Done For YouFinancial Reporting & Cash Forecasting

Management reports and a rolling cash forecast built from live ledger data

A done-for-you financial reporting and cash forecasting automation is a set of AI agents that pull actuals from your ledger, bank, billing and CRM, build the monthly management pack, and keep a rolling 13-week cash forecast up to date. They explain variances against budget and the last forecast in plain English and flag cash gaps early. Finance reviews every pack and forecast change before it reaches leadership. BufferSol builds, connects and configures it for you.

See how it works

Live in 3 to 6 weeks
Works with NetSuite, QuickBooks Online and more
People approve what matters

Is this you?

CFOs, controllers and FP&A leads at companies where the monthly pack and the cash forecast are rebuilt in Excel from ERP exports, bank portals and sales pipeline reports.

The management pack goes out well into the following month.
The cash forecast lives in one analyst's spreadsheet and stalls when they are on holiday.
A leader asks why a number moved, and finance needs a day to answer.
Supplier and payroll runs are planned from today's bank balance rather than a forecast.
Budget-versus-actual commentary is written from scratch every month.

Today vs done for you

The current way, and the new way

What your team does by hand today, and what the automation does instead, step by step.

How it works today

After close, an analyst exports trial balances and departmental detail from the ERP into a reporting workbook.
They refresh pivot tables and charts, repair broken links and tie the pack back to the ledger.
For cash, they download bank balances, the AR aging, the AP schedule and payroll dates, and update a forecast workbook by hand.
They ask sales for the latest pipeline and guess when customers will actually pay.
They write variance commentary, send drafts to the CFO and rework them after each round of questions.

What it quietly costs you

· Decisions on hiring, spend and pricing are made on numbers that are already stale.
· Key-person risk: when the spreadsheet owner leaves, the forecast logic leaves with them.
· Analysts spend their time assembling data instead of analyzing it, and broken formulas can reach the leadership team.

How it works done for you

Agents read actuals from the ERP, bank balances and transactions, open AR and AP, payroll calendars and the CRM pipeline every day.
They map accounts to your reporting lines and build the P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and KPI pages in your own template, in Excel, Google Sheets or Power BI.
The cash agent rolls the 13-week forecast forward each week, timing receipts from each customer's payment history and payments from scheduled bills, payroll, tax and debt service.
It compares actuals with budget and the prior forecast, traces the drivers behind each material variance, and drafts commentary that names the customer, vendor or account involved.
If projected cash drops below the floor you set, it alerts the CFO with the weeks affected and the items causing the gap.
A finance reviewer edits and approves the pack and any change to forecast assumptions before it is shared.
Every figure links back to its ledger or bank source, and every assumption change is logged with who made it and when.

Your people

What changes for your team

Role	Today	Done for you
FP&A analyst	Spends days exporting, pasting and fixing spreadsheet links for each pack and forecast.	Reviews the drafted pack, tests scenarios and works with department heads on the drivers.
CFO	Waits for the pack and gets cash warnings late, often from the bank balance itself.	Gets a weekly cash view with alerts and a monthly pack with variance reasons already written.
Controller	Answers repeated questions about where each number came from.	Points people to source links on every figure and spends the time on close quality.

The numbers

What it's worth to you

Estimate the time and cost you get back with your own numbers. We baseline the real figures in week 1 and track these KPIs from day one.

Example inputs · change them to yours

Volume (reports and forecast updates per month)

Minutes of staff time per item

Share the automation handles end to end: 40%

Loaded cost per staff hour

$per hour

The automated share covers data pulls, report assembly, forecast roll-forward and draft commentary; review, judgment and sign-off stay with finance.

Staff time back

48 hours a month

About 0.3 full-time people freed for higher-value work

Capacity reclaimed a month

$2,880

A year

$34,560

An estimate from your inputs only. In week 1 we measure your real baseline, so results are tracked against your own numbers.

Days from month end to pack delivered

Business days from period end to the pack reaching leadership, baselined from the last six months.

Cash forecast accuracy

Forecast cash for each week compared with the actual bank balance, tracked as a rolling error over the quarter.

Analyst hours on data assembly

Time logged on exports, pasting and tie-outs before and after launch.

Cash alert lead time

Weeks of notice between an alert and the projected shortfall, reviewed each quarter.

Review rounds per pack

Number of revision cycles between first draft and approval.

18%

of accountants make financial errors at least daily (Gartner survey, July 2023). Gartner

50% vs. 34%

of small businesses with more late payments reported cash flow issues, compared with those with fewer (2025). Intuit QuickBooks

6.4 calendar days

median time to close a month's books, before any monthly reporting can be final (APQC benchmark). CFO.com (APQC data)

Works with the tools you already use

NetSuite
QuickBooks Online
Sage Intacct
Xero
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Salesforce
HubSpot
Gusto or ADP
Excel and Google Sheets
Power BI

Guardrails built in

Agents read source systems and never post entries or move money.
Forecast assumptions change only after a named finance approver accepts them.
Nothing goes to leadership, lenders or the board without a finance review.
Role-based access means department heads see only their own numbers.
Every figure keeps a link to its source, and every edit is logged.

Why it hurts today

What teams say about this work

Common complaints from operators, reviewers and industry research.

Gartner warns that errors reaching the monthly or quarterly close can lead management to make decisions on incorrect data or issue inaccurate financial statements.
Source: Accounting Today

Small businesses with more late payments report cash-flow problems much more often, which makes the timing of customer receipts the hardest line in any cash forecast.
Source: Intuit QuickBooks

When payments are matched to invoices late, real-time cash visibility weakens and cash-flow reporting stays distorted until the backlog clears.
Source: Cashbook

Most accounting teams had to reopen the books at least once in a year to fix errors, so numbers shared early often change after leaders have seen them.
Source: FloQast

Done for you

Live in 3 to 6 weeks

We do the build, the integrations and the rollout. Your team gives us access, reviews the pilot and approves go-live.

1
Week 1
Discovery and access
We map the workflow with your team, agree the outcomes and KPIs, measure today's baseline and get secure access to your tools.
2
Weeks 2–3
Build and connect
We build the agents and connect your systems, with your rules, approval steps, permissions and logging.
3
Weeks 3–5
Test and pilot
We test on your real history, then run a pilot on live work while your team reviews what the agent does.
4
Weeks 4–6
Go live and hand over
We roll out in stages, train your team, hand over dashboards and runbooks, and keep improving it with you.

Included add-on

Executive Ask: ask your business anything

One plain-English assistant connected to every system you run: CRM, helpdesk, ERP and accounting, HR, inbox and docs. Leaders get sourced answers in seconds and can trigger actions with approval. It respects everyone's existing permissions and logs every answer.

See Executive Ask

Ask it, for example

What does our cash position look like over the next thirteen weeks, and what drives the low point?
Why did gross margin drop last month compared with budget?
If our two largest customers paid thirty days late, which week would we dip below our cash floor?

Financial Reporting & Cash Forecasting: questions

Straight answers to what clients ask us most.

Ask our team

How long does it take to go live?

Reporting and forecasting automations are usually live in 3 to 6 weeks. We start from your current pack and forecast workbook, map every line to its source, and rebuild them on live connections. For one month the agents produce the pack and forecast next to your analyst's version, so you can compare them line by line before you switch over.

How much does it cost?

It is quoted after a short scoping call. Cost depends on the number of entities and systems we connect, how many report packs and audiences you have, whether you need a direct method cash forecast, and whether output goes to Excel, Google Sheets or a BI tool. You receive a fixed written quote for design, build, connections, deployment and configuration.

How does the cash forecast decide when customers will pay?

It looks at each customer's actual payment history against terms, recent promises logged by your collections team, and any disputes on open invoices. Large or unusual items can be set by hand. Payments come from scheduled bills, payroll calendars, tax dates, loan schedules and recurring commitments. Each week it compares the forecast with what happened and shows where the assumptions were off.

Will it replace our FP&A analyst?

No. It removes the exporting, pasting and link-fixing that fills most of an analyst's month, and drafts the first version of the commentary. The analyst still owns the assumptions, talks to department heads, runs scenarios and decides what the pack says. Most teams use the time to do the analysis they never had room for.

Executive & Leadership