Category: Finance Technology & Tools

Practical tips, frameworks, and tools that make Finance work smarter.

  • A Real Use Case for AI A vendor sends monthly invoices as PDFs. Not summaries—full transaction-level detail. All the data you want, hermetically sealed inside a document designed primarily for printing and filing, not analysis. The data is valuable. The data is locked.   Hey, why not just demand the vendor send the invoices directly…

  • Early in my career—long before AI, cloud ERPs, or any notion that accounting could be automated out of existence – I found myself staring at a wall of inventory reports at Johnson & Johnson. Finished goods. LIFO. Dozens of layers accumulated year after year because inventory levels always seemed to rise. Cost indexes went up,…