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- Function: Finance and accounting
- Function: Legal and contracts
- Industry: Manufacturing
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27 workflow templates, showing 1 to 24
Annual operating budget
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.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Asset replacement options comparison
When an aging asset has more than one proposed replacement or upgrade, the finance lead and the engineering owner get one workbook: the supplied costs, operating assumptions and lives on one basis, with price-basis gaps, unverified savings and open sensitivity questions marked. It recommends no spend.
- Starts it
- Finance analyst
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Audit preparation
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.
- Starts it
- Controller
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 9 outputs
Budget-versus-actual variance commentary
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.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Business insurance renewal review
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.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Business line investment review
For leadership with several business lines: each line set side by side on one basis (fit with strategy, finance-reviewed results, shared resources, open questions) and placed as invest, investigate or reduce commitment, for the leadership team to discuss and decide.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Carrier freight invoice check
The freight auditor gets a carrier invoice checked line by line against the shipment export and the rate confirmation: duplicate lines, rate differences and extra charges with no delivery or waiting-time record, each tied to its shipment. Accounts payable decides what to pay or dispute.
- Starts it
- Freight auditor
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Contract amendment trace
Before a question about a signed contract goes to counsel, the contracts manager has one dated history of the provision that matters: every signed document in order, each version quoted with its document and section, every gap marked, and a list for the lawyer to confirm. It never says which wording controls.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Contract renewal and notice register
From your signed agreements and amendments, the contracts manager gets a register for counsel to confirm: each term, renewal and notice clause quoted with its section, cancel-by and send-by dates proposed only under counsel's own counting rules, and the windows sorted by proposed send-by date. Nothing is sent.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Cost of poor quality worksheet
An owner or operations lead who senses that rework, scrap and returns are costly gets one worksheet: the failure costs already on record, sorted by category, with estimates, gaps and unresolved allocations listed. The owner decides what to fix first.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Discovery requests and commitments register
Through discovery, the litigation paralegal keeps one register for the handling attorney: each request and its response in the exact words served, the Bates ranges produced against it, every supplement promised in correspondence with its date as written, and the promises now overdue. The attorney decides what it means.
- Starts it
- Litigation paralegal
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 9 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Document production index and summaries
From a production review counsel has cleared, the paralegal prepares a draft for that counsel: an index of every document by Bates range, a short summary of each, every statement cited to its Bates page, missing documents and differing passages listed, and anything matching counsel's screen list held by number only.
- Starts it
- Paralegal
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 9 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Employee health plan comparison
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.
- Starts it
- People lead
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Estimate basis pack
An estimator pricing a job from drawings, takeoffs and supplier quotes gets one worksheet: every figure with its quantity source, rate source and date beside it, each exclusion listed and every gap already written as a scope question. The estimator verifies; the bid lead decides the figure.
- Starts it
- Estimator
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Inbound demand or claim intake record
When a demand, claim or subpoena arrives, the company's lawyer gets one intake record the same day: who sent it, what it asks, every date it states, the facts and citations it relies on, related matters, where the records are, and a question on keeping them. It rates nothing and recommends nothing.
- Starts it
- Legal operations coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Journal entry preparation
At month end, your bookkeeper hands the controller every proposed journal entry ready to review: balanced lines on accounts from your own chart, the arithmetic and the document behind each amount, whether it reverses, and who approves it. Nothing is posted until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Legal hold custodian tracker
Once counsel has issued a legal hold, your legal operations lead keeps one tracker for counsel: every custodian and system in counsel’s scope, who has acknowledged and who is overdue, who has left or changed role, the refresh date counsel set, and reminders copied from counsel’s own text for a person to send.
- Starts it
- Legal operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 3 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Payroll preparation and timesheet review
Before each payroll run, the owner gets one sheet built from the timesheet and roster exports: hours by person and type, every missing punch and odd entry raised as a question, and an estimated total. Nothing is keyed in, submitted or paid until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Payroll clerk
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Price change review
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.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Product configuration margin sheet
When sales prepares a quote for a product configuration, the commercial owner and finance lead get one worksheet: the quoted price, the costed bill of materials, assembly and freight, and the allocations, with every unquoted part, one-off charge and uncertain volume listed as an open assumption.
- Starts it
- Sales operations coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Production cost variance sheet
At period close the plant controller gets one sheet that separates material, labor and overhead differences from standard, by order and by product, with missing actuals and changed standards flagged. Each difference is a question for operations, never a cause.
- Starts it
- Plant controller
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Range margin by channel review
When a wholesale offer or a promotion changes the economics of a range, the finance lead gets a margin worksheet for every product in every channel, showing which cost layers are in each figure and which gaps are still open. It invents no cost and changes no price.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
SOP exception capture
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.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Stock count reconciliation
After a physical count, the bookkeeper and the warehouse or store lead get every item counted beside the quantity and value in the books, each difference in units and money, what to check for it, and the items to recount. Nothing is adjusted until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs