CG Accounting connects everyday business documents to proper double-entry records, payment planning, banking evidence, VAT and financial reporting — with assistance where it saves work and controls where they matter.
Product detail
The aim is not to make you work like an accountant. It is to make normal business actions create a stronger accounting record, with planning, bank evidence, documents, allocations, journals and reporting kept connected.
Create the commercial document first, then let the accounting follow from the transaction.
Record what the business owes, plan what should be paid and keep the final payment and correction workflow visible.
Prepare supplier-payment work without turning a planning decision into a posted transaction too early.
Set up recurring commercial work while keeping the final document under review before anything is issued or posted.
The Banking Assistant helps interpret imported bank activity without turning the bank feed into an uncontrolled posting engine.
Reduce repetitive bank classification work by reusing patterns that were previously approved, without turning a rule match into automatic accounting.
Bring accounting exceptions and follow-up work into one place without creating another source of truth.
Use VAT setup and transaction-level VAT treatment while keeping the tax effect connected to the accounting record.
Operational screens remain approachable while the accounting layer enforces balanced posting and traceable correction.
See the financial result, then drill down instead of treating a report as a dead-end PDF.
Pair the recorded cash position with a read-only short-term outlook so upcoming movement is visible without rewriting the accounting record.
Accounting changes should leave evidence. Controls protect sealed history while approval and close processes remain traceable.
Frequently asked questions
Here are the practical questions businesses usually ask before starting with CG Accounting.
CG Accounting is built for small and growing businesses that want a clear day-to-day workflow while keeping proper double-entry accounting records underneath.
No. Quotes and invoices are part of the workflow, but the system also handles customer receipts, supplier bills and payments, payment planning, banking assistance and reconciliation, VAT accounting, journals, financial periods, credit notes and supplier credits, recurring transaction drafts, action management and financial reports.
The Daily Action Centre brings accounting work that needs attention into one place, such as overdue customer balances, unreconciled banking, pending approvals, VAT-related items, period-close issues and other exceptions. It is an attention layer over the accounting records rather than a second set of books.
Yes. Repeat sales invoices and supplier bills can be scheduled on recurring cycles. When the next transaction becomes due, CG Accounting prepares an editable draft for review. It does not silently issue or post the transaction for you.
Payment Planning lets you prepare and review intended supplier payments before accounting is posted. An approved plan can hand off into an editable payment draft, but planning alone does not post, allocate or reconcile anything.
The Banking Assistant works from imported bank evidence to help review possible matches and prepare safe receipt or payment draft handoffs. The bank record remains evidence, while posting, allocation and final reconciliation remain controlled accounting actions.
Bank Rules reduce repetitive classification work by reusing approved patterns from earlier banking decisions. A matching rule can suggest a classification or treatment for review, but it does not silently post, allocate or reconcile accounting simply because a rule matched.
CG Accounting provides a read-only cash position and short-term outlook across Today, 7, 30, 60 and 90 days using recorded cash plus expected inflows and outflows from authoritative accounting and planning records. Unreconciled bank evidence does not silently rewrite the forecast or the books.
Yes. Bank transactions can be imported, duplicate imports are blocked, and reconciliation is assisted with explicit approval so the bank evidence remains connected to the accounting record.
Posted accounting history is protected. Corrections use controlled reversals or follow-on accounting actions so the original history is not silently rewritten.
Yes. The current accounting core includes a trial balance, income statement, balance sheet, cash-flow reporting, general-ledger drill-through and a read-only short-term cash position and forecast so you can move from recorded results to near-term visibility.
Yes. Sales credit notes and supplier credits are part of the confirmed accounting workflow and retain their links to the underlying accounting history.
Yes. The current product supports VAT setup and transaction-level VAT accounting across sales invoices, supplier bills, sales credit notes and supplier credits. Automatic SARS submission or eFiling is not part of the current public feature promise.
Choose Starter, Business or Professional and monthly or annual billing. CG Accounting creates the trial organisation and sends a secure activation email so the owner can choose a password. No payment is collected when the trial is created.
Yes. You can get started if you are starting fresh, using spreadsheets, working through an accountant or bookkeeper, or moving from another system. Opening balances and the migration approach are reviewed during onboarding rather than assumed automatically.
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Compare Starter, Business and Professional, then create a 30-day trial securely in the CG Accounting application. Assisted onboarding is available if you want help choosing or migrating.
