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The reporting pack stops being rebuilt every close
The close ends and the reporting still has days left in it: the same management pack rebuilt by hand, the same variances keyed off exports, the same BI seats paying to chart a file finance already assembled. We build a clean data layer under the close and put an agent on top that builds the cut you ask for in plain language, so the pack is a question, not a rebuild.
Most of the close is spent rebuilding a pack that changes little month to month
The numbers land near the end of the close, and then reporting starts: pull the exports, rebuild the master file, key the variances against budget, refresh the same cuts by cost center, by entity, by account. The pack looks close to last month's, but it gets assembled from scratch every time.
Then the same file gets loaded into a BI tool to chart, and whoever needs a cut the pack does not already have waits on the one person who owns the report. The exceptions the manual assembly buries, a payment run twice or a code that does not roll up, rarely make the pack at all.
We clean the ledger once, and the pack becomes a question you ask
We build the data layer under the close first. The ledger, sub-ledgers, and budget are reached, normalized, and made queryable, and each period appends to the same layer instead of being rebuilt from exports. The mappings a team used to run by hand in a spreadsheet become real data.
An agent sits on that layer and answers in plain language. Ask for actuals against budget by cost center, or spend by vendor for the month that closed, and it builds the cut live, with no report to prepare first. That is what stands in for the per-seat BI license. A person still reads the number and signs the pack.
A standing audit works exceptions as a queue, during the close, not after it
Alongside the reporting, an audit runs continuously against the same layer for duplicate payments, split POs, and off-policy spend. The exceptions surface as a queue while the period is still open, so a duplicate gets caught before the pack goes out rather than in next quarter's review.
The team stops combing the ledger for what looks wrong and starts working a list of what the audit already found.
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Start with the pack you rebuild every close
Show us the reporting pack and where its data lives today, and we scope the build, or email hello@mcintoshsystems.com.