The Finlyt Blog
Notes on building financial intelligence for Indian businesses.
Product updates, MIS deep-dives and lessons on building financial intelligence for Indian businesses.
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What Ind AS actually means for a growing Indian SME — and when to start caring
Most SME founders treat Ind AS as a large-company problem. Here is the 24-month readiness timeline founders and CFOs actually need.
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Cash flow is not profit. The difference has killed more good businesses than bad strategy.
The most common cause of SME failure isn't bad strategy, weak products, or poor markets -- it's a timing mismatch between when costs are due and when revenue arrives.
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Why India's GST mandate quietly made every SME's data more valuable than they realise
GST digitisation forced structured transaction data into every Indian business. Most are sitting on a goldmine of financial intelligence they've never used.
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I built a 59-slide board pack for a hospital network by hand. Here is what I learned.
Six weeks. 20 hospitals. Three accounting systems. What manually building a ₹340Cr board pack taught me about why FinLytTech needed to exist.
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Your investor asked for MIS. Here is exactly what they are looking at.
The 7 numbers every investor checks first — and how to make sure yours tell the right story.
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Your business produced 12 numbers last month that could have changed how you run it. Most Indian SMEs never see them.
A practical guide to the 12 financial ratios every Indian SME should track monthly — what each one measures, what it reveals, and why the process of computing them reliably is the real problem.
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Your Accounting system knows everything. Your board pack knows nothing. Here is why and how to fix it.
Why fewer than 2% of Indian businesses produce structured financial reports — and how the last mile of MIS is finally being automated.