A lot of companies silo their accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in ways that keep them separated. Depending on the size of your business, you may not even have an ERP system implemented within your organization, but hopefully after you read this article, your feelings about this will change. You see, the primary purpose of ERP systems is to both assist accounting with the books and help your finance team with reports and monetary monitoring, while simultaneously keeping the rest of your organization’s workflow running smoothly. Great ERP systems incorporate both accounting and finance functions (as well as other departments’ responsibilities), facilitating an overall ease and flow to your operations management processes.