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CK's Bakery scaled from one outletto 100+, without slowing down finance.

A fast-growing bakery chain uses the AccEase Lease Management Tool to bring every new store on-book the day the lease is signed, including rapid Bengaluru expansion.

Outlets live
100+
New stores planned (12M)
25+
Standard applied
Ind AS 116
New store on-book
Same day
Lease portfolio
CK's Bakery · South India
Active
Active leases
108
Cities
6
Avg term
8.1 yr
New store intake10 minutes · on-book today
Bengaluru · Koramangala9-yr term
Rent-free months2
Security deposit₹14.2 L
Day-one journalPosted
This month's close108 leases
ROU depreciation posted
Done
Interest unwinding batch
Done
Rent revision · 2 leases
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The challenge

Expansion moving faster than Excel could keep up.

CK's Bakery started in 2015 with a single outlet in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai. Ten years later it operates 100+ bakery cafés across South India, with a stated plan to open 25+ outlets in Bengaluru alone over the next 12 months.

Every new opening meant repeating the same work in Excel: select an IBR appropriate to the city and tenure, present-value the cash flows, build the ROU schedule, layer in the security deposit, and post the day-one journal. Doing this twice a quarter was manageable. Doing it twenty times a quarter was not.

The controller's hard line: lease accounting must not be the thing that slows down a store opening.

Aggressive rollout

25+ new stores a year makes Excel-based lease accounting a bottleneck.

Per-store Excel work

Every opening was a full IBR, schedule, and journal cycle in Excel.

Security deposit

Present-valued separately in Excel, fragile and error-prone.

Rent revisions

Rent escalations and term changes rebuilt from scratch each time.

The shift

Lease intake as part of the store-opening checklist.

A 10-minute intake in AccEase captures contract start, term, escalation schedule, rent-free months, and security deposit. The day-one journal is ready the same day.

Before AccEase
With AccEase
1 to 2 weeks to bring a new store on-book
Same-day lease recognition from the intake form
IBR selection and schedule build repeated in Excel for every opening
Intake once, schedule generated automatically
Separate tabs for security deposit present-valuing
Deposit modelled alongside the main lease
Rent revisions and term changes recomputed from scratch
Handled as an Ind AS 116 modification in minutes
Disclosure pack rebuilt every quarter
Generated from the live schedule in minutes
Product used

AccEase Lease Management Tool

Purpose-built for Ind AS 116. Schedules, journals, modifications, and disclosures, from one workspace.

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