, and we check them against how Ledgeriano actually behaves. - When the product or a rule changes, we revise the guide and move its update date. - Guides explain general practice. They are not tax or legal advice for your jurisdiction, and we say so where it matters.