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Key Takeaways

Finance automation is delivering on efficiency for most companies, but what it isn’t delivering is control.

When automation expands across regions, business units and systems without clear enterprise-level ownership, it amplifies whatever fragmentation already exists.

To govern it, you must assign enterprise-level ownership, standardize where it matters most, tie every automation initiative to a capital outcome and build real-time visibility into the system.