Technical and practical articles for accountants and executives of micro-businesses, SMEs and industries across French-speaking Africa. Factual voice, examples verifiable in the application code.
What OHADA accounting covers: the Uniform Act on accounting law, revised SYSCOHADA, the nine-class chart of accounts, the two accounting systems, mandatory books, financial statements, record retention and the DSF. With the most common mistakes and how to keep OHADA books up to date without re-keying.
Unpaid invoices report, supplier invoices received by email, evening checks: part of accounting work repeats identically every week. How to choose what to automate, the three levels of automation, the essential safeguards, and how to connect n8n to your books through an MCP server.
A customer balance on the balance sheet is only a claim until the customer has confirmed it. What circularisation protects, why finance teams need it before the auditor does, how most companies run it today, and a six-step method to run it without spending weeks on it.
In many SMEs and accounting firms, most accounting time still goes into data entry. Why that is the wrong use of an accountant, how to organise bookkeeping around review instead of re-keying, what must stay under human control, and the indicators that show it works.
The DSF bundle is still rebuilt every year in a spreadsheet, from the trial balance. Why that is slow and risky, what to gather before you start, and how to produce a SYSCOHADA DSF from nothing more than your previous software's general ledger, during a 14-day free trial.
"Where does this figure come from?" A finance team must be able to answer in a minute, in front of an auditor, a banker or a tax inspector. What financial lineage is, why Excel set-ups break it, five principles to guarantee it, and a test to run on your own statements.
Changing accounting software in the OHADA zone is rightly feared: a wrong migration makes every statement wrong. The decisions to make (which file, how many years, when to switch), the checks that prove the migration is right, and how we orchestrate it at SynkriaOps.
You do not need a big project to digitalise an SME in the OHADA zone. The verification QR code printed on an invoice protects against fake invoices and reassures customers. What it proves, what it does not, and the other small steps that follow.
An unpaid invoice does not settle itself. How to prepare payment from the moment you invoice, chase at the right pace and in the right tone, move on to a formal notice then the OHADA order for payment, and handle a doubtful receivable under SYSCOHADA.
A factual comparison for an OHADA SME: Sage, Odoo, Excel and SynkriaOps. Strengths and limits of each on the criteria that matter in OHADA: native SYSCOHADA, Mobile Money, FEC, tax package, CFA francs, firm mode, mobile.
What you can really do with your accounting from a phone: capture supporting documents offline, assign and reconcile bank transactions, match entries, scan your stock, validate a document, and, honestly, what stays on the web.
How to manage stock spread across several warehouses while keeping a correct accounting valuation at weighted average cost (WAC): movements, inter-warehouse transfers, inventory, valued variances, and mobile scanning, all tied to SYSCOHADA accounting.