Why Every Accountant Who Ends Up in Excel Needs TreeBeam

Written By Gretchen Kent

Accounting teams today rely on a wide range of GL systems—QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Intacct, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP Business One, Multiview, Acumatica, Yardi, and more. Each one has its strengths. Each one helps manage financial accounts, house transactional data, and support day-to-day operations.

And yet… almost every accountant still ends up in the same place: Excel.

No matter how powerful the ERP or GL system is, trial balance work—adjustments, reconciliations, consolidations, eliminations, and reporting prep—still finds its way into spreadsheets.

That’s exactly where TreeBeam fits in.

TreeBeam isn’t here to replace your GL system. It’s here to support the part of your workflow your system doesn’t handle—the messy, manual, error-prone part that accountants know all too well. If your month-end close or consolidation process regularly spills into Excel, TreeBeam is the modern solution designed specifically for you.

Why Accountants Still End Up in Excel

ERP systems are built to store data, enforce rules, and track transactions. They’re not built for trial balance manipulation, multi-column adjusting entries, or complex consolidations. That’s why so many teams, even on enterprise systems, pull everything into a spreadsheet to finish the job.

Common reasons include:

  • Needing a flexible space to organize adjusting entries

  • Handling multiple versions of the trial balance (book, audit, tax, internal reporting)

  • Managing multi-entity consolidations

  • Eliminating intercompany transactions manually

  • Preparing consolidated financial statements

  • Creating entity-level and roll-up views for leadership

Excel provides flexibility—but not structure. That’s where errors creep in, versions get lost, and the month-end close drags on far longer than it should.

TreeBeam bridges that gap.

TreeBeam Works With Any GL System

TreeBeam is intentionally GL-agnostic. It doesn't matter what system you use—if you can export a trial balance into Excel, you can use TreeBeam.

TreeBeam seamlessly supports trial balances exported from:

  • QuickBooks (Desktop + Online)

  • Xero

  • Sage Intacct

  • Oracle NetSuite

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Business Central, GP, NAV)

  • SAP Business One

  • Yardi

  • Multiview ERP

  • Acumatica

  • Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

  • And virtually any other GL system

Because TreeBeam relies on simple Excel imports and exports, there’s no integration setup, no IT lift, and no configuration committee needed. You’re up and running in minutes—not weeks.

Your GL remains the system of record. TreeBeam becomes your workspace for:

  • Adjustments

  • Consolidations

  • Entity roll-ups

  • COA mappings

  • Reporting prep

  • Audit support

And when you're done? Export your cleaned, consolidated trial balance right back to Excel or into your reporting tools.

TreeBeam Is Built for the Part of the Close Your ERP Doesn’t Handle

Accounting teams need flexibility and control. Before TreeBeam, you had to choose one or the other:

  • ERP = control but limited flexibility

  • Excel = flexibility but limited control and high risk

TreeBeam gives you both. It provides the structure of financial statement software with the spreadsheet-friendly feel accountants rely on.

With TreeBeam, you get:

1. A cleaner way to manage adjusting entries

Track book, audit, tax, or management adjustments in separate columns—without version confusion.

2. A controlled workspace for trial balances

No broken formulas. No locked tabs. No hidden rows. Just clean, reliable numbers.

3. Simple, repeatable multi-entity consolidations

TreeBeam handles mappings, eliminations, and roll-ups cleanly—no need for giant Excel files stitched together with VLOOKUP.

4. Audit-ready transparency

Every adjustment is traceable. Every number has a home. Auditors get visibility without digging through spreadsheets.

5. Better collaboration across your accounting team

With all trial balance work stored in one place, everyone works from the same source of truth.

Where TreeBeam Fits Into Your Current Workflow

TreeBeam slides perfectly into the middle of your process—between your GL system and your reporting tools.

Here's the flow:

1. Export your trial balance from your GL

Any system. Any structure. Any format that Excel can read.

2. Import it to TreeBeam

Organize accounts, add adjustments, review balances, and prepare your consolidated data.

3. Use TreeBeam for the "messy middle"

  • Adjustments

  • Consolidations

  • Eliminations

  • Account groupings

  • Reporting prep

4. Export clean results to Excel

Use them for reporting, dashboards, presentations, and audit packages.

TreeBeam enhances your close process without replacing anything you already use.

The Bottom Line

If your GL system handles operations but not the trial balance work that comes after, TreeBeam is the tool that fills the gap. It gives accountants the structure Excel lacks, the flexibility ERPs lack, and the speed every close deserves.

TreeBeam fits into any workflow.
It works with any GL system.
And if you end up in spreadsheets every month-end, it was built for you.

Gretchen Kent
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