Ledge vs Numeric
Whether you’re evaluating Numeric or already using it to improve visibility into your close, Ledge is built to automate what Numeric still leaves manual. Numeric helps finance teams analyze, explain, and report on close results.
Ledge goes a step further: AI agents perform the close work itself, generating Excel working papers with live formulas, drafting journal entries, and keeping everything continuously in sync with source systems.
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Numeric improves visibility, but the work still happens elsewhere
Numeric is a modern, AI-forward close platform designed to improve how teams review, explain, and report on the close. It excels at: centralized reporting and dashboards, variance (flux) analysis and narratives, automation in specific, repeatable workflows (e.g. cash, certain journal entries).
But when it comes to actually producing the outputs of close workflows — the spreadsheets accountants rebuild every month — most of that work still happens outside the system.
Why close tools like Numeric still slow the close every month
With Ledge, AI agents perform the close, not just track and analyze it
Why it matters: Most close tools, including Numeric, still depend on humans to prepare the underlying accounting work. Ledge is built so that the system does that work for you.
Ledge vs Numeric: Structural differences between Ledge and Numeric
Ledge: one system where agents do the work, and accountants stay in control
Numeric is a modern close platform that helps teams automate parts of the close, including account reconciliations and certain journal entry workflows, while improving variance analysis, reporting, and review.
Ledge goes further: agents execute the close workflows themselves, fetching live source data, generating Excel working papers with live formulas, and drafting journal entries, while accountants direct the logic, review outputs, and approve results.
How Ledge and Numeric handle day-to-day accounting work
FAQ
Numeric automates specific close tasks, particularly transaction matching, certain journal entries, and variance analysis, and centralizes reconciliation workflows in one platform. Ledge uses AI agents to execute close workflows end-to-end. It generates reconciliation working papers with live formulas, drafts journal entries across workflows, drafts flux narratives, and presents outputs for review and approval.
The key difference is whether your team prepares most schedules manually or the system generates them automatically.
Yes. Numeric pulls ERP (and bank) transactions, automates matching, flags discrepancies, and supports reconciliation review and submission workflows.However, supporting reconciliation schedules and working papers are typically prepared externally and uploaded or maintained in-platform.
No Ledge does not replace Excel. Ledge generates Excel working papers with live formulas. Accountants can open, review, and adjust calculations, but they no longer have to rebuild those schedules manually every period.
Numeric automates journal entries for defined, repeatable workflows such as cash activity and other rule-based patterns.Ledge drafts journal entries from agent-defined workflows across the close — including cash, accruals (with auto-reversals), intercompany, FX, amortization, and other custom logic — and routes them through ERP approval workflows.
Numeric is strong for teams focused on reconciliation automation and variance visibility.Ledge is designed for teams that want to reduce manual preparation across the broader close — especially when workflows span multiple systems such as ERP, billing platforms, banks, HRIS, and subledgers.
Ledge is a NetSuite-native SuiteApp with continuous bi-directional sync of accounts, segments, and metadata, and respects existing approval workflows.
Numeric integrates with ERP systems but is not an official NetSuite partner and operates as an external platform.
Yes. Ledge supports intercompany journal entries and multi-entity close workflows as part of its agent-based execution model.
