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Finance Value Score · by AIS

The 2-Minute Snapshot - where your finance function stands, and what the gap is worth.

Free, no login. Two minutes. Your figures stay in the browser until you ask us for the report. Ready for the detail? Do the full assessment →

Rate how you run finance today and get your Finance Value Score out of 100, with an indicative annual value for closing the gap - a faster close, earlier board packs, capacity freed for analysis. That's the quick view. See a sample Full Report → - the same engine run on an example group: built activity by activity on real processes, benchmarked against peers, with a costed business case for every investment. Start here, then create a free account to build yours.

1Benchmark today
Rate how each finance area runs now on the capability ladder.
2See where you stand
Against best-in-class - close speed, board-pack timing, cost.
3Model the future state
The annual value, faster cycles and capacity a transformation unlocks.
Your group
Annual turnover
Entities
Finance FTEs
Used to show the saving as a share of your team's capacity, and to place you on the cost-of-finance benchmark - it doesn't change the saving itself
Sector
How you plan
Budget holders
Everyone who has to fill something in - cost-centre owners, and finance staff too if finance builds it
Budget rounds
Full passes before it is approved
Budgeting approach
Forecast frequency
How each area runs today
The whole case rebuilds as you set each dial. You don’t have to do all seven - each area gets its own score, and anything you leave out is left out, not marked down.
What do 1–5 mean?
Statutory year-end runs:
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Benchmark where you areYour finance function today, scored 0–100.
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Set your finance ambitionWhat you can realistically reach — we model a move to Level 4 (Automated), about 75/100.
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Calculate the business caseThe annual value of closing that gap — the numbers below.
Example group - set your dials to make this yours
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Your Finance Value Score · -
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Estimated annual value · from modernising finance
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Close cycle (days)
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Board pack earlier
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Capacity released
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FTE-equivalent of finance capacity released
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of your finance team's time freed for analysis
Where the value sits
Annual saving by finance area.
Capability: today → target
On the AIS 1-5 ladder.
A quick, indicative view

You rate each area once, and we model a move to Level 4 — a modern, automated finance function (about 75/100). Enough to see the idea and the value on the table.

For an in-depth, benchmarked look at your real processes — with the detailed, bottom-up business case and workings — do the full assessment.

Save this and build the full version
Your score and the numbers behind it, saved to a free account - plus the Full Report, built activity by activity on your real processes, benchmarked against peers, with the workings shown. In the app you can also split the assessment across your team, one finance area each.
Take this into your assessment
You’re signed in. Open your dashboard to save these answers against your company, assign a finance area to each of your team, and build the Full Report on your real processes.
Create a free account - it takes a minute →Go to your dashboard →
Or view this snapshot as a board-ready PDF · have it emailed to you - no account needed for either

Further reading

Make sense of your Snapshot (opens in a new tab, so you keep your answers):
Indicative, whole-of-function view from the levels you set and AIS's house-standard improvement model. The saving is built bottom-up from the work each process takes - your entity count, how you plan and how often you run each cycle - not from your finance headcount, which is used to show what the saving is worth as a share of your team and where you sit against the cost-of-finance benchmark. Nothing is stored until you request the full business case. A consultant-led review replaces the house rates and effort with your measured hours.