F&B chain accounting, multi-entity
Acumatica covers general ledger, receivables, payables, banking, fixed assets and multi-company consolidation. With S4’s VN Financial Localization, books and statements under Circular 99/2025/TT-BTC are produced directly from Acumatica data.
Consolidated finance is a precondition for growth and fundraising
Investors, banks and auditors all need transparent consolidated reporting. Multi-entity finance on one system lets the group close fast and be ready for any due diligence.
Multi-entity
Each company and brand is a unit; intercompany transactions post on both sides.
Group consolidation
Consolidated reports without merging spreadsheets.
Audit-ready
Audit trails, period locks and Circular 99 reporting.
Multi-entity and consolidation: the biggest difference from fragmented software
Large F&B chains rarely have one legal entity: a brand-holding company, a central kitchen company, and companies running stores or franchises. With separate accounting software per company, every intercompany transaction is entered twice and consolidated reports are assembled in Excel. Acumatica manages an unlimited number of related companies in one system.
Central kitchen
Produces semi-finished goods and transfers them to stores owned by another company.
Intercompany transaction
The transfer creates the intercompany transaction, with due-to and due-from entries on both sides.
Store operating companies
Food cost, intercompany payables and P&L land in the right entity.
Consolidated reporting
Intercompany transactions eliminated automatically, with drill-down from group to each company.
| Process | Common approach with separate software per company | Acumatica F&B Edition by S4 |
|---|---|---|
| Legal entities | One database per company; a new company means another system | Unlimited related companies in one system, sharing chart of accounts, periods and currencies where needed |
| Intercompany transactions | Entered twice in two companies, intercompany balances matched at month-end | Due-to and due-from entries created automatically; a purchase order in one company can create a sales order in another |
| Transfers between entities | Manual issue notes, receipts and internal invoices | Transfers between warehouses of different companies generate intercompany transactions, keeping each company’s reports accurate |
| Centralized purchasing and payments | Each company buys and pays on its own | One company buys or pays on behalf of others while costs and profit stay with the originating company; shared costs allocated by rules |
| Consolidated reporting | Export each company to Excel, merge and eliminate by hand | Consolidated statements with automatic intercompany elimination and drill-down from group to company |
| Multi-currency | Manual conversion when reporting to a foreign parent | Exchange rates and automatic currency conversion with consistent reporting across entities |
| Control | Permissions per database | Permissions by company and branch; period close per company; audit trails |
Multi-entity capabilities as described by Acumatica: Acumatica Inter-Company Accounting. The “common approach” column describes the situation where each entity runs its own accounting software.
One source of numbers for management and compliance
Data recorded once serves both management reporting and Vietnamese statements.
General ledger, receivables, payables, banking
The chain’s financial transactions are recorded in Acumatica, linked directly to sales, purchasing and inventory.
- Multi-dimensional ledger by store
- Receivables and payables
- Bank reconciliation
Chart of accounts and books under Circular 99
VN Financial Localization provides the Circular 99/2025/TT-BTC chart of accounts, contra-account split, traceable period-end closing, the general journal and trial balance.
- Circular 99 chart of accounts
- General journal and subledgers
- Traceable period-end closing
B01, B02, B03-DN from Acumatica data
Balance sheet, income statement and cash flow in Vietnamese formats are produced directly from ERP data.
- B01-DN, B02-DN, B03-DN
- No export to other software
- Bilingual Vietnamese - English
Consolidate entities and brands
Chains with several companies or brands run on one system with intercompany transactions and consolidated reporting.
- Multiple entities in one system
- Intercompany transactions
- Consolidated reports
What Financials & multi-company includes
General ledger
Multi-dimensional by store, region
Receivables
Corporate customers, delivery partners
Payables
Suppliers, three-way match
Banking
Transaction reconciliation
Fixed assets
Store and kitchen equipment
Circular 99
Accounts, books, statements
B01, B02, B03-DN
Vietnamese statements
Multi-company
Entity consolidation
Bilingual
Vietnamese - English reports
Other features
Recipes & Backflush
Portions by item, size and topping · Deduct ingredients from POS sales
Barcode stock counts
Scan printed manufacturer codes · Phone or handheld scanner
Warehouse management
Warehouse, central kitchen, stores · With in-transit tracking
Central kitchen & MRP
Semi-finished goods in the kitchen · Production and purchase suggestions
Purchasing & suppliers
From stores and central kitchen · Agreed prices by supplier
Store P&L & dashboards
Daily, weekly, monthly · CEO, COO, area managers
Budgeting & cost control
Revenue and expenses · Variances by store
POS integration
Pre-integrated with Acumatica · n8n integration workflows
Zalo notifications
Triggered from Acumatica · No waiting on email
Shift & part-time payroll
Day, night, holidays · Social, health, unemployment
Vietnamese interface
Main business screens · Vietnamese or English
F&B companies worldwide that chose Acumatica
The results below are published by Acumatica in its customer stories. S4 Consulting was not involved in these projects; in Vietnam, S4 implemented Acumatica for An Nhien Cafe.
BLD Brands
- 8 charts of accounts managed in one system
- Month-end close reduced to 5 days
- About 90,000 invoices a year no longer keyed manually
Read the customer story ↗
A Priori Specialty Foods
- 3.5 hours a week saved by fulfillment
- 6 hours a week saved by sales
- 30% less time processing price changes
Read the customer story ↗
See it in Acumatica
Acumatica screenshots with demo data.
Acumatica F&B Edition by S4 brochure
Six pages for leadership: four capability layers, solutions by chain model and franchising, Vietnam compliance, the xRP platform, the An Nhien Cafe story and the Fast & Saving roadmap.
Frequently asked questions
Can Acumatica produce Circular 99 statements?
Can several companies run on one system?
Does accounting re-enter store revenue?
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