Sources shows every system feeding your financial data and what each one reports — revenue, expenses and net cash, side by side.
Why compare them at all
Because they will differ, and the difference is information.
Your accounting software and the unified ledger are built from overlapping but not identical inputs. Where the two report the same revenue, everything downstream is on solid ground. Where they do not, the gap is shown with the amount attached rather than resolved silently.
Reading a difference
A gap between the ledger and your accounting software usually means one of three things:
Something is in one and not the other. A transaction the bank reported that never reached your books, or a manual entry in your books with no bank movement behind it.
Something is counted twice. The same event arriving through two connected systems and recorded as two.
A timing difference, which resolves on its own.
The first two are worth chasing. The third is worth ignoring, and the way to tell them apart is whether the gap persists — see books versus bank variance.
Why the ledger is used rather than your accounting software
Reports come from the ledger, and your accounting software's figures are treated as a second opinion.
That is deliberate. Presenting another system's numbers as the answer would mean repeating its errors back to you with more confidence than they deserve. Showing both, and naming the difference, is less tidy and more honest.
If nothing is here
No sources connected means every figure in Accounting is empty rather than zero. Connecting a bank is the single step that changes the most — see connecting your bank.