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Cost Efficiency Review

Connects to a client’s accounting system, normalises their expenditure, and tests it against five independent sources of evidence to show where cost is running high — with an estimated saving, a confidence level, and the evidence behind every finding.

Enter

What it reads

With your client’s authorisation, through the suite’s shared connector: their purchase ledger, chart of accounts, supplier list, analysis categories and invoice attachments. Read-only. Nothing is ever written back.

The five techniques

Invoice review against the knowledge bank: Compares your client's unit prices against the range observed for the same item, anonymised across contributors.
Historical trend, adjusted: Strips out inflation and the part of any increase explained by growth, and reports only what is left.
Market evidence: Finds costs that should have fallen and did not, each with a dated, working source link.
Peer comparables: Compares cost ratios against peers' filed accounts, with the filing lag stated on every finding.
Email review: Only with the mailbox owner's own consent, and only for supplier negotiation history.

What it will not do

Write anything back to the accounting system
Contact a supplier, renegotiate, or switch anything
Make a payment or authorise anything
Give tax advice
Assert a saving it cannot evidence

Setting up

Connect the accounting system and choose the entity.
Confirm how the chart of accounts maps to the cost taxonomy.
Map the client’s analysis categories onto branch, service line, department and cost centre.
Set the threshold below which spend is not worth testing.
Run the review.