Excel systems that test your month-end close, accounts payable, receivables, cash flow and balance sheet reconciliations the way a thorough reviewer would — every period, not just the months someone remembers to check.
These aren't hypothetical risks. They are the specific, recurring control failures that manual review reliably misses — in close, in payables, in collections and in cash.
The close finishes when the file is sent, not when the numbers are proven right.
See how the system stops it →A duplicate payment gets caught by the bank, not by invoice review.
See how the system stops it →Cash is sitting in a customer's account and nobody can say for how many days.
See how the system stops it →The cash shortfall shows up the week it happens, not weeks before.
See how the system stops it →A template gives you somewhere to put numbers. These systems test the numbers you have put in — for duplicate invoices, for unreconciled balances, for accounts that should net to nil and don't — and will not let a file be signed off while an exception is still open.
Every system is built entirely in Excel. No add-ins, no macros to enable, nothing to install. Download it, open it, and the controls are already running.
Before release, every system is stress-tested against deliberately planted errors — duplicate invoices, broken formulas, incomplete data — and rebuilt until nothing gets through.
Each system stands on its own. Buy the one that matches your current exposure, or take the full set in The Controller's Vault.
All eight systems, one licence, one download. For a finance function that wants the close, payables, receivables, cash flow, the balance sheet and the asset register under control at the same time.
Accounting or bookkeeping practice? Use all eight across your client work with the Firm Licence.
Five free tools built on the same control logic as the systems. Use one now and see where your process leaks.
Paste your invoice list and see likely duplicates in minutes. Free Excel file: enter your work email to download it.
Use the free toolCheck whether a supplier email comes from the real domain. Free to use online.
Use the free toolScore a payment request against the warning signs of fraud. Free to use online.
Use the free tool12 questions on how strong your close controls are. Free to use online.
Use the free toolWork out DSO and the cash tied up in late payers. Free to use online.
Use the free toolA standard Excel (.xlsx) workbook — the blank master, plus a fully worked example so you can see the controls running on populated data before you touch your own numbers. No macros, no add-ins, nothing to install.
A template gives you somewhere to type numbers. These systems test the numbers you typed — for duplicates, for gaps, for balances that should net to nil and don't — and block sign-off while an exception is still open. A free template will never tell you it is wrong.
Checkout is processed by Paddle. Within a few minutes of payment clearing, your download links arrive by email from info@appiqfinance.com.
Yes. Every purchase carries a single-organisation licence — unlimited use by anyone inside your own organisation. It doesn't cover resale or redistribution.
Yes, with the Firm Licence ($4,997, one-time). It covers all eight systems across any number of client engagements, by any number of the practice's own staff. The practice gives clients the completed outputs; the workbooks themselves stay with the practice.
Report it within 14 days with the file, tab and cell, and we fix it and redeliver. If we can't fix it, you get a full refund. Full terms are on the refund policy page.
Financial controllers, finance managers, financial accountants, accounts payable and receivable teams, FP&A and finance directors — in the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.