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Why we compare BI and reporting tools on these topics
| Topic | Accuna | Control.dev |
|---|---|---|
| 01 The work around the report | A report generator, without consultant help Talgraf says Accuna’s report generator lets a company build the reports it needs without consultant help1, and the named expert who runs onboarding works in a consultant’s role2. | Your team changes it, or asks Claude Your finance team edits the functional P&L, its allocation keys and a layout per audience, AI suggests the account mapping for the team to accept, and Claude drafts a dashboard you apply or discard, with no consultants to pay. |
| 02 When the second ledger arrives | Ownership shares and group structure versions Accuna Konserni eliminates intercompany items where internal accounts or a group code are used, takes partial ownership into account and keeps versions of the group structure3. | Eliminations in their own column, CTA kept apart Control.dev consolidates the ledgers each entity keeps, calculates Currency CTA and Elimination CTA apart from the eliminations, your AI client lists the intercompany pairs that do not match, and every figure opens to its entries. |
| 03 Planning on the same numbers | Scenarios and cash forecasts up to 20 years Accuna budgets by group, company or cost centre with scenarios and rolling plans4, and forecasts cash flow monthly up to 20 years ahead5. | A budget from a prompt, versions you can lock The P&L, balance sheet and cash flow are planned together, every version keeps its history and a locked one refuses every write, and your AI client drafts values with a reason on every cell. |
| 04 AI on the numbers | Accuna AI, built into the report view Talgraf announced Accuna AI in August 2026 as an add-on built into Accuna and used from the report view6, at EUR 15 per person a month with data kept in the EU or EEA7. | Claude, ChatGPT or Codex on the consolidated group They work over MCP with the user’s own role in every plan, and that MCP is built and tested for group accounting. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger: it finds what needs attention and traces it to the entries. It also reviews a month’s bookings on request and drafts the board pack, and Control.dev’s own AI chat processes data in the EU. |
| 05 Time to live, and how you leave | Two to three days to onboard, priced in advance, one monthly fee Talgraf’s named expert runs an onboarding that typically takes two to three days, with its duration and price agreed in advance8, and Accuna’s one monthly fee is quoted on request910. | Live in under two hours for most companies, no setup fee, billed monthly Our team sets up the integrations and the mapping and most companies have live data in under two hours, the prices are public with no setup fee and no multi-year contract, the notice period starts from one month, billing is monthly and the free trial runs 30 days. |
Control.dev consolidates the ledgers a group already runs into one group view with eliminations.
Where Accuna is the better choice
- Cash flow forecasts five to twenty years ahead, with alternative scenarios compared in one report5.
- Ownership shares with their effective periods and versions of the group structure in the tool3. Control.dev handles minority interests with group-level manual entries.
- Free phone support on weekdays for every customer11, and an onboarding priced in advance with a named expert8.
When teams look at Control.dev
From what finance teams have told us about the moment they started looking. We name no customers.
- Scenarios in the meeting, not in a week. A new finance lead wanted to change an assumption and see the group impact on the spot, instead of a week of spreadsheet work and formula checks.
- Replace, do not add. Teams worried about one more system to reconcile wanted consolidation, reporting and planning in one place, with numbers the auditor can follow to the entries.
- AI where the numbers already are. Teams expected AI inside the finance system they use every day.
Which fits your finance team
Choose Accuna if it already runs your budgeting, reporting and group tools the way you need, or you want long-range cash forecasts and free phone support from one Finnish vendor.
Choose Control.dev if you want to rework the plan in the management meeting: the three statements against live group actuals, with your own AI client drafting new values, each with its reason.
30 minutes on your ledgers and your first question.
Working with Control.dev
- Live in hours or days, not months Our team sets Control.dev up with you. Most companies have live data in under two hours from the first call, a larger group takes days, the hardest a few weeks, and there is no setup fee at any size. The comparison hub shows how long each vendor says its own rollout takes.
- Prices on one page, nothing billed on the side EUR 249, 499 and 999 a month excluding VAT, on the pricing page, with no multi-year contract and a notice period from one month. Support, user changes and settings changes are in the price, and nothing is billed per ticket or per request.
- Close support from the people who build the product Your questions go to the team that builds Control.dev, most are answered within minutes and almost all the same day, and we work through accounting and group-structure questions with you, not only software questions.
