Consolidated reporting across entities. With the eliminations shown.
Group the related QuickBooks Online companies, let Claude check the chart of accounts for what should be eliminated, add your own, and run the consolidation against live data from every entity at once.
What this means for your firm.
Numbers Game consolidates related QuickBooks Online entities into one report. You group the companies, Claude runs a chart-of-accounts check to identify the accounts that should be eliminated, your firm reviews that and can add its own accounts to eliminate or consider, and those additions become standing rules on the parent company. The consolidation runs from a prompt and pulls live data from every related entity into a single report.
Four steps, and a person sees the middle two.
1. Group the entities
Loop the related QuickBooks Online companies together under a parent. The structure follows how your firm actually manages the client rather than a hierarchy inferred from company names.
2. Claude checks the chart of accounts
A chart-of-accounts check identifies the accounts that should be eliminated in consolidation: the intercompany balances, the accounts that exist on both sides of a relationship between group members.
3. You add what it could not know
Your firm adds any accounts that should be eliminated or otherwise considered. Those additions become a rule on the parent company, so next month’s consolidation starts from them instead of from a blank check.
4. Run it from a prompt
Ask for the consolidation in Claude. Live data is pulled from every related entity at once and returned as one report, rather than exported per company and stitched together in a spreadsheet.
The elimination step is visible, and that is the point.
Most consolidation tools do the eliminations and hand you a number. That is fine right up until an auditor, a buyer, or a board member asks why a balance moved, and the honest answer is that the software decided.
Here, the chart-of-accounts check proposes. Your firm reads which accounts it identified, adds what it missed, and the consolidation runs on a set of eliminations somebody named. When the question comes, you can answer it from the rules on the parent rather than from a vendor’s support queue.
It is the same principle as everywhere else in the product: the work compresses, the judgment stays with the accountant, and what the accountant decided is written down.
You teach it once per group, not once per close.
The accounts your firm adds are stored against the parent company, so they persist. The first consolidation for a group is the one that takes thought: read the chart-of-accounts check, decide what else belongs, save it.
After that the rules are the group’s standing treatment. A new intercompany account appearing later shows up in the check and gets added the same way, which means the effort curve falls off sharply after the first run.
One report, read from every entity at the moment you ask.
The consolidation pulls from the connected QuickBooks Online companies directly. There is no export step, no intermediate spreadsheet, and therefore no version of the group numbers that can drift away from the entity books.
Every figure traces back to the entity it came from, which is what a reviewer actually needs. The group view sits alongside the source companies rather than replacing them: QuickBooks Online remains the system of record for each entity.
Three entities, two hours.
Nicole Jordan-Dahdal runs the fractional CFO and M&A practice PrismEdge, where every engagement’s books sat behind a separate QuickBooks login. “A recent opex audit across three entities would normally have taken me a few days. With Numbers Game it was done in under two hours.”
The detail worth noticing is which time was saved. She did not automate her judgment. She automated retrieval across entities, and the hours that used to go into assembling numbers now go into reading them. The full write-up is here.
The details firms ask first.
Can Numbers Game consolidate multiple QuickBooks Online companies?
Yes. You group the related companies under a parent, Claude runs a chart-of-accounts check to identify the accounts that should be eliminated, your firm reviews and adds any it missed, and the consolidation runs against live data pulled from every entity at once.
How does it decide what to eliminate?
A chart-of-accounts check proposes the accounts that should be eliminated in consolidation. It proposes rather than decides: your firm reviews the list and adds anything specific to that group, so the eliminations are a set somebody named rather than a vendor’s black box.
Do we have to redo the eliminations every month?
No. The accounts your firm adds become a rule on the parent company and persist, so later consolidations start from them. New intercompany accounts surface in the chart-of-accounts check and are added the same way.
Is the report built from exports?
No. It pulls live data from every related QuickBooks Online entity at the moment you ask and returns one report, so the group view cannot drift away from the entity books.
Does the consolidated view replace the entity books?
No. QuickBooks Online remains the system of record for each entity. The group report sits alongside the source companies and every figure traces back to the entity it came from.
How do we run it?
From a prompt in Claude, against the group you have set up. There is no separate consolidation console to learn, and the same connection that runs your close runs the consolidation.
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