Your Reality Check result

Cost and timing at month end

Purchase orders approved after the fact, invoices posted to the wrong month, manual entries with no trail. Cost lands in the wrong period and margin moves with it.

Why it breaks

Broken foundations

You said you could not answer this one without asking around. That is the finding. A number nobody can trace on the spot is a number nobody has tested, and it is usually carrying something.

Three questions to ask your team

Ask these before you commit anything else.

On the last close, how many purchase orders were approved after the goods were received?
Which date decides the period a cost lands in: the PO, the receipt, or the invoice? Ask each of purchasing, receiving and accounting separately.
If those three answers are not the same, how many months back does the difference go?

Ask them separately, not in a meeting. Agreement in a room is not the same as agreement in the data.

What the answer looks like

The month a CFO actually has to explain

What in this month needs my attention, and what is it worth?

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If you want it settled

Focused Diagnostic

The true number, what the wrong one is costing in dollars, and the first fix

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