Bookkeeping and cash reporting for owner-managed businesses
Know your cash for the next 13 weeks.
Talanta keeps your books up to date and turns them into a rolling cash forecast and a monthly management pack. You see what is coming while there is still time to act on it.
Closing cash balance by week
Example data- Week 5 falls below your minimum. Two supplier payments land before a large customer receipt.£1,600 short
- Three invoices are overdue. Collecting them moves the low point above the line.£9,200
- VAT falls due in week 7. Already included in the forecast.£6,450
Most businesses find out about a cash problem when it arrives.
The accounts say what happened last month. They do not say whether next month's payroll is covered.
- 82%
of UK small businesses surveyed reported cash flow difficulties.
Novuna survey of 1,000 firms, 2025 - 89%
of UK companies were paid late in the past year.
Coface UK Payment Survey, 2026 - 34 days
is how overdue those late payments were, on average.
Coface UK Payment Survey, 2026
The work of a finance department, delivered as a bookkeeping service.
You send us your information. We keep the records, check them, and report back in a form you can act on.
Books kept up to date
Sales, purchases and bank transactions entered, checked and reconciled as they come in.
A 13-week cash forecast
Actual balances and expected receipts and payments in one view, week by week, with the low points marked.
Who owes you, and who you owe
Aged debtors and creditors, with reminders prepared for overdue invoices.
A monthly management pack
Profit, cash, debtors and creditors on a few clear pages, with the main movements explained in plain words.
Variances explained
Where the month differed from the forecast and from last month, and why.
One dashboard
The forecast, the pack and the detail behind every figure in a single place.
Built to look forward.
Sound accounting sits underneath. Cash is what you see first.
Bookkeeping as usual
- Reports on last month
- Cash position is one bank balance
- Reports written for accountants
- Problems show up in the year-end accounts
Talanta
- Reports on the next 13 weeks as well
- Cash position is a forecast you can test
- Reports written for the person running the business
- Problems show up weeks before they happen
How it works
We learn your business
A structured onboarding covers how you sell, buy, pay and get paid, and what you want to see each month.
You send information one way
Invoices, bills and bank data go through channels we agree at the start. Nothing is re-keyed on your side.
You receive the forward view
An updated cash forecast and a management pack, with the points that need a decision listed first.
The Talanta platform
We are turning the system behind the service into software you can run yourself. It is not available yet. Three ideas shape it.
Cash first
The forecast is the home screen. The ledger runs underneath and keeps it accurate.
Customers and money together
One record shows a customer's quotes, invoices, payment habits and what they still owe.
You approve what is automated
The system prepares entries and reminders. A person confirms them, and every action is logged.
About Talanta
Talanta Financial Systems was founded by Robert Dexter. He has worked in finance and accounting for more than ten years, starting as an accounts assistant and rising to associate group financial director of an international engineering group.
The service is his own method, developed independently and informed by that experience. It is tried and tested: a single flow that takes in a business's information once and returns its cash position, its reports and the reasons behind them.
Talanton, Greek. A balance, and the weight measured on it. Later, a sum of money.
We took the name because a business is in balance when what comes in covers what goes out, on the day it goes out.
Start with a conversation.
Tell us about your business and what you want to see each month. Ask about the service, or about early access to the platform.