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Why month-end takes so long
Step 1 — Connect every account
The bottleneck problem
Approval rules written for ten people break at fifty. Everything ends up in one inbox, and that inbox belongs to the finance lead.
Tier by risk
Let small, known payments pass automatically, and keep human review for anything new or large.
Amira Haddad · CFO, Northwind Studio
Delegate with limits
Give budget owners approval rights within their budget
Escalate only above a threshold
Review the rules once a quarter
Keep the audit trail
Every automatic approval should still record which rule allowed it.
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Tip: if a rule hasn’t rejected anything in six months, raise its threshold.
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