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Close & Reporting
How fast the books close, how clean they are, and how much of it is still manual.
This family covers: Days to close, audit adjustments, manual handoffs between close and reporting, reviewer coverage.
The benchmarks
| Benchmark | Median | Top quartile | Interquartile range | Unit & direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close · days to close the books | 6 | 4 | 5–8 | days · lower is better |
One connected journey — Understand, Assess, Implement
Three questions, in the order finance leaders actually ask them — understand the change, assess your own position, then find the partner who can deliver it. Each step answers one and hands you to the next.
Finance Transformation Intelligence
What is changing in the finance function, and what the best organisations do about it.
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What that means for your organisation specifically — your position, your highest-impact move.
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Who helps you actually deliver it — a curated network of finance transformation partners.
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The Executive Finance Assessment places your organisation against these distributions and turns the gap into a costed, defensible next move.
Begins with a free Executive Brief — about five minutes, anonymous, no account. Full assessment €59, one-time. It complements the research; it does not replace it.