Connected Finance use case

The receivable is overdue.
The action sits in someone's inbox.

A receivable goes overdue. The ageing shows it, a dunning stage runs somewhere, and whether the payment now arrives four or eight weeks later gets estimated in the liquidity meeting instead of computed.

The management question

Where is my money tied up, and what do I recover first?

Ageing

It shows what is open. It does not say which action is running and who owns it.

Action

Calls, emails and payment arrangements happen beside the system and end there too.

Effect

The shifted receipt only reaches the liquidity plan once somebody updates the spreadsheet.

An open item is a number. An action with an owner, a date and an expected effect is something you can steer with.

The sequence

From the transaction to the decision.

Four steps, and the same cross-functional capabilities across every one of them.

The sequence, in four steps
Open itemReceivable · due date · entity
ActionOwner · date · expected effect
Financial effectExpected receipt · cash · headroom
DecisionPriority and escalation
Across every step
  • Cases
  • Controls
  • Authorities
  • Evidence
Modules involved

What comes together.

Every module is a standalone entry point. This chain shows what comes together once several of them run on the same finance data model.

Working Capital AR · AP · Collections

Pilot / validation

Keeps open items, ageing and payment behaviour on the canonical receivables data and turns them into a work queue.

Cases & Exceptions Case management

In active development

Turns every deviation into a case with an owner and a date — a complaint, a payment arrangement, a disputed line.

Cash Forecasting Forecast · scenarios

Pilot / validation

Carries the shifted receipt into the forecast and shows the range when several items slip at once.

Treasury & Liquidity TMS

Pilot / validation

Shows cash position and headroom against funding lines — with the cause attached, not only the number.

Payments & Banking Payments

Pilot / validation

Connects the receipt to the open item, so the action gets a measured effect rather than a note.

What moves financially

The chain of financial effects.

What moves financially
Open itemWith ageing and entity
ActionWith owner, date and expected effect
Expected receiptMoved, with a named cause
Cash forecastA range instead of a point estimate
LiquidityHeadroom against funding lines
Decision and evidence

Who decides, and what stays of it.

Dunning stage, payment arrangement, escalation or preparing a write-down. The expected effect stays on the action, so it becomes visible later which action held for which customer behaviour.

Items prioritisedAmount, age, entity, payment behaviour
Action chosenDunning stage, arrangement, escalation, prepare a write-down
Effect expectedThe forecast knows the new date
Effect measuredExpected and actual effect sit next to each other
What stays in the source systems

The boundary we do not move.

ERP and accounting

Invoice, receipt and posting stay in the posting system. FinanceOS reads the open items.

Bank channels

Account information comes from your channels; FinanceOS claims no bank transmission of its own.

Customer contact

Where the conversation happens is your choice. The case holds the outcome, not the tool.

Maturity of the capabilities in this chain

What we can evidence here — and what we cannot.

In active development Pilot / validation

What is not marked, we do not claim. The full state per capability is on the module pages and under what we can evidence today.

What people ask about this

Three questions from the first conversation.

Is this a debt-collection tool?

No. It is about steering before handover: which items first, which action, and what effect on liquidity to expect.

Does FinanceOS compute DSO?

The formula is implemented. What we deliberately do not offer are DPO and the cash conversion cycle — there is no authoritative COGS denominator for them, and a ratio without a sound denominator is not a ratio.

What happens with disputed items?

They become a case with an owner and a date, not a line in an ageing report. That lets the forecast treat the item differently from an undisputed due date.

Conversation

Thirty minutes on your own ageing report.

Bring this case as it looks in your organisation. We work through it on your example and say where a common finance layer holds and where it does not.

Who you speak toJoerg Schäfer, JPS-iQ Solutions Group
How longThirty minutes, no slide deck
What you leave withWhich module is the most obvious entry point for you