About Beyond Group
Beyond Group is a diversified construction services company based in Rocky View County, Alberta, just outside Calgary. Founded by Kevin Boschee and his partner Curt Janzen nearly two decades ago, Beyond Group has grown from a single-entity operation into a multi-division construction leader. The firm provides a wide spectrum of services, including insulation, roofing, concrete lifting, fireproofing, firestopping, coatings, sound insulation, and industrial projects — serving homeowners, contractors, large builders, and even oil field clients across Western Canada.
As the company expanded its operations and scope, managing finances across multiple operating entities became a mounting challenge — until LiveFlow stepped in.
From Manual Chaos to Seamless Consolidation
The Challenge
Up until late 2024, Beyond Group operated under a single QuickBooks Online (QBO) account, tracking its various divisions through Classes. This changed dramatically when Kevin and his team restructured the company into multiple standalone business divisions — each with its own Quickbooks Online account.
Overnight, Beyond Group went from managing one QBO account to juggling six: four operating companies, an admin account, and a holdings company. This shift made consolidation and reporting exponentially more complex and time-consuming for their finance team.
Manual data extraction, error-prone spreadsheets, and outdated financials quickly became the norm — a major concern for a business that operates on tight cash flows and works with numerous intercompany transactions.
Why LiveFlow Stood Out
Beyond Group evaluated multiple platforms before selecting LiveFlow. Kevin and Kim were drawn to LiveFlow’s simplicity, robust multi-entity consolidation capabilities, and tight integration with QBO and Excel. When comparing it to other platforms, they found LiveFlow to be noticeably more robust — especially in areas like budgeting and consolidation. The interface felt more intuitive and visually polished, and updates made in one place flowed automatically, reducing manual effort and increasing accuracy.
Key Advantages
- Real-time consolidation: LiveFlow’s powerful multi-entity consolidation capabilities allowed Beyond Group to unify its six Quickbooks files into a single source of financial truth — eliminating manual errors and delays.
- Accuracy and trust: As Kim puts it, “everything entered once in Quickbooks flows through and updates automatically.” This gave the team confidence in their data.
- User-friendly onboarding: Kevin praised the onboarding process as “one of the best we've had with any software,” enabling their team to get up and running within weeks.
- No more duplicate work: Late-arriving invoices, previously a major headache, now simply get entered once and flow through to all relevant reports.
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Industry-Specific Needs: Built for the Realities of Construction Finance
Construction finance is uniquely complex — characterized by mobile operations, varied project scopes, and fluctuating costs. For Beyond Group, these realities are compounded by the fact that they operate six distinct entities across multiple service verticals. Managing finances in this environment means juggling intercompany transactions, delayed vendor billing, and large variances in revenue cycles — all of which require a tool that’s fast, flexible, and accurate.
The Struggle with Traditional Tools
Construction finance is rarely static — it’s fluid, reactive, and driven heavily by accounts payable and receivable. Payments often arrive late, vendors may submit invoices from prior months, and intercompany transfers happen on a rolling basis to cover job-specific needs. This means construction finance teams constantly revisit the past, retroactively correcting or adding financial data to reflect operational realities.
For a company like Beyond Group — with six QuickBooks accounts and frequent movement of cash, invoices, and journal entries — the traditional approach of manually updating spreadsheets quickly proved unsustainable.
Before LiveFlow, Beyond Group relied on Excel and Google Sheets to consolidate financials. But as the number of entities and data points grew, so did the risk. Each delayed invoice or journal adjustment triggered ripple effects across their reports. And because those reports weren’t connected to live data, they were often outdated by the time anyone reviewed them — making decision-making risky and sometimes based on incorrect numbers.
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Putting It into Action: KPIs & Critical Workflows Delivered in Real Time
LiveFlow gave Kevin and Kim a centralized, real-time view of the numbers that matter most — helping them move from reactive to proactive financial management. With streamlined access to consolidated data, they’re now able to monitor key performance indicators and execute critical workflows with greater speed and confidence:
- Gross Profit (GP%) and Net Profit across divisions
- Budget vs. Actuals performance comparisons
- Accounts Receivable Aging, with a focus on 90+ day balances
- Intercompany eliminations across balance sheets
Designed for Multi-Entity Operators in Construction
LiveFlow’s real strength lies in how it supports multi-entity operators like Beyond Group — companies that have outgrown Class-based tracking and need a better method of consolidation. Rather than adopting a costly ERP system, Kevin and Kim found that LiveFlow allowed them to scale within a familiar toolset: Microsoft Excel and QuickBooks Online.
LiveFlow Benefits
- Maintain a real-time financial picture across six QBO accounts
- Automate audit prep and executive-level reporting
- Eliminate risk from manual consolidation and formula breakage
- Expand without added headcount or systems complexity
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Kim echoed the confidence:
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For growing construction firms managing multiple entities, LiveFlow offers a modern, intuitive, and scalable alternative to traditional FP&A tools — with zero compromise on control or visibility.
In fact, the time savings from automating their consolidation and reporting workflows have been so significant that Kevin estimates they’ve avoided hiring a part-time finance assistant altogether.
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A Scalable Solution for a Growing Construction Business
Beyond Group is already planning to add more divisions in the coming year. With LiveFlow, scaling up doesn't require retraining or new infrastructure — just connecting the new Quickbooks Online account and mapping it into the existing reporting structure.
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📢 Build smarter financial operations for your construction business.
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