For CFOs, controllers & accounting teams
Start with workflows that speed up the month-end. Then add AI agents that chase receivables, answer the phones, work the AP inbox, run your morning briefing and onboard new hires, with the controls your auditors expect.
Built by Dan Allen, former CFO and retired CPA
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Where to start
16 step-by-step workflows for the close, reporting, forecasting, board decks and more. Each comes with the prompt, the setup and a reviewer checklist.
The Month-End Close Toolkit: checklist, reconciliations, flux and journal entries on one status page, plus nine AI prompts for the close.
Five agent playbooks with prompts and workbooks: AR collections, AI receptionist, AP invoices, executive assistant and HR onboarding. Tools, setup, compliance and controls.
AI agents for finance
The rule behind all five: agents do the repetitive work around the money. People approve, pay, and handle anything unusual.
Fast, and auditable
Prompts and agent scripts written to stop the AI from guessing, to say what it can't support, and to hand off to a person.
What never to paste, which steps stay with people, and the compliance and fraud checks a finance team needs.
A reviewer checklist or a weekly report, so you can see what the AI did and defend it to an auditor or a board.
From the free library
Reporting & MD&A
Turn a budget-vs-actual schedule into a clear management discussion that explains revenue, margin and expense variances, and flags every variance it cannot explain instead of guessing.
Reporting & MD&A
Use AI to map your chart of accounts to financial statement lines, then drop the trial balance into a formula-driven template that builds the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow and budget comparison, with automatic tie-out checks.
Month-End Close
Rank income statement movements by size, and get a list of likely causes to check in the general ledger for each one, so your flux review starts with the right questions.
Free download
Paste in a trial balance and get a clean balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, budget vs. actual, full-year outlook and an MD&A page, every number driven by formulas.
Why this exists
I'm Dan Allen. I founded ITS Logistics in 1999 and ran its finances as CFO, then the company as CEO, after about a decade in audit at Grant Thornton. Along the way I built pricing models, forecasts and board decks by hand, then reformatted them until they looked right. Month-end support lived in spreadsheets that too often had math errors, and SOPs took forever to write and were hard to find once they existed.
I was bombarded with the next thing to read and the next new software. What I wanted was quick, practical tools that improved the quality of the work, cut the time it took, and let my team get more done without another hire. That's what CFO Resource is: the playbook I wish I'd had.
One workflow a week, free. You get the month-end workbook right away.