GAAPx Score report
Lumen Ridge Software
Illustrative company: the numbers show how a report reads and are not a real company's results.- Industry: SaaS
- Size: $20M to $100M ARR
- Assessed: 2026-07-15
GAAPx Score
Self-assessedGAAPx Score: #3 (latest), 2026-07-15, 79
Area scores
- Spend · Accounts payable7.2 / 10Most room to improve
- Billing · Contract to cash8.0 / 10
- RevRec · Revenue recognition7.6 / 10
- Payroll · Payroll and benefits8.0 / 10
- The Close · Month-end close9.2 / 10
- Budget vs Actual · Budgeting and FP&A7.6 / 10
- Cash Ops · Treasury and cash8.8 / 10
- Controls · Internal controls7.2 / 10Most room to improve
- Reporting · Financial reporting7.2 / 10Most room to improve
Workflow detail
Choose a workflowMonth-end close
Month-end close
AI oversight: Not yet known
- Process steps
16 steps to 10 steps
- Cycle time
11 days to 5 days
- Exception loops
8 loops to 2 loops
- First-time-right rate
20% to 62%
- Cost per close
$21,000 to $9,800
- Process stepsDown 6 steps (38% fewer) LowerLower is better: fewer touches between start and finishAim for: 8 steps or fewer
- Cycle timeDown 6 days (55% faster) LowerLower is better: work finishes in fewer daysAim for: 3 days or fewer
- Exception loopsDown 6 loops (75% fewer) LowerLower is better: fewer items sent back or re-checkedAim for: 0 loops
- First-time-right rateUp 42 points HigherHigher is better: more items finish right the first timeAim for: 80% or more
- Cost per closeEstimatedDown $11,200 (53% lower) LowerLower is better: less spent to finish each closeAim for: $7,500 or less
Use cases for this workflow
Pick the ones you want to work on.
- Bank reconciliation auto-matching
Match bank transactions to ledger entries daily using amount, date and reference rules plus learned patterns, leave unmatched items for review, and produce the reconciliation for sign-off.
Moves:First-time-right rateCycle timeException loopsLightReady to start - Accrual estimate suggestion
Propose recurring and variable accrual amounts from contracts, open purchase orders, prior periods and late invoices, with the basis shown for the accountant to accept or change.
Moves:Exception loopsFirst-time-right rateCycle timeModerateNeeds prep first - Intercompany reconciliation and mismatch triage
Compare intercompany balances and transactions between entities, identify mismatches by cause (timing, FX, missing entry) and propose correcting entries for the entity accountants to agree.
Moves:Exception loopsCycle timeFirst-time-right rateModerateNeeds prep first - Journal entry anomaly detection
Score manual journals for unusual features (rarely used accounts, round amounts, late or out-of-hours posting, self-approval) and send the highest-risk ones to the reviewer with the reasons shown.
Moves:Exception loopsStepsFirst-time-right rateModerateNeeds prep first - Close task tracking with dependency alerts
Track every close task with owner, due day and dependencies, and alert owners when an upstream task is late so that the critical path is visible during the close.
Moves:Cycle timeException loopsFirst-time-right rateLightReady to start
My plan
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- 1Bank reconciliation auto-matchingIn progress
- 2Close task tracking with dependency alertsDone
- 3Journal entry anomaly detectionPlanned
Get support
Choose how much help you want with your next step.
Do it yourself
- Who it's for
- Controllers with a capable team and a few spare hours a week.
- What you get
- Your GAAPx Score and the use cases that fit, so your team can decide what to do first and run it without waiting on anyone.
- The use cases that fit your team, and what blocks the others
- Your first steps
- Checklists and templates, as they are being built
Get help
- Who it's for
- Teams that want a second pair of eyes while they do the work.
- What you get
- An experienced finance person works alongside your team.
- We look at the evidence you share
- Help choosing which use case to start with
- Check-ins while your team does the work
We do it for you
- Who it's for
- Controllers whose team has no spare capacity right now.
- What you get
- We set up the use case with your team and hand over the written process.
- We deliver the change, with your sign-off at each step
- We look at the evidence you share, so your score reflects what is in place
- A repeat GAAPx Score to track progress
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