Practical guides to e-invoicing, VAT and bookkeeping across the Middle East — written for the people who actually issue the invoices and file the returns.
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Most business owners open their financial statements, look at the bottom line, and close them again. The bottom line is the least useful thing in there. The real value is in how the three reports tie to each other — which is what makes a single suspicious number give itself away.
Read the articleMost businesses in the region started their books on a spreadsheet, and at the time that was entirely the right call. The trouble is that the moment it stops being enough arrives without warning — the file keeps opening and keeps calculating, and it has quietly started to lie.
Read the article"AI-powered" usually means a black box. Fatouraty's auditor is the opposite on purpose: every finding comes from an exact, inspectable rule, and it runs with no API key at all. The language model, when one is configured, only explains — it never flags anything, and it never acts.
Read the articleA weighted-average cost is not a number Fatouraty stores and looks up. It is recomputed from a running total quantity and a running total value, on purpose — because a stored rate rounds twice, and the second rounding is the one that quietly breaks a balance sheet.
Read the article"Auto-matched" sounds like AI. It is closer to arithmetic: an exact amount, a five-day window, and exactly one candidate — or the line waits for you. Here is precisely what that means against a real statement.
Read the articleFatouraty does not look up an exchange rate on your behalf. You enter one on the invoice, optionally another at settlement, and a third at period-end revaluation — three different moments, and three different ways FX gain or loss can show up.
Read the articleReal double-entry accounting and e-invoicing built to the ZATCA, FTA, ETA and JoFotara specifications, in Arabic and English.
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