An accountant who lives in the ledger and the working papers.

Built for partners and managers in business services, public practice, and in-house finance. Halo classifies the bank, reconciles the ledger, prepares the statutory accounts, and assembles the board pack, with every figure tied back to the cell, the bank line, and the source document.

Video pending · A period end close, top to tail
Acme Group Pty Ltd · ABN 11 222 333 444 · FYE 30/06 · Accountant: in-house

What month end actually looks like inside an Australian firm.

A bank export with a thousand transactions and no rules. A trial balance that does not agree the GST control account. A signed prior year that nobody has mapped to this year's chart. The work is real. The slow parts are file gathering, classification, and the same five reconciliations every month, on every client.

  1. 01 Bank feed lands, half coded
    A few rules catch the regulars. The rest is a human reading a memo line and making a judgement, often the same judgement they made last month.
  2. 02 Reconciliations are run by hand
    Bank, GST, payroll clearing, intercompany. Most agree on the second pass. A few never agree without a journal nobody wants to write.
  3. 03 A trial balance gets sliced into statements
    By a graduate, into a Word template, with last year's notes that may or may not still apply to this year's accounts.
  4. 04 The board pack is assembled in the last forty hours
    Variance commentary, cash position, P and L by segment, all stitched together against a deadline that does not move.

The repetitive work, done with citations.

Drop the month's bank feed and the source documents into a Job. Halo classifies, reconciles, posts the journals, and prepares the working file, with every transaction citing the rule it matched and the source it came from. Your team reviews the exceptions and signs the close.

See it on your close
Video pending · Month end close
Acme Corp Pty Ltd · GL · FY2026

Tooling built for the accounting workflow specifically.

Bookkeeping and classification

Bank, credit card, and GL transactions classified against your chart and your firm's rules. Every decision shows the rule it matched, the confidence, and a single click to override. Halo learns the override and applies it next time.

Video pending · Bookkeeping and classification

Bank reconciliation

Bank feed against the ledger, transaction by transaction. Halo matches the obvious, surfaces the breaks, and proposes the journal where one is needed. Breaks remain breaks until you clear them.

Video pending · Bank reconciliation

Period end close

Month end, quarter end, year end. Accruals, prepayments, depreciation, FX, intercompany, GST control, payroll clearing. A checklist that runs itself and a working file that the partner can read.

Video pending · Period end close

Financial statement preparation

Primary statements built deterministically from the trial balance, comparatives lifted from the signed prior year, notes drafted against your firm's template. Every figure cites the cell it came from.

Video pending · Financial statement preparation

Payroll review

Pay run totals against the prior period, employee movement deltas, PAYG and super accruals, super guarantee compliance. Variances explained, not just listed.

Video pending · Payroll review

Board pack and management reporting

P and L by segment, balance sheet movements, cash position, KPI tiles, variance commentary in your house style. Drafted from the close, ready for the partner to review.

Video pending · Board pack and management reporting

Bring a client and watch Halo close the month.

A live session on your own ledger and your own working papers, with your team in the room. Forty minutes.