r/CFORealtalk

By the time a cash problem is obvious, it's usually already serious. I'm trying to get better at reading the earlier signals the things that show up in the numbers weeks or months before the crisis hits. What's the earliest indicator you've caught that flagged a real cash problem before it became a crisis?

We are putting Claude plugins into everyone’s excel. It’s been awesome for ad hoc analysis, spread sheet checking and complex formulas. Any other good suggestions?

Payroll fraud is one of those things you assume happens to other companies until it happens to yours. Whether it was a ghost employee, a payroll administrator skimming, or something else entirely, how did it surface? Was it a routine audit, a tip, a reconciliation that didn't add up? And what did you do once you found it?