This page is half a comparison, on purpose. It states the job a firm hires accounting workflow management to do, and what Accute does against that job. It quotes no Financial Cents pricing and describes no Financial Cents features, because we have not run their software through a firm season and would be guessing in public if we did.
Accounting workflow management
See every job in the firm, its status and its deadline, on one screen, and know which ones are about to slip.
That is the job. A firm shortlisting Financial Cents is shopping for it, and so is a firm shortlisting Accute. Everything below is what Accute does about it, and how you can check each answer rather than take it.
Three, answered in full, in the words we would use to a partner on a call.
Accute is the alternative we can speak for. Accute gives that visibility and then acts on it. Recurring work is generated on a schedule, routed by rule and escalated as it ages, and where a job is blocked the reason sits on the record, usually a document request the client has not answered yet, which the portal is already chasing without anyone drafting the reminder.
It depends on whether the firm expects to add services. Accute is one product inside the FinACEverse suite, and the suite shares one identity, one client portal and one audit trail. A firm that later adds tax filing, audit automation or a bookkeeping close is not onboarding a second vendor, reconciling a second client list, or asking its clients to learn a second login.
No. We have not run Financial Cents through a firm season, so we publish no pricing for it and make no claims about its features. This page states the job firms hire accounting workflow management to do and what Accute does against that job, which is the only half we can be held to. For the other half, read what Financial Cents publishes itself.
Every line here describes a mechanism that exists in the product today, stated precisely enough to be wrong. Hold us to each one in a trial.
Capacity is computed per person over a week or a month: active assignments, active tasks and allocated percentage, so overload is visible before the deadline is.
Allocation is recorded per person per day as a percentage, and a clash between two allocations is surfaced as a conflict rather than discovered when someone misses a date.
A scheduler sweeps every fifteen minutes and fires seven, three and one day before a due date, and again once it passes, with a day-long window that stops the same item alerting twice.
Follow-ups run themselves across email, SMS and in-app notification, escalate after a set number of rounds, and stop the moment the underlying task completes.
A blocked round carries the reason it is blocked and, where the block is timed, the moment it clears itself, so blocked is a state with a cause rather than a colour on a board.
Questions decide this category. Put every one of them to Financial Cents, to Accute, and to anything else on your shortlist, and buy whichever answers them on a screen rather than in a sales deck.
The rules every page in this family is written under, printed here because you may never see the index.
Plans change, currencies differ and term discounts move the number. A price we captured once and never re-checked would be presented as current while being wrong, so we publish none. Every vendor below publishes its own pricing, and that page is the only one worth reading.
We have not run their software through a firm season, so we are not in a position to say what it does or does not do. Anyone who tells you otherwise about a product they have not used is guessing in public.
What each entry states is the job a firm hires the category to do, and what Accute does against that job. That half is ours, it is testable in a trial, and you should hold us to it.
So: no Financial Cents pricing on this page, and nothing about what Financial Cents does or does not do. Financial Cents publishes both, and that is the page worth reading for their half.
Same contract, same shape, a different product on the other side of it.
Run one real engagement through Accute, on your own client list, and hold every answer on this page against what you see. We will set that up with you rather than hand you a trial and hope.
Accounts and plans live in the FinACEverse gateway, so nothing on this page asks you for a card.