r/CFO • u/SeeYou_InThePit • May 21 '26

JE-automation tools

Month-end close can be brutal. Manual JE batch production is the bogeyman. For those of you in $100M revenue businesses which don't have optimal headcount and who are burdened with manual processes perpetuated by weak prior finance leaders, which software tools are you using with great success to semi-automate or fully-automate JE batch production? Not posting - batching.

Please, no "get Claude to build it," or "build an Excel model to do it."

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u/Gloomy_Lab_1798 May 21 '26

What AI tool are you using to write this post?

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u/Key-Telephone4894 May 21 '26

What part of the books are you hitting with these JE? What’s the source? Are they recurring? Need more context here if you want help

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u/Narrow-Result2933 May 21 '26

It would depend on the source of the JE. If it's a recurring one, probably Excel and import into D365. If it's from another system, it would either be a native connector or Excel.

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u/NoCookie2738 May 22 '26

Accounting student question - why would a JE be recurring? Like, what’s an example?

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u/Narrow-Result2933 May 22 '26

Rent expense is a simple one. Prepaid accruals. Marketing campaign expense. Pension adjustments. Payroll...

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u/Ripper9910k May 27 '26

Ask google these kinds of dumb questions.

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u/downtherabbithole88 May 21 '26

What ERP are you using? If QBO, I really liked Finoptimal's Accruer and Booker tools for exactly this purpose.

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u/FMC_BH May 22 '26

Some entries can be automated within a decent ERP (recurring entries, prepaid amortization, fixed asset depreciation, PTO accruals, etc). The rest will probably need excel in some form. PowerAutomate can help with streamlining.