Different trades, different legacy systems, same underlying failure: the accounting system could not answer job-level questions, so the answers were reconstructed by hand somewhere else.
GEAC Star Builder, Microsoft Dynamics SL, QuickBooks with paper time tracking, and stacks of point tools. None of these companies were starting from nothing; all of them were being held back by what they had.
Every one of them had a gap between where work happened and where it got recorded. Closing that gap by capturing time and production at the source did more for reporting accuracy than any report ever did.
GCATS grew past 300 employees and more large GC volume with no additional finance or accounting staff. That is the outcome worth measuring, and it is the one buyers rarely think to ask about.
