Why this matters now
CFOs and Controllers care about three outcomes, not the AI itself
CFOs, Controllers, and F&A GBS leaders care less about the AI itself and more about three measurable outcomes that show up on every close calendar and every audit report.
Close cycle days
Every day of close compression is a day of leadership attention recovered for analysis instead of typing.
Audit defensibility
Every entry explainable. Every approval traceable. No rework when the auditor asks for the lineage.
Senior accountant load
Senior staff freed from low-judgment work during crunch periods. Their time redirected to analysis, not transactions.
Journal entries are where this breaks today. They are still typed manually, justified informally, and approved through email. There is no BlackLine for journal entries. This is the masterclass for what comes next.
What you will see live
The end-to-end journal entry workflow
A requestor submits a thin ask. The platform uses the requestor's identity, role, department, legal entity, and history of similar past requests to infer:
- Correct GL accounts, reasoned from the request context and prior entries.
- Cost centers, resolved through the requestor's role and legal entity.
- Supporting documentation, selected and attached from connected systems.
- Approval path, routed to the correct approver under policy.
Every step is captured in a visible lineage trail at every step. Nothing is hidden behind a confidence score.
The Close Week view
A real dashboard during close, showing the three measures that matter to an F&A leader on the calendar:
- Throughput, entries created and posted in the cycle.
- Exception rates, where humans were needed and why.
- Days saved, measured against your baseline close cycle.
Speakers
Who you'll hear from
Two stories every attendee walks away with
One for the audit committee, one for the CFO
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The Control Story.
Every entry is explainable. Every approval is traceable. Auditors can follow the lineage from request to posting without asking your team for clarification.
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The Economic Story.
Close cycle compressed. Senior accountants redirected to higher-judgment work. Exception rates measurable, defensible, and trending down quarter over quarter.
Inside the session
55 minutes, structured for finance leaders
0 to 5 min
Framing. The journal entry problem. Why this is the next bottleneck after AP and bank reconciliation.
5 to 25 min
Live demo. Thin-input JE to posted entry with the full lineage trail on screen. GL inference, cost center inference, supporting documentation, approval path.
25 to 40 min
Close Week view. Throughput, exception rates, and days saved versus baseline, on a real dashboard during close.
40 to 50 min
Customer perspective. A Kognitos customer on the control and economic outcomes after going live.
50 to 55 min
Q&A. Your scenarios. Your top three JE categories. Your audit posture.
Who this is for
Built for the leaders responsible for close governance
- Controllers and Assistant Controllers
- CFOs and VPs of Finance
- Heads of Record-to-Report
- F&A Shared Services and GBS leaders
- Internal Audit and Compliance leaders responsible for close governance
Companies: 500 to 5,000 employees. Industries: manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, banking, retail, technology, CPG.
“Working with Kognitos has helped us to automate extremely complex use cases that existing automation solutions on the market have been unable to handle. Our team is empowered to automate and even handle unforeseen edge cases without increasing the demand on IT.”
Jim McCullen, Chief Information Officer, Century Supply Chain
Get the JE Automation Maturity Framework
Self-assess where your function sits today
Every registrant gets a one-page framework showing the four levels of journal entry automation maturity:
- Level 1. Fully manual with spreadsheet justifications.
- Level 2. Templated with manual review.
- Level 3. RPA or custom code with rigid rules.
- Level 4. Context-aware AI agents with full lineage.
Delivered within 24 hours of registration. See what Level 4 actually looks like in operation.
Want to see this on your own close?
Skip the webinar queue and book a private working session. We will walk through your top three journal entry categories, your approval workflow, and your audit posture, so you see exactly what changes on day one.
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FAQ
Common questions before you register
What is a touchless journal entry, exactly?
A journal entry posted to the GL without a senior accountant typing the line items, looking up the cost center, attaching the supporting document, or chasing the approver. A context-aware AI agent takes a thin requestor input (who, what, why) and infers the rest from the surrounding finance context: vendor master, prior entries, role-based authority, supporting documents. The agent then produces the entry with a full lineage trail visible at every step.
How is this different from RPA or templated JE tools?
Templated and RPA approaches require rigid rules and explicit field mappings, and they break the moment the requestor input deviates from the template. Context-aware AI agents reason about the request using the surrounding finance context and handle deviation as a first-class case, escalating cleanly when policy is unclear instead of dumping every variation into an exception queue.
How is the journal entry made audit-defensible?
Every action the agent takes is captured as a plain-English execution step: the GL inference, the cost center inference, the supporting document selection, the approval path. The lineage is deterministic, time-stamped, and reproducible. Auditors can follow the trail from the original request to the posted entry without asking the F&A team for clarification.
What outcomes do F&A leaders see from touchless journal entries?
Three measurable outcomes. Close cycle days compress because the manual JE bottleneck is removed during crunch periods. Audit defensibility improves because every entry is explainable. Senior accountant load drops because senior staff are no longer typing entries during close, freeing them for analysis and judgment.
Who should attend this masterclass?
Controllers and Assistant Controllers, CFOs and VPs of Finance, Heads of Record-to-Report, F&A Shared Services and GBS leaders, and Internal Audit and Compliance leaders responsible for close governance. The session is built for companies with 500 to 5,000 employees in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, banking, retail, technology, and CPG.
What is the JE Automation Maturity Framework, and who gets it?
A one-page self-assessment showing the four levels of journal entry automation maturity: Level 1 (fully manual with spreadsheet justifications), Level 2 (templated with manual review), Level 3 (RPA or custom code with rigid rules), Level 4 (context-aware AI agents with full lineage). Every registrant receives it within 24 hours of registering.
How do I register, and does it cost anything?
Registration is free. Reserve your seat using the form in the sidebar, or open the Zoom registration link directly. Each registrant receives the calendar invite, the same-day recording, and the JE Automation Maturity Framework within 24 hours.
What if I cannot attend live on June 10?
Register anyway. Every registrant receives the recording on the same day as the session and the JE Automation Maturity Framework within 24 hours. You can also book a private working session to walk through your top three JE categories, your approval workflow, and your audit posture.
