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Where revenue leaks: 12 places to look this quarter
Most companies lose a slice of revenue they already earned. It hides in prices, discounts, contracts and billing. Here are twelve places to look, and the data that shows each one.
Vendor master hygiene: the quiet control behind clean payments
Duplicate vendors, stale bank details and missing tax data cause duplicate payments, fraud and compliance problems. A clean vendor master prevents all three. A practical guide to cleaning it and keeping it clean.
Ten checks to run before you close the month
Most close problems are found after the books are closed, when fixing them is slow and visible. These ten data checks catch the common ones while there is still time to correct them.
Benford’s law in practice: a simple test that points to unusual numbers
In many real-world sets of numbers, the first digit is far more often 1 than 9. When a ledger breaks that pattern, it is worth a look. How the test works, where it helps and where it misleads.
AI agents in finance: what they can do today, and what still needs you
AI agents can now gather data, run checks and draft the next step across several systems. In finance that is useful and risky in equal measure. A practical look at where they help, where they don't, and how to start.
Leave clients stronger: self-sufficiency as a design goal
Many service models quietly depend on the client needing them forever. CoSaaS is designed the other way: every engagement should leave your team more capable and less dependent on us.
Gross-to-net: why every deduction deserves a second look
Between the list price and the cash you bank sit rebates, chargebacks, returns and promotions. Each one was agreed for a reason. Some are paid twice, late or on the wrong basis.
Duplicate payments: how much is normal, and how to stop them
Every accounts payable team pays some invoices twice. The useful questions are how many, why, and whether your controls would notice. Here is how to find them and keep them from coming back.
Continuous controls monitoring: a buyer’s guide
Continuous controls monitoring promises to test every transaction, every day. Before you buy, know which controls to start with, what an alert should look like and who will act on it.
People stay in charge: designing human approval into autonomous workflows
Autonomous workflows can test, match and draft faster than any team. Deciding still belongs to people. Here is how to design approval into the flow so speed and accountability go together.
Know every vendor by what it does: TPRM beyond questionnaires
Third-party risk programmes run on questionnaires that vendors fill in once a year. The risk shows up somewhere else: in payments, bank changes, filings and the news. Here is how to watch it.
Paying MSMEs in 45 days: what Section 43B(h) means for your P&L
Under India’s Income-tax Act, late payments to micro and small suppliers can cost you the tax deduction for that year. Here is how the rule works in outline, and how to know which invoices are at risk before year end.
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Use cases from our own project work, anonymised, and scenarios that show the method: one problem, the checks we run, what they find.