What is financial reporting automation?

It is producing the statutory report from a continuously updated, governed data model, so the close becomes a review step rather than weeks of manual assembly.

Does this replace our ERP or consolidation tool?

No. DECIMA sits on top of them, reading the data they already hold and adding governance and evidence.

How do auditors work with it?

Auditors trace any reported figure to its source evidence directly, with every access logged.

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Financial reporting automation turns the close from assembly into review: the statutory report is produced by a governed model, and your team checks it instead of building it.

01The problem

The statutory report is assembled from exports, emails and tracked-changes documents, so the close is a coordination exercise in which every version is a chance for a number to slip out of step.

The problem: a financial close built on documents

Three costs of assembling the report by hand.

Version chaos

Numbers are copied between exports, decks and documents, and no one is certain which copy is current.

Manual tie-out

Every statement, note and cross-reference is checked by hand, again, after each round of edits.

The evidence hunt

Auditor questions send the team back through mailboxes and drives to reconstruct how a figure was produced.

The solution: DECIMA financial reporting automation

DECIMA produces the statutory report from the model, so assembly stops being the job.

Continuous close

Data is ingested and mapped through the period, so period end is a review rather than a rebuild.

Statements that tie themselves

Notes, primary statements and cross-references recalculate together, so a late change cannot leave a stale figure behind.

Evidence attached to the number

Every figure keeps its source, transformation and approval, so audit requests are answered without a hunt.

How Financial Reporting runs on the engine

Five stages that run continuously — not a quarterly scramble reassembled by hand.

01
Ingest
Governed connectors pull ledgers, sub-ledgers and source systems into the engine, with every field traced back to where it came from.
02
Model
The engine maps accounts, entities and disclosure requirements for Financial Reporting into one live model instead of a set of linked files.
03
Draft
Narrative, tables and tagging are generated from the model, so a change in the numbers rewrites the output rather than the reverse.
04
Validate
Rule checks, tie-outs and control tests run inline as the draft forms, flagging breaks at the point they appear.
05
Sign off
Reviews, approvals and evidence are captured as work happens, so the audit trail for Financial Reporting is complete the moment you file.

What changes

The measurable difference once Financial Reporting stops being a manual assembly job.

01
Period end becomes a review of continuously mapped data rather than a rebuild from exports.
02
Statements, notes and cross-references recalculate together, so late changes cannot leave stale figures behind.
03
Every number carries its source and approval, so audit requests are answered from the system.

Questions teams ask

Straight answers about running Financial Reporting on an evidence-first engine.

Related workloads

Other reporting work that runs on the same engine and the same data model.

Turn the close from assembly into review.

See how DECIMA produces the statutory report from a governed, continuously updated model.

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