What accounting modules does Yardi include for commercial properties?
Yardi’s commercial accounting suite is built around a central general ledger with specialized modules feeding into it. The modules most commercial operators rely on are GL, accounts payable, accounts receivable, lease administration, CAM reconciliation, percentage rent, tenant billing, bank reconciliation, budgeting, and financial reporting.
The general ledger is the core. Every transaction from the other modules posts to the GL automatically, which means your income statement and balance sheet stay current without re-keying data between systems. Entries carry property codes so you can report at the property level or roll everything up to the portfolio.
Accounts payable handles vendor bills, approvals, and check or ACH runs. Accounts receivable tracks tenant charges, payments, and aging. Both tie directly to the lease administration module, which stores the lease terms, rent schedules, escalations, option dates, and tenant contact information. Changes made in lease administration flow through to billing without you touching the GL manually.
CAM reconciliation is one of the reasons commercial operators choose Yardi in the first place. You set up expense pools, assign recoverable categories, configure tenant share calculations, and run year-end reconciliations that produce tenant statements and true-up billings. Percentage rent works similarly, pulling sales reports from tenants and calculating overage rent based on the breakpoints in each lease.
Tenant billing generates monthly charges for base rent, estimated CAM, real estate taxes, insurance, and any other pass-throughs defined in the lease. Bank reconciliation clears deposits and disbursements against the bank statement and flags differences.
Budgeting lets you build property-level operating budgets and reforecasts, then compare actual results against budget in the reporting module. Financial reporting produces property-level and consolidated income statements, balance sheets, rent rolls, aged receivables, and cash flow reports. Most operators customize the report layouts once and then run them on a recurring schedule.
The modules work together well, but only if the initial setup is correct. Chart of accounts structure, property and lease coding, recovery pool definitions, and report layouts all affect what comes out the other end. A sloppy implementation produces reports you can’t trust, which defeats the point of running Yardi in the first place.
Dennis has hands-on Yardi experience from his corporate real estate roles, including a full migration from Excel into Yardi at a development firm. If you need Yardi implementation support or ongoing bookkeeping services in Pasadena for a commercial portfolio already running on the platform, that background translates directly to the work.
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