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Key Takeaways A payment can land in your bank account and still do nothing for your business. Until someone works out which customer sent it and which invoices it covers, that money sits in a suspense account, the invoices stay open, and the customer looks overdue on a balance they’ve ...

Key Takeaways For most finance teams, the month-end close is where problems that were invisible all month suddenly become urgent. Bank reconciliation – comparing internal records against bank statements – is the control that catches discrepancies, bank errors, and fraud before they reach the books. It’s also one of the ...

Key Takeaways Deductions at Scale Small customer deductions can look harmless when reviewed one transaction at a time. Across thousands of invoices, however, they create a very different financial problem. Finance teams must investigate reasons, validate claims, issue credits, update records, and pursue invalid deductions. When values are low, the ...

Every business must make sure the transactions in its financial statements match what’s happening in its bank accounts. On paper, that sounds simple. In practice, finance teams spend days – sometimes weeks – each month comparing statements line by line, chasing down mismatches, and hoping nothing slips through. Cashbook builds ...

Key Takeaways Mergers and acquisitions put immediate pressure on finance operations. Different banks, ERPs, teams, and approval habits all have to work together, often with no transition period. For Finance Managers and AR Managers, the hard part isn’t combining reports. It’s building daily processes that hold up without disrupting collections, ...

Sometimes, when transaction volumes doubles. Finance teams may experience more work without a corresponding increase in headcount. With an upturn in revenue and customers volumes, Finance teams can work harder but do not necessarily have more resources to work with consequently can suffer from backlog, longer month-end close and higher control risks.

In November 2026, a significant change is set to take place in European and cross-border payments: the removal of unstructured postal addresses from key payment schemes and message formats. This shift, part of the Standards Release 2026, aims to enhance data quality and processing efficiency.

Key Takeaways Why ERP Integration Matters More Than Standalone Finance Automation Manual finance work rarely stays inside finance. A spreadsheet delay turns into an IT ticket. A posting error triggers a rollback request. A disconnected tool becomes one more system IT has to support, monitor, and explain. Finance automation shouldn’t ...

Cashbook write-back postings integrate with both M3 CloudSuite and M3 on premise. Journals are created and worked with through the Cashbook application to apply cash.  These journals may be automatically created through bank file uploads or manually created. Using scheduled jobs, M3 provides Customer, Invoice and FX data that is ...