VivaS Month-End Close Excellence Toolkit™

Is Your Month-End Close Really Ready?

Completing month-end tasks does not necessarily mean Finance is ready to report.

The VivaS Month-End Close Excellence Toolkit™ is a self-service assessment and executive decision-support toolkit designed for CFOs, Financial Controllers, Group Controllers and Heads of Finance.

It helps Finance leadership answer three critical questions:

1. Can we close completely, accurately and on time?

2. Can the CFO trust and certify the numbers?

3. Can leadership understand what matters and take accountable action?

The VivaS Three-Gate Model

Gate 1 — Close Readiness

Assess whether the organization can close completely, accurately and on time.

Gate 2 — Financial Integrity

Assess whether reported numbers can be trusted and material financial uncertainties have been identified.

Gate 3 — Decision & Value Readiness

Assess whether leadership has the insight required to understand performance, anticipate outcomes and take action.

What You Get

✓ 55 CFO-focused assessment questions

✓ Process Maturity scoring

✓ Green / Amber / Red Current Close Risk assessment

✓ Executive Priority Engine — P1 to P4

✓ Top 5 Executive Issues

✓ CFO Executive Dashboard

✓ Action Plan with ownership and target dates

✓ Excel Toolkit v1.0

✓ Step-by-step PDF User Guide v1.0

More Than a Month-End Checklist

The toolkit separates:

Process Health — How mature and sustainable is the underlying close process?

from

Current Close Risk — What could affect this reporting period right now?

This prevents a strong maturity score from hiding a material current-period exception.

Executive Prioritization

Unresolved issues are prioritized using:

Current Risk + Materiality + Urgency → Executive Priority

Helping leadership focus on the issues requiring attention first.

Ideal For

• CFOs

• Financial Controllers

• Group Controllers

• Heads of Finance

• Finance Leaders responsible for month-end close

Particularly valuable for organizations experiencing heavy Excel dependency, decentralized processes, limited centralized close visibility, unclear ownership, manual reconciliations, recurring close delays or weak exception management.

The Objective

Not another long report for the CFO.

The objective is to answer:

What requires attention now? Why does it matter? Who owns it? When will it be resolved?

One screen. One purpose. One decision.

Technology Agnostic. Business Outcome Focused.

VivaS — Finance Decision Intelligence Platform

Transform Finance. Elevate Value.

Important Notice

This toolkit is a management assessment and finance-process improvement aid. It does not replace professional accounting judgment, statutory or regulatory requirements, audit procedures, an organization's accounting policies, or its formal materiality framework.