- Your AI client on a structure built for group accounting Claude, ChatGPT or Codex works on Control.dev over an MCP built and tested for group accounting. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger: it finds what needs attention and traces it to the entries, within the access your role allows.
- Built with the finance teams that use it, at pace Our roadmap comes from our customers, demanding finance professionals, and a gap in a feature list is the best news we can get. A missing feature typically ships in days and a larger one in weeks. A ledger connector we would build anyway comes at no extra cost; today Control.dev connects Netvisor, Procountor, Easor (Talenom), Fortnox, Spiris (formerly Visma eEkonomi), Tripletex, e-conomic, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Odoo, Xledger and NetSuite, plus Stripe.
- A younger product, and who it is for Control.dev is built by Finata Oy in Helsinki since 2024, by a team from finance roles and finance systems. It fits a team that already works with AI tools, or wants to, and would rather not keep data engineers or system consultants for its reporting. If AI is not something your company wants to work with, we are probably the wrong partner, and where another tool covers more than Control.dev, the page above says so.
What switching looks like
- 1 Run both side by side for a period. Control.dev reads your ledgers with read-only access by default, so Accuna and your ledgers stay as they are while you compare the numbers. The 30-day free trial covers up to three integrations.
- 2 Send us screenshots of the three or four reports your board already knows, and we rebuild them in Control.dev first, so the first month looks familiar.
- 3 Your contract and notice period decide when you leave the current tool. Control.dev has no implementation fee and no multi-year contract, and its notice period starts from one month, so the parallel run can start well before then.
Questions
Is Control.dev an alternative to Accuna?
For some groups. If Accuna already runs your reporting and group tools the way you need, there is little reason to add a system. If you want long-range cash forecasts and group tools from one Finnish vendor, with a named expert for onboarding, Accuna is built for that58. If your group wants the eliminations and CTA in view, the three statements planned from a prompt and reports its own team changes, Control.dev is built for that. Teams come to Control.dev when they want the plan reworked in the meeting, every figure open to its entries and their own Claude or ChatGPT on the group numbers, set up by our team in hours for most companies.
What do setup and later changes cost?
With Control.dev, our team sets up the integrations and the mapping with no setup fee, and most companies have live data in under two hours; Inven connected its sources and ran its first automated sync in hours. Later changes to a mapping, a layout or a dashboard are made by your team or its AI client, with no consultants to pay. Talgraf agrees Accuna’s onboarding duration and price in advance8, and quotes the monthly fee on request10. Control.dev publishes its monthly prices, excluding VAT: EUR 249 for one entity and one integration, EUR 499 for consolidation with three integrations and EUR 999 with five, where a Stripe connection counts as one integration, with no implementation fee, no multi-year contract and a notice period from one month.
Can we use our own AI assistant?
With Control.dev, yes: Claude, ChatGPT and Codex work with the consolidated group over MCP in every plan, draft the budget with a reason on every value and review a month’s bookings on request. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger. Talgraf describes Accuna AI, which is built into Accuna and analyses the reports you select, at EUR 15 per person a month7.
Is Control.dev one more system to reconcile?
It reads the same ledgers through their official APIs with read-only access by default, so nothing is posted twice and the ledgers stay the books of record. Every group figure opens to the transactions behind it, so the numbers trace back to the books. Accuna also takes its data from the ledgers, for example as balance data exported from Procountor at the click of a button12.
Which ledgers does each connect to?
Accuna lists more than 100 systems, including many Finnish ones13, and Talgraf says it will gladly build an interface where none exists14. Control.dev connects Netvisor, Procountor, Easor (Talenom), Fortnox, Spiris (formerly Visma eEkonomi), Tripletex, e-conomic, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Odoo, Xledger and NetSuite, plus Stripe for billing data. Accounting firms can offer Control.dev to their group clients through our partner programme, as Talgraf has one for Accuna15.
Where is the data stored?
Talgraf says Accuna AI keeps all data in the EU or EEA7. Control.dev’s data is hosted on Google Cloud in Hamina, Finland, encrypted in transit and at rest. Control.dev’s own AI features process data in the EU; an AI client you connect over MCP processes what it reads under your agreement with its provider.
What support do we get?
Close support on every plan. Your questions go to the team that builds Control.dev, most are answered within minutes and almost all the same day, and we work through accounting and group-structure questions with you, not only software questions. Support, user changes and settings changes are in the price, and Enterprise adds a dedicated Slack channel and priority support.
