The Defensibility Problem: Why Most Finance AI Fails the Audit Test

  • Kaushik Venkatraman
  • July 14, 2026
  • 9 min read

The Problem Nobody Talks About  Today, new finance AI tools are launching faster than most teams can evaluate them.  Yet adoption among enterprise finance teams, especially for anything that touches the month-end close, remains cautious. Sometimes even resistant.  I’m Kaushik, co-founder and CPO at Consark. A significant part of my role sits in pre-sales conversations with finance teams evaluating […]

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The Accrual Problem Nobody Talks About (Until Close Week)

  • Kaushik Venkatraman
  • July 6, 2026
  • 4 min read

Every CFO organization has a quiet ritual that repeats itself month after month: the accrual scramble. But beneath the scramble lies the same accrual problem – estimating costs without certainty, chasing inputs, and defending decisions long after close. 1. You’re estimating in the dark, because the invoice hasn’t shown up yet Accruals exist for one […]

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