A company founded today, with AI, would not run a ten-day month-end close as an event. It would close continuously and reconcile the exceptions.
Find the reports, reconciliations and approval steps your Finance team can stop producing. ZeroBase reads GL events and reporting-portal logs, lists every recurring activity, shows what each costs and who still reads it, and stops for a named reviewer before anything changes.
Every management report produced monthly for more than twenty recipients, with its read count for the trailing twelve months.
Reconciliations that have not raised a difference above materiality in eight consecutive closes.
Close tasks whose predecessor finished more than three days earlier.
Approval steps in the payment chain that have never rejected an item.
Variance commentary produced for lines that moved less than two per cent.
Reports whose stated obligation cannot be matched to a rule in the policy register.
Every management report produced monthly for more than twenty recipients, with its read count for the trailing twelve months.
Reconciliations that have not raised a difference above materiality in eight consecutive closes.
Close tasks whose predecessor finished more than three days earlier.
Approval steps in the payment chain that have never rejected an item.
Variance commentary produced for lines that moved less than two per cent.
Reports whose stated obligation cannot be matched to a rule in the policy register.
Find the close work nobody asked for.
Recurring management reporting, intercompany reconciliation, month-end close and the approval chains around them. Describe the function and ZeroBase finds the activities, not a process map.
01 · Inventory
Every recurring activity, from the ledger.
248 activities in one Finance function, each built from GL, close-calendar and reporting-portal events. Ask in plain language and get the list in minutes, with cost, capacity and demand on every row.
Every management report produced monthly for more than twenty recipients, with its read count for the trailing twelve months.
Found 34 recurring reports in scope · 7 with no rule located
Board variance commentaryACT-052€96,000 · 1,450 h · 12 readers
Evidenced
A3
Intercompany reconciliationACT-108€142,000 · 1,900 h · no difference in 8 closes
Contested
A4
Weekly cash forecastACT-077€71,000 · 900 h · 2 readers
Evidenced
A5
Treasury exposure reviewACT-029€150,000 · 1,600 h · weekly · CFO
Verified
A6
Statutory reportingACT-018€220,000 · 2,600 h · regulator · IFRS
Verified
+ 28 more activities
02 · Evidence
Every signal behind a recommendation.
Demand, obligation, cost and capacity, each with the system, query and period it came from. A contradiction stays visible instead of being averaged into a score.
ACT-041
Monthly performance packFinance · S. Chen · €186,000 a year
Redesign
Key signals
Demand
3 recurring readers in 12 months; 41 on the distribution list.
reporting-portal · access.log
Obligation
Owner states a board requirement; no matching rule located in the policy register.
policy-registerboard minutes · 2024 to 2026
Cost and capacity
€186,000 a year; 2,240 hours across four preparers.
GL · COcapacity
03 · Ranking
Ranked by what it costs and who still needs it.
Bring the activity list or start from the systems. ZeroBase scores every activity on its evidence, explains the score, and routes anything consequential to a named reviewer.
Ranked by evidence score
Activity
Owner
Cost / year
Demand
Recommendation
Score
Intercompany reconciliation
M. Aydın
€142,000
internal
Remove
94
Monthly performance pack
S. Chen
€186,000
3 readers
Redesign
91
Budget variance commentary
A. Hocaoğlu
€96,000
12 readers
Redesign
86
Weekly cash forecast
S. Chen
€71,000
2 readers
Redesign
82
Travel pre-approval
D. Şındıraç
€64,000
4,100 / yr
Automate
79
Supplier master cleanse
M. Aydın
€78,000
ad hoc
Remove
71
Treasury exposure review
S. Chen
€150,000
weekly · CFO
Keep
68
Statutory reporting
S. Chen
€220,000
regulator
Keep
64
Decisions land where the work already lives.
Every decision leaves with its evidence, its owner and its review date, and goes back into the systems the function runs on.
Microsoft 365
Excel
Power BI
CSV
Compatible target categories · connector coverage is in design-partner validation and no live production integration is claimed.
Put one close under a clean sheet.
Start with a single reporting cycle. Leave with a decision model you can reopen, not a slide that says the close is efficient.
Microsoft 365
capacity
A Future Innovation Agents product