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Use case of the day · October 23, 2026 · The Close

Collect reconciliations, journal approvals, checklist completion and review sign-offs into one indexed pack for close sign-off and audit requests, flagging missing items.

Who it's for

Built for the controller and the accounting team.

What it could move
  • Cycle time
  • Exception loops
  • First-time-right rate
  • Impact: Medium
  • Ease: Medium
  • Prep: Some
Area: All areas
Area
Industry: All industries
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  • Controls

    Control monitoring

    Automated tests run over every transaction, not a handful of spot checks. They look for risky journal entries, users with conflicting access, unexpected vendor master changes and payments that skipped approval. Each exception goes to its owner with the evidence attached. Issues get fixed in days, and the audit trail builds itself.

    • Impact:High
    • Ease:Medium
  • Spend

    Supplier management

    New vendors enter their own tax, bank and contact details through a secure portal. The system checks the tax ID, verifies the bank account, screens sanctions lists and looks for duplicates before anyone touches the ERP. AP reviews one clean record and approves it. The vendor is created automatically, with every check on file.

    • Impact:High
    • Ease:Medium
  • Budget vs Actual

    Forecasting

    Each month the system pulls closed actuals and the latest pipeline, headcount and usage drivers. A model builds a driver-based baseline forecast for the next 12 to 18 months and writes a first pass at variance commentary. FP&A reviews the baseline, adjusts what the model cannot know, and publishes. The team spends its time on judgment, not spreadsheet plumbing.

    • Impact:Medium
    • Ease:Medium
  • Spend

    Accounts payable

    Flag likely duplicates before posting by comparing supplier, amount, date and invoice number, including near-matches such as reformatted numbers or re-sent PDFs. A person decides on every flag.

    • Impact:High
    • Ease:High
  • Spend

    Accounts payable

    Extract supplier, invoice number, dates, amounts, tax and line detail from PDF and e-mailed invoices into the AP system, with low-confidence fields sent to a person for review.

    • Impact:High
    • Ease:High
  • Billing

    Receivables and collections

    Read remittance advices and bank references, match receipts to open invoices, and post confident matches; partial, short or unidentified payments go to a person.

    • Impact:High
    • Ease:High

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