Money in · Order-to-cashRolling out to the CFO cohort

Revenue leakage: from signed contract to billed invoice

Discounts that never expire, uplifts never applied, usage never billed. The contract says one thing and the billing system says another, and nobody compares the two.

42%

of companies experience revenue leakage

Source: MGI Research

3–5%

of revenue at stake, at minimum

Source: MGI Research

1–5%

of EBITDA lost every year

Source: MGI Research

How Aurus closes it

1Ingest contracts
Signed MSAs, order forms and amendments from your CLM, email or drive.
2Extract billable terms
Prices, uplifts, caps, minimums, overage rates and discount end dates.
3Read the bill run
Billing schedules and invoices from your billing system or ERP.
4Compare term by term
Every invoice line tested against the clause that governs it.
5Price the gap
Under-billing quantified per customer and per term, including what recurs.
6Route and rebill
Owner, SLA and evidence assigned; the corrected invoice drafted for approval.

Money in · Order-to-cashRolling out to the CFO cohort

Cash and DSO: unapplied cash, short-pays and slow collections

Payments land with remittances in PDFs and portals, short-pays get written off because disputing them takes too long, and collections works the same list every month while DSO creeps up.

$411K

of cash held by each day of DSO at $150M revenue

Arithmetic: revenue ÷ 365

+6.6%

rise in global DSO over five years

Source: PwC Working Capital Study 24/25

€1.84T

of excess working capital that could be freed up globally

Source: PwC Working Capital Study 25/26

How Aurus closes it

1Capture remittances
From email, PDF, lockbox files and customer portals.
2Match to open AR
Partial, consolidated and cross-entity payments included.
3Apply cash
Same-day application, posted to the ERP after approval.
4Classify short-pays
Pricing, shortage, damage or promotion, valid or not.
5Recover invalid deductions
Evidence packet built from contract, PO and proof of delivery.
6Prioritize collections
Worklist ranked by amount, age and payment behaviour.

Contracts · Terms and signaturesLive in CFO 360

Contract leakage: negotiated terms that never reach the numbers

Rebates, price caps, SLA credits and payment terms are won at the table and lost in execution. Invoices come in above contract, the signed version differs from the approved one, and amendments never reach billing or the ERP.

8.6%

average erosion of contract value

Source: World Commerce & Contracting / Deloitte, ROI of Contracting Excellence

~3% vs 20%+

best performers vs worst

Source: World Commerce & Contracting / Deloitte, ROI of Contracting Excellence

16%

of practitioners believe negotiations focus on the right topics

Source: World Commerce & Contracting, Contract Management report (2025)

How Aurus closes it

1Ingest agreements
Supply, customer and service contracts with every amendment.
2Compare to approved draft
A clause-level check catches late redlines before they cost you.
3Check signatory authority
Every signature tested against your delegation of authority.
4Extract obligations
Rebates, caps, credits, prices and payment terms, each with dates.
5Monitor performance
Spend, deliveries and invoices tracked against each term.
6Trigger the claim
Claim drafted with the clause and evidence the moment a term is earned.
7Push to systems
Amended terms sent to billing and the ERP with an owner.

Money out · Procure-to-payLive in CFO 360

Supplier overpayments: duplicates, mismatches and freight

Short shipments paid in full, duplicates that slip through with a new suffix, freight surcharges nobody audits. Each one is small; across thousands of invoices it is a material number.

0.8%–2%

of disbursements are duplicate or erroneous

Source: APQC Open Standards Benchmarking, Accounts Payable

$9.40 vs $2.78

cost per invoice, average vs best-in-class

Source: Ardent Partners, AP Metrics That Matter in 2025

22% vs 9%

invoice exception rate, average vs best-in-class

Source: Ardent Partners, AP Metrics That Matter in 2025

How Aurus closes it

1Capture the invoice
Any format, line by line, with the source text kept.
2Match PO and receipt
Line-level three-way match within the tolerances you set.
3Check price to contract
The negotiated price, not just the number on the PO.
4Scan for duplicates
Number variants, amounts, dates, vendors and systems.
5Audit freight
Rates, fuel, accessorials and free-time terms.
6Hold and route
Ranked by dollars at risk, explained in one line, sent to an owner.

Money out · Procure-to-payLive in CFO 360

Vendor and payment fraud: the email that looks right

A vendor asks to update bank details. The logo is right, the signature is right. One payment run later, the money is gone and recovery is a long shot.

79%

of organizations faced attempted or actual payments fraud in 2024

Source: AFP 2025 Payments Fraud and Control Survey

63%

cite business email compromise as the No. 1 avenue

Source: AFP 2025 Payments Fraud and Control Survey

22%

recovered three-quarters or more of the funds they lost

Source: AFP 2025 Payments Fraud and Control Survey

How Aurus closes it

1Watch the vendor master
Every bank, address and contact change is captured.
2Score the request
Sender domain, timing, bank country and pattern checked.
3Freeze the remit-to
Payments to changed details pause automatically.
4Verify out of band
Call-back to the contact of record, logged.
5Screen the payment run
New payees, unusual amounts and off-cycle releases flagged.
6Release with evidence
Approval recorded with the full verification trail.

Cash & close · Treasury and record-to-reportRolling out to the CFO cohort

The close and the audit: fast, clean and defensible

Subledger tie-outs, unsupported accruals and revenue judgments in spreadsheets. The close ends when everyone is too tired to find another difference, and the auditor finds the rest.

