Your accountant shouldn't spend Friday afternoons typing invoices.
Supplier invoices keyed into the accounting system by hand
Incoming supplier invoices arrive as PDFs attached to emails or as paper delivered with goods. Someone opens each one, reads the line items, and types the data — supplier, amount, VAT, category — into the accounting system.
- Volume
- dozens to hundreds of invoices per month
- By hand
- 1-2 full days per month of finance time; Friday afternoons burned on data entry
Expense receipts collected, photographed, and re-typed
Employees spend money on the company card or out of pocket — travel, meals, supplies, fuel — and submit receipts at month-end by email or as paper. Someone checks each one, enters the amount and category into a spreadsheet or the accounting tool, and reconciles against the card statement.
- Volume
- 50-200 receipts per month
- By hand
- 1-2 days per month of finance time; late submissions delay month-end close
Overdue payments chased by phone and email
Customers who haven't paid by the due date are chased one by one — finance pulls a list and calls or emails each customer. Older overdue items sometimes slip below the radar until year-end.
- Volume
- weekly chasing cycle; dozens of customers per cycle
- By hand
- half a day per week of finance time; cash collected later than it should be
Month-end reports assembled by hand from multiple tools
At the close of each month someone pulls numbers from the accounting system, bank statements, payroll, and spreadsheets to build the management report — revenue, cash position, margin, overdue receivables. The assembly takes days and the numbers are stale by the time leadership reads them.
- Volume
- monthly
- By hand
- 2-4 days per month of finance time; leadership decisions on old data
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