Flatbooks — sample August walkthrough AI-generated narration with original instrumental music. Every screen is today’s Flatbooks client workspace, replayed from the raw QuickBooks reports recorded in a September 22, 2026 sandbox run. The source note shown in the correction and in History is a shortened summary of the original record. Pacing is not execution timing. SPOKEN NARRATION [Soft instrumental music throughout; fades at the end.] 00:00:00.600 — Reviewing a monthly close across QuickBooks Online companies? Flatbooks helps prepare one group workbook. 00:00:08.400 — First, the reviewer confirms the company list, ownership and required adjustments. 00:00:14.200 — If one listed company owns another, Flatbooks cannot complete the report. 00:00:20.400 — Here, one pair differs by $137.49. Investigate the cause before deciding what to correct. 00:00:30.400 — Here, a repair payable was recorded twice. The reviewer records that cause. 00:00:36.300 — In this case: debit the payable. Credit Repairs and Maintenance. Check the company and date. 00:00:43.200 — Posting requires your approval. Later balances change too. 00:00:48.400 — Flatbooks checks fresh QuickBooks reports. Here, the pair’s difference fell to zero. 00:00:56.400 — History saves the reason and journal reference. It does not track later QuickBooks edits. 00:01:03.400 — Flatbooks eliminates this $2,400 fee from group income and expense. 00:01:11.300 — August group net income is $39,400, traceable to each company. 00:01:18.000 — Five sheets, including year to date and checks. Exported totals are static. 00:01:24.400 — If needed, Undo posts a reversal and keeps the original. Export pauses again here. This workbook was saved before Undo. 00:01:33.400 — Try another example, or inspect this workbook. No account or QuickBooks connection needed. VISUAL DETAILS AND LIMITATIONS 00:00:00.000 — Three QuickBooks companies. One monthly result. For bookkeepers preparing reports across related companies: connect the client’s QuickBooks Online companies, review differences, and export the group workbook. This corrected month reports $48,000 income, $8,600 expenses and $39,400 net income. This example: three sibling companies · USD · accrual · August 1–31, 2026. 00:00:08.000 — Can Flatbooks prepare this group report? The reviewer confirms all required companies are connected. In this example, none of the listed companies owns another listed company, and no additional group-level adjustments are needed. These are the sample’s stated facts. The reviewer must confirm them; Flatbooks does not automatically establish ownership. These are facts about the client, not errors to clear. If one listed company owns part or all of another listed company, or unsupported adjustments are required, export is paused because Flatbooks does not calculate that work. 00:00:20.000 — One pair is $137.49 apart. Maplewood shows $10,737.49 payable. Crestbrook Property Management shows $10,600 receivable. Flatbooks highlights the difference and holds the export. A difference identifies what needs investigation. It does not establish the cause or the correct accounting entry. 00:00:30.000 — Review the duplicate payable. In this example, a repair expense and payable were recorded twice. The reviewer records that reason, selects Maplewood and Repairs & Maintenance, then posts the displayed journal entry. In this case: debit Due to Crestbrook Property Management LLC $137.49; credit Repairs & Maintenance $137.49. This treatment follows the recorded evidence; it is not a universal fix. 00:00:48.000 — The entry posts to QuickBooks. Journal #246 posted. Flatbooks fetched fresh QuickBooks reports and confirmed the pair’s difference fell from $137.49 to $0. A cleared pair difference confirms this reconciliation check. It does not establish that the whole close is complete. 00:00:56.000 — Keep the why with the entry. History retains the source explanation, company, date, accounts and journal reference. The explanation is also saved to the QuickBooks entry and the exported workbook. These are saved preparation details. Later QuickBooks edits are not reflected in the historical record; source documents are not authenticated. 00:01:03.000 — The group earns $39,400 this month. August’s $2,400 management fee appears as one company’s income and another’s expense. Flatbooks removes both from the group report. Net income stays $39,400; YTD is $239,200. All 16 workbook checks passed in this case. Five sheets: Consolidation, Monthly P&L, YTD P&L, Intercompany and Verification. Static values: edits in Excel do not recalculate totals or checks. 00:01:24.000 — Reverse a correction when needed. Undo is optional recovery, not a required close step. Here it posted reversal #247: the $137.49 difference returned and export paused again. The original correction remains in History. The enclosed workbook preserves the earlier corrected state, before Undo. After changing the books, refresh the reports and prepare a new export when the checks pass. 00:01:33.000 — Which step would this replace for you? Explore a separate Riverside practice example, or inspect the Crestbrook workbook shown in this film. Compare these with your own deliverable: what would still need work before you could hand it to its reviewer? Both examples are public and require no account or QuickBooks connection. The Crestbrook workbook preserves the corrected state before Undo. These results do not establish customer time saved, demand or repeat use.