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Ask any accountant, bookkeeper, or finance manager what their most pressurised time of the working month is, and the answer is rarely in doubt. Month end close is the recurring crunch point that consumes disproportionate time, demands intense focus, and — despite advances in cloud accounting software — still takes far longer than most teams would like. For many practices and finance departments, it stretches over two, three, or even four weeks into the following month, meanin