Spreadsheet lineage and versioning
Which spreadsheet is the "real" one, who last changed it, and whether that's traceable at all.
Controls
Find fragile finance processes before they become audit or continuity problems.
Surface spreadsheet dependency, approval gaps, undocumented judgment, evidence collection effort and single-owner risk.
Guided intake today · Start without a connection
Where this diagnostic is today. Controls diagnostics may begin with guided intake and deepen during the Finance Operations Assessment. This is a structured questionnaire, not a connected scanner — we do not present a live system connection as available until one genuinely is, for your stack.
Where risk hides
Six processes where control risk hides
Guided intake asks about each of these — you don't need a system connection to get a directional read.
Approval and review evidence
Whether an approval actually happened is provable, not just assumed because a task is marked done.
Access-review support
How much manual effort it takes to answer "who can touch this system" when someone asks.
Audit request fulfillment
How long it takes to pull evidence for an audit request, and how much of it is manual reconstruction.
Policy exception handling
Whether exceptions to a stated policy are logged and reviewed, or just quietly allowed.
Key-person and backup ownership
Whether critical control steps have a documented backup owner, or depend on one person being available.
Confidence, capped honestly
What a guided-intake-only Controls finding looks like
A questionnaire-only finding is capped at low confidence by design — wording never implies more certainty than the evidence supports.
Demonstration finding · guided intake only
Illustrative
One person's spreadsheet is the uncontrolled system of record
Based on your reported process, a key reconciliation lives in a personal spreadsheet with no version history or documented backup owner.
ReportedLow confidenceNeeds real data
- Process
- Spreadsheet lineage & ownership
- Evidence
- Guided intake only
- Estimated impact
- Directional only
- Confidence
- Low
- Complexity
- Unknown until validated
- Next step
- Deepen in assessment
Illustrative — not a customer result. Guided-intake-only findings are capped at low confidence; verified findings require reviewing the actual spreadsheet and control evidence, gathered under the Finance Operations Assessment.
Honest scope
What a Controls review can — and can't — tell you today
What it can tell you
- Where spreadsheet dependency and single-owner risk concentrate, by your own report
- Which approval or evidence gaps come up most often
- A directional read on audit-readiness friction
- Whether the pattern is worth validating in an assessment
What it cannot tell you yet
- Whether a specific control genuinely fails a stated standard
- Whether a control should be removed rather than automated
- A guaranteed reduction in audit preparation time
- Anything requiring direct review of your actual spreadsheets or systems — not yet automated
Four places finance friction hides
Controls is one of four pillars
Close, Cash and Clarity use the same evidence model. Start wherever the pain is loudest.
Start with controls
Find the fragile process before it becomes an audit finding.
Start a Controls review today, or email us to discuss early access and the Finance Operations Assessment.