Horizon Finance is real double-entry accounting inside the Horizon platform. Every invoice, bill, expense, and journal entry posts to a real general ledger; every report reads from that same ledger; and every number traces back to a document you can open. Nothing here is a black box — everything is deterministic and user-initiated. The system proposes, you decide, and anything posted can be reversed or voided through the same controlled lifecycle.
It’s built for a business that wants to run on it: invoice customers, pay vendors, reimburse the team, reconcile the bank, close the month, and read honest financial statements — with the controls (approvals, audit trail, period locking) usually reserved for much bigger systems.
Solo founders
The shortest path from work done to money in the bank. Apply a chart-of-accounts template, send a branded invoice, record the payment, and let the deterministic matcher tie your bank statement out. Tax time becomes a report you open, not a shoebox you excavate.
Small businesses
Controls without the enterprise overhead. The collections worklist keeps receivables moving, coding suggestions make bill entry fast and consistent, expenses flow submit → approve → reimburse, and approval chains let you delegate without losing control.
Growing finance teams
A real close and a real audit trail. The period-close checklist gives month-end owners and evidence, control accounts keep subledgers tied to the ledger, and the working trial balance gives your controller a defensible close.
Finance is organized into ten areas, each a section in your sidebar once the Finance module is active for your organization:
| Area | What you do there |
|---|---|
| General Ledger | Chart of accounts, journal entries, fiscal periods, and the period-close checklist |
| Accounts Receivable | Customers, sales orders, invoices with a full lifecycle, credit memos, cash receipts, recurring invoices, and the collections worklist |
| Accounts Payable | Vendors, bills with coding suggestions from your own history, bill credits, vendor payments, and recurring bills |
| Time & Expense | Expense reports, reimbursements, mileage, advances, and timesheets |
| Cash Management | Bank accounts, bank feeds, reconciliation with deterministic auto-match, and the cash application workbench |
| Fixed Assets | Asset records, straight-line depreciation that posts to the ledger, disposals, transfers, and lease records |
| Tax | Tax codes and rates, applied to invoice lines and calculated at posting |
| Approvals | Approval chains with separation of duties, and one inbox for everything waiting on you |
| Financial Reporting | Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, trial balance, working trial balance, and AR/AP aging |
| Setup | Payment terms, dimensions, fiscal calendars, currencies and FX rates, items, projects, and document numbering |
Finance is a Horizon module: when it’s active for your organization, the Finance group appears in your sidebar alongside the platform features you already use. Your customer list is shared with the rest of Horizon — win a deal and the customer is already there when it’s time to invoice.
The screens you work in today are also the surfaces Horizon’s intelligence will ride on — the same workbenches, with escalating intelligence. Coming to the same screens you already use: AI-suggested cash application and bank matching, automated collections sequences, bill extraction from documents, scheduled recurring generation, and a finance copilot for close acceleration and variance commentary. Deeper engines are on the way for growing complexity: multi-entity consolidation, revenue recognition, advanced depreciation methods, lease accounting schedules, a full tax engine, batch payment runs, and richer reporting.
Every suggestion will stay reviewable, and every automated action will stay reversible — that’s the standard the deterministic system sets today.
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