Honestly Just Spreadsheets, Inc. Finance Handbook
How Honestly Just Spreadsheets, Inc. does its accounting. Start with the page you need.
Sample. Honestly Just Spreadsheets, Inc. is a fictional company. Every name, number, and policy here is synthetic, written to show what a filled-in handbook looks like. Your policies are yours to set.
Company at a glance
- Company: Honestly Just Spreadsheets, Inc. Makes Honestly, per-seat software for finance teams that live in spreadsheets.
- Entities: One. Honestly Just Spreadsheets, Inc. (Delaware), USD.
- Fiscal year / basis: Calendar year, accrual.
- Accounting system: QuickBooks Online.
- Close target: Books closed by business day 8.
- Materiality: Explain any P&L line that moves more than $5,000 and 10% month over month.
- Finance owner: Head of Finance. Day-to-day bookkeeping by an outsourced accounting firm.
Where to find what
| Topic | File |
|---|---|
| Entities, business model, systems, who approves what | handbook/company-overview.md |
| Account structure, numbering, reporting rollups | handbook/chart-of-accounts.md |
| Capitalization, prepaids, accruals, revenue, other policies | handbook/accounting-policies.md |
| Close calendar, checklist, flux thresholds, sign-off | handbook/close-process.md |
| Bank and card accounts, what counts as cash, transfers | handbook/cash.md |
| Metric definitions, burn and runway, plan, who reads the numbers | handbook/metrics-and-reporting.md |
| What Claude can read, and the clean-inputs checklist | handbook/systems-and-data.md |
| JE and rec workpaper standard: tabs, naming, checks, sign-off | handbook/workpaper-standard.md |
| How skills work and how to add one | skills/README.md |
Open questions
- [PLACEHOLDER: Stock-based compensation booking cadence: monthly or quarterly? Owner: Head of Finance.]
- [PLACEHOLDER: Capitalize the 2026 website rebuild, or expense it? Owner: Head of Finance, with the outside accountants.]