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Built for the Full Accounting Lifecycle

From the first journal entry to the final audit, Caydem brings professional-grade accounting to the desktop — with the rigor, structure, and data ownership that real operations demand.

Want to know how these guarantees are enforced rather than just claimed? Read the architecture .

Accounting Core

A complete double-entry ledger

Caydem is built on a true double-entry foundation. Every transaction posts balanced debits and credits, so your books are always in balance and every figure traces back to its source.

General Ledger
Post manual and system-generated journal entries against a flexible chart of accounts. Drill from any balance down to the originating transaction. Once posted, an entry is immutable — corrections are explicit reversals, and the database enforces it.
Accounts Receivable
Issue sales invoices, track customer balances and aging, and apply customer payments with full allocation against open invoices.
Accounts Payable
Record vendor bills, manage payment runs, and process expense reports. See upcoming obligations and your true cash position.
Financial Reporting
Generate the balance sheet, income statement, and trial balance on demand, scoped to any period or fiscal year.

Period Management

Close with confidence

Caydem gives structure to the close. Define your fiscal calendar, work through a guided month-end, and lock periods once they are final — so the numbers you report stay the numbers of record.

Fiscal Year & Periods
Configure flexible fiscal calendars with monthly periods. Support standard calendar years or custom fiscal year starts.
Month-End Close
Work through a close checklist, review balances, and capture reviewer sign-offs before a period is finalized.
Period Locking
Lock closed periods to prevent back-dated edits. Reopen with the proper permissions and a clear audit trail when a correction is needed.
Year-End Procedures
Roll forward retained earnings and carry balances into the new fiscal year with a guided year-end workflow.

Audit & Compliance

Built for the external audit

When the CPAs arrive, Caydem is ready. Give auditors a dedicated, scoped portal with the requests, documents, and samples they need — without exposing your entire system. The controls they test for are enforced by the system, not left to discipline.

CPA Engagement Portal
Create an engagement, invite the audit team, and grant scoped read access to the periods and entities under review.
PBC Lists
Manage a prepared-by-client request list. Track each item from open to fulfilled, with documents attached directly to the request.
Statistical Sampling
Configure and pull transaction samples for testing, with reproducible selection criteria the auditor can rely on.
Period Sign-Offs
Surface the close sign-offs and supporting evidence the auditor needs to verify that controls were followed.
Segregation of Duties
Rules wired into the approval path stop the person who created a document from approving it. The company owner role is no exception — and disabling a rule is an explicit act, not a silent bypass.
Mutation Audit Trail
Changes to core documents — invoices, bills, payments — and to every approval request are logged with the actor, the before and after values, and the reason — so “who changed this, and why” always has an answer.

Team & Access

The right people, the right access

Invite your team, assign roles, and manage many entities from one place. Identity and access are managed centrally, so permissions are consistent and revocable across every company.

Roles & Permissions
Every mutating action checks a permission before it runs — enforced in the service layer, not left to the interface. Roles govern who can post entries, close periods, and administer settings within each company.
Team Invitations
Invite team members by email and onboard them through central identity management. Revoke access at any time.
Multi-Company
Manage multiple legal entities from a single application, each in its own isolated schema, with row-level security policies scoped by company defined on every domain and ledger table. Switch companies in a click.
Company Legal Profile
Capture each entity’s legal name, tax identifiers, and registered details to keep filings and records accurate.

Data & Integrations

Your data, on your terms

Caydem keeps your books in a database you control, works whether or not you have a connection, and never traps your data. Export anything; attach evidence anywhere.

CSV Export
Export the contents of any data panel to CSV in bulk — transactions, balances, invoices, and more — for analysis or external reporting.
Attachments
Attach source documents — receipts, contracts, statements — directly to transactions so the supporting evidence is always one click away.
Offline-First
With a local database, Caydem runs fully offline. Work in the field, at a remote site, or anywhere a connection cannot reach.
Industry Add-Ons
A shipped add-on mechanism layers industry verticals on the accounting core without forking it. A module registers its own dimension types, owns its own tables, and runs inside core transactions. Oil & gas came first, adding a well record and a well dimension; automotive and RV is in flight.
Backup & Restore
Take a full backup from inside the app and restore it without DBA tools — a readable manifest plus one compressed data file per table. Restores validate the schema version first and take an automatic pre-restore backup as your undo.
Archive, Never Delete
Anything reachable from a posted transaction is archived rather than deleted. A vendor who went out of business in 2021 is still the payee on every 2021 invoice.

See it in your own books

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