Solutions
Controls that hold up when someone asks
For controllers and CFOs: role-based permissions, approval thresholds, period locks, and an audit trail complete enough to answer a question six months later.
- Role-based permissions
- Segregation of duties
- Complete audit trail
Log entries are immutable and exportable for review.
- Permissions
- Granular
- Segregation of duties
- Enforced
- Audit log
- Immutable
- Closed periods
- Locked
By module, action, and entity.
Preparer and approver cannot be the same.
Append-only, exportable.
Reopening requires a reason and a role.
Control environment
Designed to be reviewed
Varetiq assumes someone will eventually audit these books. Approvals, thresholds, reopenings, and permission changes are all recorded with the person and the reason.
In practice
- Preparer/approver separation on entries and bills
- Threshold-based approval routing
- Permission changes logged like transactions
- Exportable evidence for review requests
Team workflow
Work distributed without losing the thread
Assign close steps, review notes, and open questions to named people with due dates, and see at a glance what is actually blocking the period from finishing.
In practice
- Assignable close checklist with owners
- Review notes threaded on the entry in question
- Workload view across the team
- Handover-friendly: context lives with the record
Review the control surface
Open the settings, roles, and audit log previews with demonstration data.