Separation of duties survives automation. The agent that prepares cannot approve, finance signs the totals, and the auditor gets receipts instead of an export.
For CFOs, controllers, heads of procurement and internal controls, and the AP and procurement automation vendors.
Every finance team already has the control an agent needs. It is called separation of duties: the person who prepares the invoice cannot approve it, the approver has a limit and the controller signs above that. It worked because people sit in different chairs.
An agent sits in every chair at once. The same AP automation reads the invoice, matches the order, approves it and queues the payment. The ERP's approval step was written for a person clicking, not for an agent calling the API all night. When the auditor asks who approved, the answer is a service account.
Stategram gives the chairs back. Finance signs the totals, risk signs the rules and every change to the numbers needs both signatures. The agent prepares and asks. The permit, the referral to the controller and the receipt name who decided what under which version, so the auditor reads them without asking IT for an export.
Above the agent's limit, the controller the policy names decides, and the decision is on the record.
Finance and risk both sign the numbers, so no single person can raise a limit.
A supplier's monthly total and the day's payment run are counted across every agent and person.
The auditor checks each decision against the policy version in force, offline, without a database export.
An example written for this page, with round numbers. It uses only what the policy format has today, and it is not a customer's policy.
Inside the rules the agent acts alone. Above a line, the named person decides. Every change to the numbers is a new signed version.
Two weeks, a fixed fee, your limits and a named approver, and the method to do the next workflow yourself.
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