Isn't the solution to a rare task being painful to make the task frequent? What if we required daily/weekly fiscal reporting? Would that even be feasible? I guess it would force complete automation, which might make it much more difficult to change things and reduce company agility. Would be fun to hear the opinion of someone actually involved with the process.
Tricky part is it’s not actually a technology problem. Generating the numbers is already automated.
It’s “pay [external] auditors and legal to review to make sure all of this won’t get us thrown in jail”
If those processes are automated because the law, accounting, and audit professions innovate, then I would suspect you’d