Let AI prepare the evidence; keep the accounting judgment with the accountant.

Close work gets easier when the evidence arrives in one place.

The time cost of a close is often locating the evidence: an invoice attachment in email, an approval in a document, a receipt in a portal, or a statement downloaded to the wrong folder. That is administrative friction, not accounting insight.

Strawberry can build a document checklist around a close period and flag what is present, unreadable, duplicated, or missing. The output should preserve the original file and location rather than replacing them with an unexplained summary.

Exceptions are more valuable than a spreadsheet full of green cells.

An automated comparison should not claim that two records match just because their totals are close. Dates, currencies, tax treatment, vendor names, partial payments, and supporting descriptions can all matter.

Ask Strawberry to prepare the comparison and show the reason for every mismatch. That gives the accountant a short queue of exceptions to investigate instead of a black-box conclusion.

Audit support needs a trail that someone else can follow.

When a reviewer asks why a number moved, “the AI found it” is not an answer.

Good working papers connect the amount to the source file, the check performed, the exception raised, and the decision made by the person responsible.

Strawberry can help assemble that packet from the materials you choose. It should never fabricate a receipt, infer a missing approval, or quietly normalize a discrepancy to make the schedule look complete.

Repeat the preparation, not the professional decision.

A monthly routine can fetch the same categories of records, build the same exception list, and remind the team about missing evidence. Saving that setup as a skill protects the checklist from being rebuilt under deadline pressure.

Posting journal entries, approving payments, setting policy, and signing off a close require accountable human control. The workflow can prepare the ground without crossing that boundary.

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