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Accruals are a tax on finance teams. They don’t exist because controllers love them — they exist because systems force teams to wait. Wait for approvals. Wait for signatures. Wait until everyone has blessed an invoice before it can hit the general ledger.
That wait time has always been the price of control. Until now.
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The old way: control over speed
Month-end is supposed to bring clarity, but too often it brings bottlenecks. Invoices get stuck in approval chains, leaving the accounting team with two bad options:
- Delay the close until approvals are finished, or
- Book accruals and spend time unwinding them later.
Neither option is great. The first slows down reporting; the second clutters the ledger with extra entries. Both drain time at the very moment finance needs clean, timely numbers.
The new way: speed without sacrificing control
Centime’s updates to AP automation remove this trade-off. Teams can now post invoices before the approval workflow is completed, ensuring the ledger reflects reality on schedule.
Approvals still happen. Controls remain in place. The only change is sequence: reporting no longer waits on approvals. The finance team posts when they need to, while the approval chain continues in parallel.
This flexibility is configurable at the client level, so each organization can decide whether to adopt it.
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What this unlocks for CFOs and Controllers
- On-time closes. Get financials finalized when leadership expects them, even if a few invoices are still waiting on sign-off.
- Cleaner ledgers. Reduce the reliance on accruals and the reversal entries that follow.
- Fewer fire drills. AP teams don’t need to chase down last-minute approvals just to hit reporting deadlines.
- Confidence in numbers. Approvals still flow through as designed; compliance and oversight remain intact.
A simple shift, a big impact
The best product improvements aren’t flashy — they solve a stubborn friction point that finance leaders deal with month after month. Decoupling posting from approvals is one of those changes. It keeps reporting timely, cuts out unnecessary accrual work, and gives CFOs the visibility they need without compromise.
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