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35 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
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
Bank reconciliation preparation
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.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 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
Client schedule to ledger reconciliation
When a client's subledger schedule and trial balance disagree, the responsible accountant gets one worksheet: both balances proved, every timing difference and unexplained entry listed, and the next step for each. Nothing is posted; every explanation waits for a person.
- Starts it
- Accountant
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Corporate action deadline brief
When a custodian notice announces an event on securities your firm holds, operations has one brief: the affected holdings, the options as the notice quotes them, every deadline, the instructions on file and what is still unconfirmed. It recommends nothing and submits nothing.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Discount request review
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.
- Starts it
- Sales lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
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
Engagement margin review
Midway or at close, the partner and finance lead get one worksheet for an engagement: recorded time, agreed fee, billed to date and supplied costs by workstream, the gaps that limit it, and the questions the team must answer. No cost rate is invented.
- Starts it
- Finance analyst
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Funder report draft
Before a funder report is due, the grants manager gets a draft written to the funder's own questions, with every number tied to a record, an index of the evidence behind each statement and a list of what is still unanswered. People verify it, approve it and submit it.
- Starts it
- Grants manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Headcount plan
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.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Household fee check
On the fee review date, the billing owner gets a fee check by account and household that applies the firm's own agreed schedules and approved waivers to the valuation files, with draft invoice lines, differences against custodian debits and every doubtful account kept apart for review.
- Starts it
- Billing owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
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
Matter budget and status summary
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.
- Starts it
- Matter lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Matter closing checklist preparation
When the handling lawyer flags a matter for closure, the firm's closing checklist is filled from the matter record: final billing as recorded, open tasks, unreturned items and the handoffs billing and records must accept.
- Starts it
- Operations assistant
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Matter-opening checklist preparation
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.
- Starts it
- Firm administrator
- Brings
- document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Month-end close checklist
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.
- Starts it
- Controller
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Outside-counsel invoice questions
When a law firm’s invoice arrives, legal operations has one worksheet ready: every line set against the agreed rates, the approved matter budget and the company’s own billing guidelines, each difference written as a neutral question for the firm. Nothing is sent, paid or rejected until people decide.
- Starts it
- Legal operations manager
- Brings
- export, document
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Overdue-invoice follow-up preparation
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.
- Starts it
- Billing coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 3 outputs
Prebill exception review
Before the billing attorney opens a prebill, the billing coordinator has every awkward entry marked: rates that differ from the firm's rate table, possible duplicates, entries outside the client's billing guidelines, unclear narratives and expenses without support, each sent to the person who acts next.
- Starts it
- Billing coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 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
Property owner report
A property manager gets the month's owner report drafted from the statements and logs they supply: occupancy, collections, open maintenance and the decisions the owner is asked to make, each statement traced to its source and each gap shown.
- Starts it
- Property manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs