Indi Tatla has run a multi-entity business across several jurisdictions, and for her the consolidation is the standout: eliminations and parent and subsidiary structures handled in one place, which very few tools have done well.
John Toon thinks three-way should be the minimum for any forecasting tool. What appeals to him is the chat side, trying a change in seasonality or scope without breaking the model you've got, and the group forecasting. Until now multi-entity has meant forecasting each company on its own and bashing the lot together in Excel. He still thinks multi-entity is underserved, and that integration gets hard once a group runs several ledgers.
From episode 6.38 of Digi-Tools in Accrual World, with Indi Tatla, John Toon and Ryan Pearcy.
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