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Manual Intercompany Matching Worked at Five Entities. At Twenty, It Became the Close's Longest Task.
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10.26.2026

Manual Intercompany Matching Worked at Five Entities. At Twenty, It Became the Close's Longest Task.

Manual intercompany matching has a hard ceiling that most organizations hit between 40 and 80 transfers per month, after which the spreadsheet process costs more in labor, errors, and close delays than automation would.
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