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Comparison
Three Ways to Do Investment Accounting.
Only One Was Built for It.
Most organizations manage investment portfolios with tools that weren’t designed for it. Here’s how the approaches compare – and why it matters at tax time.
How Do They Stack Up?
When your portfolio includes corporate actions, multiple custodians, and Canadian tax obligations — the details matter.
Spreadsheet Approach |
Wealth Write.Up |
Middleware Approach |
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Transaction Coverage |
Custom formulas for every corporate action. Breaks when it gets complex. |
41 transaction types built in. Validated automatically. |
Handles standard trades. Complex transactions need manual fixes or complex mapping rules. |
General Ledger |
Excel and QuickBooks live in separate worlds. Never fully reconciled. |
True GL + subledger in one platform. Auto-posts with drill-through. |
One-way data push into the GL. No link back to investment detail. |
Tax & Audit |
Hand-built reports. ACB in formulas. Audit prep takes weeks. |
30+ tax-ready reports in minutes. One-click Taxprep export. |
Basic trade summaries. Detailed tax reporting still manual. |
Multi-Custodian |
One spreadsheet per custodian. Consolidation is copy-paste. |
Single source of truth. Consolidated and entity-level views are native. |
Aggregates data, but consolidation happens in a GL that wasn’t built for it. |
Multi-Currency & FX |
Manual conversions. Inconsistent rates. FX gains are untraceable. |
Automated FX with rate tracking. Realized and unrealized gains posted automatically. |
Some automated FX. Complex gain/loss tracking falls back to spreadsheets. |
Key Person Risk |
Everything lives in one person’s spreadsheet. They leave, it leaves. |
Knowledge is in the system. Role-based access. Full audit trail. |
Less manual work, but mapping logic still depends on tribal knowledge. |
Scalability |
Every new entity or asset class = another tab, another risk. |
Add entities, currencies, custodians. Workflow stays the same. |
Scales extraction, not accounting. More complexity = more workarounds. |
50%+ less time. Zero spreadsheet risk.
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