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The diagnostic · $400 · five working days

Nine numbers your accounting system doesn't give you.

Cost per invoice, discount capture, days to the ledger — on your own data, against published figures.

Your payables, against published figures example report · your own data
MeasureYouTypicalReading
Cost of putting one invoice into the ledger $6.34$9.40 Ahead
Invoices needing a person to intervene 12%22% Ahead
Days from invoice date to the ledger 79.2 Ahead
Early-payment discounts you take 1%15% Worth fixing
Four of nine rows shown. Benchmarks: Ardent Partners, APQC.
What you get

Four things, in writing, five working days later.

9

Measures against published figures

Cost per invoice, discount capture, days to the ledger. The page to keep — it goes to a bank, a board or an accountant as it is.

16

Figures off your own ledger

Money to recover, money leaving unchecked, and how your payables actually move. Your numbers, not a range and not an industry average.

8

Controls, checked one by one

The checks that catch a bill paid twice, a supplier's bank account changed on the document, a charge above the order. You see which of them run.

3

Answers, not one

Money you can act on this week. Controls to close. Whether automating the typing pays — with the payback and the monthly price.

Walked through with you on a call, then sent as a file. Yours to keep whatever you decide next.

What is in it

Sixteen figures, off your own documents.

Only the first two can come back empty.

Money to recover

  • Payments made twice, with both records on the line may be empty
  • Credit notes a supplier issued you that were never applied may be empty
  • The same supplier on your master twice — how the first one happens
  • Discounts for early payment printed on your invoices and not taken

Money leaving unchecked

  • Invoices you are about to pay that should not be paid — already paid once, bank details changed on the document, billed over the order
  • Spend with no purchase order behind it
  • Invoices that stop just short of the amount where a second person has to approve
  • Standing payments that quietly went up during the year

How your payables move

  • Whether your money leaves earlier or later than the dates you agreed with suppliers
  • Which suppliers you pay late, by name, and how often
  • How long an invoice sits before it is keyed, and the month-end pile-up
  • What share of your money leaves by paper cheque

What automating would do

  • The share that would post untouched, with its margin of error
  • How often each field is read exactly as printed — supplier, number, date, amount, bank account
  • Hours a month on typing, what they cost, and the payback in months
  • Invoices that look like duplicates but are not — the same supplier billing the same amount again, passed rather than flagged
One of the sixteen, in full

The check for payments made twice.

We compare twelve months of your payments against each other — the same supplier however it is spelled, the same invoice number with or without its prefix. You get a list with both payments on the line and the reason they match, so your bookkeeper can confirm each one and ask that supplier for a credit note.

Payments check — example output 12 months · 1,840 payments scanned
Atlas Industrial Supply
re-issued under a new number — same amount and date already paid
4,215.00
Meridian Steel & Alloy
same amount and date — vendor spelled differently on the second record
9,880.00
Blue Harbor Packaging
re-issued under a new number after the original was paid
1,150.00
46 recurring payments identified and excluded To confirm and claim back: 15,245.00

Illustrative figures — your report contains your own payments. If your history is clean the report says so in writing, and the other fifteen figures are unaffected.

Why your own system does not catch these

Your system compares literally

A real repeat almost never matches literally — a different spelling of the supplier, a prefix on the number, a split amount. We match the names first, so the pair becomes visible.

Rent is not a duplicate

Regular payments are recognised and removed, and the report says how many — so what reaches you is short enough to actually check.

Nothing found is an answer

A clean history, in writing, that your controls work. We are not paid by the line, so the list is never padded.

What happens next

The same check, before money leaves.

The diagnostic looks at payments already made. The build does the same checks on each new document, before it is paid. Anything that should not go out is held for a person, with the reason on the line.

Payment held

Already paid

The same invoice arriving a second time, under any number.

Payment held

Bank details changed

Real supplier, real invoice, an account that isn't theirs.

Look at it

Above the order

Billed more than was ordered, beyond the tolerance you set.

Contact us

Start with a call.

The diagnostic is $400 on a contract that states what you get and by when. You send one month of invoices and three exports out of your accounting system; five working days later we walk through the report together.

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