For an owner or finance lead preparing next year: revenue and costs by month and by team, built from this year's figures and each budget owner's drivers, every assumption written down, capital purchases listed apart, the whole checked against cash, and the questions leadership has to settle.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Before the external auditors arrive, your controller holds one audit pack: every request with its owner, date, document and status, the control evidence they will test, last year's findings and what was done, and draft answers to the questions they will ask. People approve everything before it goes.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Before the month is signed off, your bookkeeper holds one bank reconciliation for one account: every statement line matched to the books or explained, every open item aged, a proof that the two balances agree, and the entries still to make. Nothing is posted until a person approves.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Before the month's results go to management, the finance lead gets written commentary on every line that moved past the threshold: the figures, the budget owner's explanation marked confirmed or to be confirmed, a bridge from budget to actual, and the questions still open. No cause is invented.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Before the business insurance renews, the owner gets one pack: every policy with insurer, limits, deductibles, premium and dates; renewal terms beside expiring ones, every change marked; what changed in the business; claims; and questions for the broker. The broker and the owner decide all cover.
Primary function: Procurement and suppliers
When a card dispute lands, the store owner or finance lead gets one pack: the dispute matched to its order, the evidence its reason calls for marked found or missing, a response drafted well inside the deadline, and the store's dispute ratio for the month. A person decides whether to contest and submits it.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
The billing coordinator gets every denied claim from the practice’s remittance export on one work list, sorted by kind of denial, appeal deadline and amount, with the paperwork each one needs and a short summary of where denials keep starting. Staff decide every appeal.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Before an invoice goes out, the billing coordinator has a summary the client can read: fees by timekeeper, task and phase, expenses and write-downs, tied to the pre-bill. Every entry that breaks the client's billing guidelines reaches the responsible attorney as a decision, with the amount at stake.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Each month, the finance lead gets a draft statement of what every creator has earned, worked from the store's orders export: commission under the programme's rules, flat fees, amounts carried under the minimum, and a payout list. A person approves it; finance pays.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Before a price below list goes to a customer, whoever approves it gets one page: the discount and what it costs in margin, every clause of your own written policy met or missed, who approves and in what order, and what the customer gives in return. A person decides; nothing is sent.
Primary function: Sales
For an owner or people lead at renewal: the broker's health plan options next to each other, with premiums split between company and employee, deductibles, out-of-pocket limits, network notes, the cost to the company and to a typical employee at low, middle and high use, and questions for the broker.
Primary function: People and HR
For a founder, people lead or finance lead preparing next year: every role and its cost by team, the new roles and backfills with their months, the fully loaded cost month by month against the budget, and what changes if revenue lands lower or higher. It plans roles and money, never decisions about named people.
Primary function: People and HR
Each month or quarter, the founder gets a drafted update for investors: the headline, key figures against plan and last period, cash and runway, wins, problems told plainly with what is being done, and specific asks. Every figure comes from the company's own reports. The founder approves and sends it.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
The responsible partner sees one matter whole: scope, phases against their dates, the budget against fees to date and the projected total, a red, amber or green status with the rule behind it, risks and next actions with owners. Built from the time export and the matter plan, never a view on the merits.
Primary function: Operations and process improvement
Every accepted matter goes into setup and billing with one checklist: the fields each system needs, the terms that drive the first invoice, the documents on file and an owner for every open item.
Primary function: Operations and process improvement
Before the month ends, your controller holds the whole close on one page: every task with its owner, its date and what it waits on, the chain that sets the close date, and each gap already written as a question. Entries are prepared for approval, never posted.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Every overdue invoice gets a follow-up drafted in your firm’s tone for its age and addressed from the right person, and every invoice that should not be chased is held with the reason written down.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Each month the bookkeeper gets every payout from the store's processors and marketplaces taken apart and tied to the bank: the orders, refunds, chargebacks and fees inside it, each fee checked against the agreed rate, every difference listed with its evidence. A person posts the entries and raises any dispute.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
Before prices change, the owner or finance lead gets one review: the margin on each product or service from the sales and cost exports, how costs have moved, what each proposed price does to sales and gross profit across a stated range of customer responses, and dated competitor prices. It recommends no price.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
After an import shipment lands, the owner or bookkeeper gets one worksheet: freight, duty, brokerage, insurance and inbound fees from the invoices spread over each product by a stated method, the landed unit cost beside the cost the store records, and the margin left. A person updates any cost.
Primary function: Supply chain and inventory
The controller gets every short payment, unmatched or ambiguous receipt, possible duplicate and disputed invoice on one list, each with its evidence and a proposed next step, before anything is applied on a guess.
Primary function: Finance and accounting
From a card statement or ledger export, the finance or operations lead gets every subscription on one register: what each costs a year, who owns it, what renews in the next 90 days, what looks unused, duplicated or orphaned, and the decisions to make. Nothing is cancelled or changed.
Primary function: Procurement and suppliers
Turn what your most experienced person does with the awkward cases into an exception register for one procedure. Once the owner approves it, every colleague handles those cases the way your best person does.
Primary function: Operations and process improvement
Before a model or schedule goes to a client, a lender or a board, the sender gets one report on it: every error value, short total, buried assumption and hidden row pinned to its cell, each with a fix or a question, and a plain list of what was not checked. Nothing in the workbook is changed.
Primary function: Finance and accounting