For defence & robotics
From the first prototype to production, keep programme costs, supplier spend and entity finances in view. Light brings the books onto one ledger, with reporting dimensions and approvals that your finance team controls.
Chosen by Biofire
Accounting software for defence and robotics companies connects development spending and supplier approvals with group accounts.
For finance teams supporting defence technology, autonomous systems and robotics businesses as they develop products, deliver contracts and grow.
Explore the platformUse cost centres and custom properties to organise financial entries around your programmes. Build reports on supplier spend and development costs, with drill-down to the underlying transactions.
Let agents capture and code invoices for components, equipment and services. Match bills against purchase orders and route discrepancies for review before payment.
Route bills and expenses by amount, vendor, cost centre or entity. Keep preparers, approvers and payers separate, with decisions recorded in the audit trail.
Bring the parent company, development teams and overseas subsidiaries onto one ledger. Consolidate across entities and currencies without rebuilding the group picture in spreadsheets.
Keep local statutory books and group reporting together. Trace the adjustments between them so your team can explain the numbers in either view.
Follow financial entries back to source documents and approval history. Give reviewers the context behind a cost, payment or adjustment when they need it.
The work changes as you grow. Your financial foundation should carry through.
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Bring development spend and supplier bills into the same financial view. Use current actuals to inform funding decisions and conversations about the next stage of a programme.
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Keep invoice coding, approvals and payments connected as purchasing grows. Engineers can review requests in Slack or Teams while finance retains the record.
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Add entities and currencies to the same platform. Give the group a consolidated view while each finance team works with its own books and permissions.
Biofire / Manufacturing
“Our manufacturing systems pull live cost data straight from the ledger, so production never waits on finance to catch up.”
Biofire's published manufacturing example shows how its team connects production systems with Light.
See Biofire's use caseConnected finance
Keep the specialist tools your teams use for design, production and delivery. Light’s open API lets you connect financial data to the systems around it, while reporting, approvals and the books share one ledger.
We’ll work through your programme structure, contract requirements and integration needs with you, so the setup reflects how your business operates.
Permissions, approval routing and a traceable financial record belong in everyday work. Review Light’s security documentation and discuss your requirements with our team.
Visit the Trust CenterQuestions, answered
Use custom properties for programme, project and cost-centre values. Apply them to bills and financial entries, then use those dimensions in reports. Specialised contract costing needs its own assessment.
Keep engineering, manufacturing and delivery workflows in their specialist systems. Light provides the financial foundation, with API integrations scoped to the records that need to move.
Bring the contract terms, reporting requirements, cost treatments and data requirements into the evaluation. Review the Trust Center and explicitly assess sector-specific requirements with the team.
See how Light can support the finance behind your defence or robotics business.