50%

of finance teams take six or more business days to close

Source: Ledge, Month-End Close Benchmarks 2025

94%

of teams still use Excel during the close

Source: Ledge, Month-End Close Benchmarks 2025

15%

of major restatements since 2004 involved revenue recognition

Source: Ideagen Audit Analytics, Financial Restatements

How Aurus closes it

1Bank to GL, daily
Cash differences surface the morning after they happen.
2Subledgers to GL
AP, AR, inventory and fixed assets tied out through the month.
3Test accrual support
Every accrual checked for documentation; gaps routed.
4Scan journals
Round-dollar, unusual and unreversed entries flagged.
5Review ASC 606
Contract terms read and the treatment evidenced clause by clause.
6Draft the flux
Period swings traced to the transactions behind them.
7Package for audit
Every entry linked to its source document and decision.

Cash & close · Treasury and record-to-reportRolling out to the CFO cohort

Liquidity and the 13-week cash forecast

Three bank portals, a treasury spreadsheet and yesterday’s guess. The 13-week forecast is stale before the first meeting of the day.

Daily

bank activity reconciled to the cash GL

What Aurus does

13 weeks

rolling forecast built from reconciled AR and AP

What Aurus does

3 scenarios

base, downside and covenant view, refreshed weekly

What Aurus does

How Aurus closes it

1Pull bank balances
All banks and entities, every morning.
2Reconcile to the GL
Differences explained before anyone relies on the number.
3Expected receipts
Built from matched AR and customer payment behaviour.
4Scheduled payments
Approved AP, payroll and debt service.
5Roll the 13 weeks
The forecast updates as actuals land.
6Show covenant headroom
Base, downside and covenant view, side by side.

Plan & control · FP&A, spend, complianceRolling out to the CFO cohort

Margin, forecast and the board pack

Why is gross margin down 140 basis points? The board pack is due Thursday, and the answer is buried in freight, supplier price creep and a mispriced renewal.

Rolling

forecasts refreshed each month from reconciled actuals

What Aurus does

Minutes

to model a supplier cost shock against budget and covenants

What Aurus does

On schedule

department reports and the board pack, generated and sent

What Aurus does

How Aurus closes it

1Consolidate actuals
Every business unit and ERP in one view.
2Reconcile first
Plans built on numbers that have already been checked.
3Measure the variance
Budget to actual by account, unit and driver.
4Trace the drivers
Each variance linked to the invoices and contracts behind it.
5Model scenarios
Supplier shocks, lost customers, new products: P&L, cash, covenants.
6Send the board pack
Generated and distributed on schedule.

Term	Signed contract	Billing system	Variance
Annual uplift	5% per renewal	0%	−$42,000
Seats	220 committed	220	-
Overage rate	$0.008 / call	not configured	−$9,600
Intro discount	Expires month 12	Still applied	−$18,000
Payment terms	Net 30	Net 30	-

Remittance line	Open invoice	Amount	Result
INV 20418	INV-20418	$22,400.00	Matched
INV 20431	INV-20431	$14,300.00	Matched
INV 20447 less promo	INV-20447	$12,215.00 of $13,900	Short $1,685
(no reference)	INV-20452?	$0.00	Not paid

Term	Contract	Received	Gap
Volume rebate tier 2	3% above $2M	Not credited	$71,400
SLA credit (late delivery)	2% per late PO	Not claimed	$8,920
Price cap	CPI + 2%	CPI + 4.5%	$12,300
Early-pay discount	2/10 net 45	Captured	-

Field	PO	Receipt	Invoice	Result
Quantity	14 pallets	12 pallets	14 pallets	Break
Unit price	$279.30	-	$279.30	OK
Ship-to	Plant 2	Plant 2	Plant 2	OK
Duplicate check	-	-	Matches Inv. 88213-A	Break

Check	Finding	Result
Sender domain	arcadia-metals.co (vendor uses .com)	Break
Bank country	Changed from US to new jurisdiction	Break
Pending payments	$61,700 due Friday	Review
Call-back to vendor of record	Not yet completed	Review

Every dollar, accounted for.

Revenue leakage: from signed contract to billed invoice

How Aurus closes it

Cash and DSO: unapplied cash, short-pays and slow collections

How Aurus closes it

Contract leakage: negotiated terms that never reach the numbers

How Aurus closes it

Supplier overpayments: duplicates, mismatches and freight

How Aurus closes it

Vendor and payment fraud: the email that looks right

How Aurus closes it

The close and the audit: fast, clean and defensible

How Aurus closes it

Liquidity and the 13-week cash forecast

How Aurus closes it

Margin, forecast and the board pack

How Aurus closes it

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Reconciliation	Owner	Difference	Status
Bank to GL (4 entities)	Treasury	-	Reconciled
AP subledger to GL	AP lead	-	Reconciled
Accruals: support check	Controller	$84,200	3 missing
Intercompany US–CA	GL accountant	$12,410	Out of balance

Account	Bank	GL	Result
Operating · US	$4,182,330	$4,182,330	OK
Payroll · US	$611,040	$611,040	OK
Operating · CA	$902,116	$904,520	Review
Lockbox	$238,915	$190,000	Review

Driver	Budget	Actual	Impact
Freight accessorials	$410K	$596K	−78 bps
Supplier price creep	$0	$238K	−56 bps
Renewal pricing	-	$42K under	−22 bps
Volume mix	-	+$96K	+16 bps