A single operating platform for ARG & Associates—connecting finance, people, assets, client relationships, projects, documents, and service delivery without sacrificing module boundaries or financial integrity.
Working product · real seeded dataFirm-wide performance and governed work in one command centre.
The live dashboard brings receivables, payables, payroll, assets, cash, profit and loss, tax dates, pipeline, retainers, and audit activity into a single management view.
Inside the working system
Eight real screens. One operating model.
These are direct captures from the running ARGAA application using its seeded development records. Together they show how the platform turns firm-wide work into connected, accountable workflows.
11 modulesFinance to deliveryRole-aware accessAudited change
01 / Firm-wide navigation
The whole operating system, without losing module ownership.
The module hub gives every permitted team a clear starting point across eleven operational areas. Accounting, invoicing, people, assets, tax, CRM, projects, documents, capture, and system administration remain distinct while sharing one governed application.
Permission-aware module access
Consistent navigation and search
Clear boundaries between business domains
02 / Financial reporting
Reports derived from the ledger—not editable spreadsheet totals.
The Profit & Loss statement is generated for a selected reporting period and can be exported for further analysis. Income and expense lines remain traceable to the double-entry accounting foundation.
Period-based statement generation
Ledger-derived income and expenses
CSV export for controlled handoff
03 / Revenue control
Receivables stay connected to the client and the ledger.
Teams can search and filter invoices while seeing issued, part-paid, paid, and draft states alongside the amount collected and still outstanding. Commercial activity becomes visible before month-end reconciliation.
Invoice lifecycle states
Paid and outstanding balances
AR and AP aging views
04 / People and payroll
A controlled payroll run, not an isolated salary sheet.
Payroll sits beside employee, attendance, leave, department, and position records. A run preserves its period, gross value, deductions, net value, and processing state before its financial impact reaches the ledger.
Period-based payroll processing
Gross, deduction, and net controls
Accounting handoff through services
05 / Client development
From first contact to proposal, contract, and billable work.
The visual sales pipeline makes opportunity state, estimated value, source, and ownership visible. Quotes and contracts then provide a governed bridge from sales activity into invoicing and delivery.
Stage-based pipeline management
Lead value and source visibility
Quotes, contracts, and follow-ups
06 / Delivery economics
Project performance measured in delivery and margin.
Each job connects the client and project status to billing, cost, and margin. Procurement, milestones, retainers, and time entries give management the operational context behind the number.
Job-level billing and cost visibility
Margin calculated per project
Procurement and retainer workflows
07 / Asset accountability
Book value, custody, maintenance, and depreciation in one register.
The fixed-asset register combines asset identity with category, location, assignment, current book value, and operating status. Maintenance, depreciation, assignment, disposal, and reporting workflows extend the record through its full lifecycle.
Assignment and location history
Maintenance attention
Depreciation and disposal controls
The operating challenge
A professional firm cannot govern finance, people, and client work as separate islands.
Accounting entries, invoices, payroll, assets, tax, client relationships, projects, documents, and communications continuously affect one another. Connecting them through spreadsheets and isolated tools creates duplicate records, weak handoffs, and uncertainty about which information is authoritative.
ARGAA Platform was built as a modular monolith: one coherent application with strong internal boundaries. Each business area owns its rules and data, while published services and events coordinate the actions that must cross modules.
01 / Integrity
Financial records needed non-negotiable controls.
Balanced entries, period locks, append-only posting, reversals, and derived reporting form the accounting core.
02 / Continuity
Work needed to move cleanly between modules.
Quotes become contracts, invoices reach the ledger, payroll posts financial entries, and projects connect delivery to billing.
03 / Governance
Every material change needed ownership.
Roles, permissions, audit trails, queues, backups, and human review gates support responsible operation.
Platform scope
A governed operating core for the whole firm.
The product spans the daily transaction layer and the controls management needs to understand, approve, and protect the operation.
01
Accounting and reporting
Double-entry ledger, chart of accounts, fiscal periods, journal workflows, financial statements, aging, and management reporting.
02
Commercial operations
Clients, vendors, quotes, contracts, invoices, expenses, payments, procurement, projects, retainers, and time entries.
03
People and payroll
Employee records, departments, positions, attendance, leave, payroll runs, and controlled posting into the ledger.
04
Assets and tax
Fixed asset register, maintenance, depreciation runs, tax periods, computation, and filing records connected to financial data.
05
Documents and communications
Central documents, Google Drive integration, receipt capture, transactional email outbox, templates, and approval-led sending.
The modular-monolith architecture keeps deployment and transaction management understandable while preventing business areas from reaching directly into one another's data.
Hard module boundaries
Business logic lives in services. Modules communicate through explicit contracts and events. Posted financial records are never edited or deleted—only reversed.
A server-rendered Laravel application, PostgreSQL data layer, and Redis-backed queues support maintainable operation without introducing a separate SPA.
LaravelPHPPostgreSQLRedisLivewireTailwind CSS
Working software, paired with an honest release boundary.
The core platform is built, but live payroll, tax, public uploads, backups, and external integrations remain governed by documented configuration, security, restore-drill, device-test, and professional-sign-off gates.
