Tandem Family of Companies (TFC) assists business owners with a full suite of customized, hightouch human resources (HR), payroll, benefits, and risk management solutions. The company consists of five business units comprised of 21 different entities, and supports over 500 small and mid-sized businesses. Previously, Tandem’s finance team was using a hodgepodge of 22 instances of QuickBooks along with other systems, and spending 20 to 30 days each month on manual reconciliation work. When it came time to close the books, the team created Excel spreadsheets for each entity and then combined them into a master spreadsheet, which had 56 tabs and ran about three alphabets wide. In the summer, TFC would hire an intern to comb through the chart of accounts to ensure consistency.
