Agent 08 · Keep the books and close moving
Close Orchestrator
Coordinates a complete, evidence-backed close, improves recurring estimates and makes sure required opening-period reversals are completed.
Read-only connections · Zero-day scan · 100% coverage · Your team keeps the final say
01When it runs
What starts the work
Eve dispatches Close Orchestrator when one of these events arrives, checks readiness first, and records why the work was allocated.
- Close calendar milestones, a new reporting period, late adjustments, accounting-guidance updates or business-profile changes.
- Actual invoices or settlements arrive for prior estimates and provisions.
02What it checks
The procedures Close Orchestrator performs
Every procedure has a stable identifier in the approved SOP, an expected result and required evidence. Each check records its result, its supporting evidence and anything it could not assess.
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Maintains a researched checklist linking each close procedure to business activity, accounting policy, owner, due date, evidence and completion criteria.
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Reviews effective accounting-guidance and business-profile changes for new or revised close procedures, recording applicability and finance approval.
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Examines the previous six months of close entries and adjustments for recurring, quarterly, exceptional and seasonal requirements, adding missing tasks and documenting justified exclusions.
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Verifies the completeness of reconciliations, accruals, provisions, depreciation, amortisation, prepayments, revenue cut-off, intercompany and other close work.
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At each month's opening, identifies the entries scheduled to reverse and verifies the actual reversal in the correct period, without reversing provisions that are meant to remain.
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Reconciles estimates to later actual invoices, settlements or outcomes, and isolates timing, scope and estimation error.
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Proposes revised accrual formulas, drivers or assumptions from demonstrated bias and current conditions, and obtains approval before a material methodological change.
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Monitors dependencies and distinguishes a completed task from an uploaded file or an unverified posting.
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Identifies unresolved material blockers, proposed adjustments, late changes and sign-offs, and routes decisions to the Inbox without certifying an incomplete close.
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After approved postings and reruns, publishes close completeness, residual exceptions and lessons for the next period.
Your agreed scope identifies the procedures available for your connected systems, the evidence they need and any coverage limits. Missing sources and blocked checks stay visible rather than counting as a clean pass.
03Who it works with
One lead per finding. Named support.
Journal prepares and posts entries, every specialist provides completion and exception evidence, Evidence checks documentation and Eve coordinates overdue work.
Flux Analyst provides movement explanations, Investigator resolves persistent errors, and Auditor independently tests completion.
Handoffs on this scope
Every handoff carries the question to resolve, the scope and period, the completed procedures and the unresolved differences, under one finding identifier. The receiving agent accepts or declines with a reason.
04What it files
Workbooks you can download. Reports you can read.
Each workbook reproduces the run: population, formulas, checks, exceptions and evidence references, linked back to the workpaper in Reconciliations and the originals in Records.
- Close checklist and dependency register
- Six-month historical entry coverage
- Opening reversal completeness
- Estimate-to-actual bridge and bias analysis
- Blockers, sign-offs and late adjustments
- Close readiness report
- Missing-procedure report
- Reversal completion report
- Estimation improvement report
05What it raises, what stays with you
Findings for the agent. Decisions for your team.
A missing close step, an unsupported completion, an overdue reversal, an unexplained estimate bias, a late adjustment or an accounting-change impact.
A closed task with unresolved material support is shown as qualified, not fully assured.
Checklist changes, unresolved blockers, estimation changes, entries and close sign-off go to your Inbox. Journal executes approved corrections, and Close Orchestrator verifies completeness without approving its own judgments.
Close deadlines, lateness, balance tolerances, estimate bias and escalation thresholds. The six-month historical review is explicit scope.
Every required task has passed or carries an authorised, documented exception, postings and reversals are verified, and residual risks and their owners carry into the next close.
06What good looks like
What a completed result looks like
The observable outcomes Close Orchestrator has to produce before the duty counts as complete on your books.
- A recurring entry from four months ago is included, or has a documented reason for exclusion.
- A non-reversing provision is not reversed simply because a new month begins.
- A revised accrual formula requires approval and is traceable to estimate-versus-actual evidence.
Where Close Orchestrator works
Balance reconciliation
Carries the agreed intercompany balances and their open differences into the close checklist.
Period close
Keeps a researched checklist tied to your business activity and policy, reviews six months of history for missing recurring entries, verifies opening reversals and reconciles estimates to actuals.
Audit readiness
Shows which close procedures were completed with support and which remain qualified.
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