IndustriesProfessional Services
The books and
the people, not
the timesheets.
A services firm sells its people, so the two things that decide the year are what you bill and how you pay. FlowZa AI covers both — invoicing and the ledger on one side, appraisal and increments on the other. It does not capture time, and it is honest about that.
THREE ENTITIES AT CLOSE · FLOWZA FINANCE
- Bengaluru operating companyIndiaLockedGST return filed, period closed, no further postings accepted
- Dubai advisory branchUnited Arab EmiratesLockedVAT at 5 per cent and corporate tax at 9 per cent both computed
- Muscat delivery centreOmanIn reviewTwo intercompany recharges awaiting sign-off before the lock
Group reporting reads the three entities directly. Balances in a foreign functional currency are translated on your configured rate source at close — there is no export from each company to be reconciled into a fourth set of books.
Illustrative. Each entity keeps its own functional currency, tax registration and chart-of-accounts pack, and the period lock is per entity — so one company can close while another is still in review.
What it covers
Two applications,
bought separately.
FlowZa Finance — billing and the ledger
Client invoicing, purchases, the double-entry books, multi-entity consolidation and multi-currency translation at close, with GST for India and VAT and corporate tax for the Gulf built in.
FlowZa Finance — payroll and HR
EPF, ESI, professional tax and gratuity for India; WPS bank files for the UAE; social insurance for Oman and GOSI for Saudi Arabia. The statutory half of paying people, maintained as the rules change.
FlowZa PMS — the appraisal cycle
KRA and KPI cycles with self, manager and reviewer stages, calibrated across partners before anything is communicated, so a rating is defensible rather than a matter of who argued hardest.
FlowZa PMS — increments and letters
Compensation resolved against the statutory rules of each person’s country, preserving the component structure of their salary, closing with a letter a bank or a landlord can verify on a public page.
Scope
What FlowZa AI
does not do here.
Services firms usually shop for a practice management system first. That is not what this is, and the gap is worth stating before a demo rather than after one.
No time capture
There is no timesheet, no timer and no time entry in any of the nine. Hours worked are not recorded, so nothing downstream of them can be computed.
No utilisation or resourcing
Chargeable percentage per person, bench time and forward resourcing against pipeline are outside the product.
No work in progress or realisation
Unbilled work in progress, write-off analysis and the leak between hours delivered and cash collected are not modelled, because the hours are not modelled.
No engagement or project ledger
Revenue is recognised against invoices in the ledger, not accrued against engagement completion. Project profitability is not a report FlowZa AI produces.
Firms commonly keep a practice management or time-recording tool and use FlowZa Finance for the books and statutory filing, and FlowZa PMS for the review cycle. Each application exposes its own API for the handover.
Questions services firms ask
Can we invoice from it?
Yes. FlowZa Finance raises client invoices, applies the right tax treatment for the jurisdiction, and posts them to the ledger. What it cannot do is build the invoice from recorded hours, because hours are not recorded — the value has to come in from wherever you capture time.
We operate in three countries. Does that work?
That is the case FlowZa Finance is built for. Each entity keeps its own functional currency, tax registration and chart-of-accounts pack, period locks are per entity, and group reporting reads the entities rather than consolidating exports from them.
Does PMS replace our HR system?
It replaces the appraisal and increment half of one. Review cycles, calibration and compensation decisions live in FlowZa PMS. Recruitment, onboarding, leave and the employee record itself do not.
Which should we start with?
Most firms start with Finance, because the close and the statutory filing are the urgent problem and the incumbent is usually an accounting package that has been outgrown. PMS is a separate decision, on a separate subscription, usually taken at the start of a review cycle.