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Finance ops for inventory-led businesses
Practical guides on multi-channel P&L, COGS, landed cost, and continuous close. Written for D2C operators running on Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop, and wholesale.
TikTok Shop accounting: a 2026 playbook for D2C brands
Daily settlement, variable affiliate commission, marketplace-facilitator tax. Why TikTok Shop accounting is harder than Amazon or Shopify, and how to bring it into a real multi-channel P&L.
Hindole Dutta9 min readShopify financial reporting: the five gaps
Shopify Reports are sales analytics, not financial reports. The five gaps a $10M+ brand has to bridge: payout reconciliation, COGS attribution, refund period matching, gift card liability, and channel-variable costs.
Hindole Dutta9 min readLanded cost accounting for D2C: definition + worked example
Landed cost is FOB plus freight plus duty plus broker plus inland. Most brands track only FOB and overstate gross margin by 30 to 80 percent. The six components, four allocation methods, and a worked example.
Hindole Dutta11 min readThe complete guide to Amazon FBA fee reconciliation (2026)
Amazon settlements list 40+ fee types. Here is what each one means, how to match it back to orders, and how to recover the 3 to 8 percent of revenue most brands silently leak.
Hindole Dutta10 min readWhat is Multi-Channel P&L? A 2026 guide for D2C brands
Why classical accounting tools fail at channel-level margin, and what an inventory-led finance OS has to compute to fix it.
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