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Financial Statement APIs: Why Most Accounting Platforms Fall Short
Most accounting APIs offer basic CRUD operations but fail to expose critical financial statements like balance sheets and cash flow reports. Only P&L and balance sheets have decent API support; cash flow and trial balances are often missing or poorly formatted. Developers must work around gaps by reconstructing statements from raw ledger data.
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The article highlights a real pain point for fintech developers, but the proposed workarounds are not novel—this is more a catalog of known limitations than a solution.
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