Findings and Dispositions

A finding is the result of testing one Control against your documents, backed by the exact invoice lines, agreement clauses and rows it was tested against. Findings reach you as they are produced, with their confidence and their provenance, and nobody at Ressura reviews them first. What happens to a finding is your decision, and that decision is its disposition.

The four kinds of finding

• Pass. The Control held. The finding names the documents it tested.
• Exception. Something does not agree, shown as a dollar amount computed from the extracted figures and the reference price the Control named. Every figure can be recomputed from its provenance.
• Needs information. The module needs a document or an answer from you before the check can finish. It is a question in the same list, and it never blocks anything.
• Fraud risk. A pattern worth a second look, raised by Fraud Watch and linking the findings behind it. It carries no dollar value of its own, because the money sits on the exceptions it links.

Where findings appear

Open a module and choose its Findings tab. The list shows each finding's status, its subject, the Control, the type, the impact in dollars, the confidence, its disposition and its date, with totals for exceptions, impact flagged and money recovered above it. Choose Review finding to open one.

A module's list stays empty until it has checked something. Procure-to-Pay fills first, from one agreement and one invoice, and Order-to-Cash from a customer agreement and the invoices you issued.

Reading a finding

A finding says what it found in the module's own words and, when your plain-words preference is on, explains accounting terms beside them. Its Provenance shows the invoice line, the billed figure against the agreed one, and the agreement clause with the date it took effect, so anyone can check the reasoning. When a finding leans on a default rather than a value you gave, it says so and invites you to correct it.

Dispositions

You answer a finding in one of three ways:

• Accept it, with a note if you like.
• Reject it with the reason. The reason becomes an entry in your Organisational context, scoped to this finding, this subject, this module or the whole company, so the same point is never raised twice. Nothing is learned silently.
• Answer a needs-information finding. Your answer becomes a context entry, and the module tests again.

Every disposition is recorded in the activity ledger with its author and date.

Rejecting a fraud-risk finding

Accepting a fraud-risk finding takes one admin. Rejecting one takes two people: an admin or the Owner rejects it with the reason, a different admin or the Owner approves, and one of the two must be the Owner. Between the two steps the finding shows rejection pending approval and stays open.

A company with a single member cannot reject a fraud-risk finding and is told why. It can still accept it or leave it open. Members and roles explains the Owner.

What findings cost

Nothing. Producing, opening and dispositioning a finding is free. Credits are spent when documents and rows enter the Data Room, as The Data Room explains.