Tag: automation
All the articles with the tag "automation".
Lotus 1-2-3 was finance's first automation. AI is the second.
The spreadsheet moved the ceiling on how much finance work one person could do, and we forgot it was ever automation. AI is moving the ceiling again. Nine things it already does inside finance teams, with pictures, a place to start, and a test for telling a good build from a dangerous one.
12 days to 8 hours: what actually moved the close
I rebuilt a clinical-stage biotech's month-end around Anaplan and scheduled data loads, and the close went from 12 working days to under 8 hours. The list of what moved it is mostly boring. That's the lesson.