Many family offices run QuickBooks or Sage for accounting, Excel for consolidation, Power BI for dashboards, Salesforce for relationship records, Snowflake for data storage, and custodian portals for source files. The stack may look advanced, but it starts to break when each tool holds a different version of the same number. That is the core…
Archives for May 18, 2026
APIs, SFTP, and File Imports: A Plain-English Guide for Family Office Operations Teams
Many family office operations teams manage data across QuickBooks or Sage, Excel workbooks, custodian portals, broker files, private investment PDFs, Addepar or Black Diamond exports, and internal reporting tools. Then a vendor conversation introduces terms like API, SFTP, file import, mapping, connector, and integration layer. For a nontechnical finance team, that language can make a…
Data Reconciliation for Family Offices: How to Know Your Reports Are Right
Many family offices run QuickBooks or Sage for the general ledger, Addepar or Black Diamond for portfolio views, custodian portals for holdings, broker files for activity, and Excel for final rollups. The problem begins when those systems stop agreeing with each other, and the team spends more time reconciling than reviewing results. A search for…
Bloomberg, Refinitiv, and FX Rates: How Market Data Fits into Family Office Accounting
Many family offices already have access to market data. The harder question is how that data actually moves into accounting and reporting. A common setup looks like this: Bloomberg or Refinitiv for pricing and FX rates, custodian files for holdings and transactions, broker reports for cash and positions, and Excel for adjustments, overrides, or final…
