{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Accounting Management System",
  "lang": "en",
  "prd": {
    "oneLiner": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
    "goal": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
    "whyNow": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
    "category": "Internal operations system",
    "platforms": [
      "Web"
    ],
    "problem": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
    "solution": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
    "alternatives": "Email, chat, spreadsheets, and manual ledgers",
    "differentiator": "Manage intake, processing, and operations data as one connected source of truth.",
    "targets": [
      {
        "name": "Accounting practitioner and leader managing transactions and close evidence",
        "role": "Requester and operational user",
        "needs": "Quickly register needed work and know its status.",
        "pain": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate."
      },
      {
        "name": "Accounting and finance operations coordinator",
        "role": "Operations administrator",
        "needs": "Manage priority and history and review operations metrics.",
        "pain": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate."
      },
      {
        "name": "System and policy administrator",
        "role": "Operations and security administrator",
        "needs": "Manage access, policy, and audit history.",
        "pain": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate."
      }
    ],
    "scenarios": [
      {
        "text": "An operational user registers required work and checks its status.",
        "start": "P1"
      },
      {
        "text": "An operator processes queued work and handles exceptions.",
        "start": "P5"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews policy and access.",
        "start": "P9"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews audit records and operating metrics.",
        "start": "P10"
      }
    ],
    "northStar": "Share of operations requests completed on time",
    "kpis": [
      {
        "name": "On-time processing rate",
        "target": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly aggregation of state changes against target dates",
        "refs": [
          "F6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Operations visibility",
        "target": "100% of key work tracked",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Share of records connected to reporting",
        "refs": [
          "F11"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Auditable operations rate",
        "target": "100% of key changes retained",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly audit-log and change-history review",
        "refs": [
          "F12"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "inScope": [
      "Chart of accounts, counterparty, journal, evidence, and close-calendar registration",
      "Journal, ledger, receivable and payable, evidence, and close-status lookup",
      "Journal preparation, review, approval, adjustment, close, and correction handling",
      "Profit and loss, financial position, cash flow, open journal, and close reporting",
      "Chart of accounts, counterparty, journal, evidence, and close-calendar registration validation and duplicate prevention",
      "Search, filter, and history management",
      "Owner, priority, and SLA management",
      "Approval and policy review",
      "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing",
      "Notifications and subscriptions",
      "External integration and data synchronization",
      "Role, permission, and audit management"
    ],
    "nonGoals": [
      "External customer portal",
      "Replacing adjacent systems such as accounting or payroll"
    ],
    "assumptions": [
      "User and organization data are available through company SSO.",
      "Operators manage policy and classification criteria."
    ],
    "risks": [
      "Weak initial classification can cause incorrect processing.",
      "Stale source data can reduce operational trust."
    ],
    "openQuestions": [
      "What defines urgent processing and approval?",
      "What are the post-completion verification and reopen rules?"
    ],
    "constraints": [
      "State, owner, and priority changes require audit logs.",
      "Access is limited by role.",
      "Permission, policy, and state changes require audit logs."
    ]
  },
  "requirements": [
    {
      "id": "R1",
      "title": "Intake and data quality",
      "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F1",
          "title": "Chart of accounts, counterparty, journal, evidence, and close-calendar registration",
          "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Chart of accounts, counterparty, journal, evidence, and close-calendar registration core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Chart of accounts, counterparty, journal, evidence, and close-calendar registration exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F2",
          "title": "Chart of accounts, counterparty, journal, evidence, and close-calendar registration validation and duplicate prevention",
          "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Chart of accounts, counterparty, journal, evidence, and close-calendar registration validation and duplicate prevention core processing rule",
              "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Chart of accounts, counterparty, journal, evidence, and close-calendar registration validation and duplicate prevention exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "R2",
      "title": "Records and search",
      "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F3",
          "title": "Journal, ledger, receivable and payable, evidence, and close-status lookup",
          "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Journal, ledger, receivable and payable, evidence, and close-status lookup core processing rule",
              "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Journal, ledger, receivable and payable, evidence, and close-status lookup exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F4",
          "title": "Search, filter, and history management",
          "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Search, filter, and history management exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "R3",
      "title": "Processing and ownership",
      "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F5",
          "title": "Journal preparation, review, approval, adjustment, close, and correction handling",
          "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Journal preparation, review, approval, adjustment, close, and correction handling core processing rule",
              "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Journal preparation, review, approval, adjustment, close, and correction handling exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F6",
          "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management",
          "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management core processing rule",
              "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Owner, priority, and SLA management exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "R4",
      "title": "Approval and exceptions",
      "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F7",
          "title": "Approval and policy review",
          "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "mid",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Approval and policy review core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Approval and policy review exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F8",
          "title": "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing",
          "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "mid",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing core processing rule",
              "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "R5",
      "title": "Notifications and integrations",
      "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "mid",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F9",
          "title": "Notifications and subscriptions",
          "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Notifications and subscriptions core processing rule",
              "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Notifications and subscriptions exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F10",
          "title": "External integration and data synchronization",
          "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "External integration and data synchronization core processing rule",
              "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "External integration and data synchronization exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Connect the chart of accounts, transactions, journals, evidence, approvals, adjustments, close activities, and financial reporting. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "R6",
      "title": "Insights and controls",
      "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "mid",
      "acceptance": [
        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "F11",
          "title": "Profit and loss, financial position, cash flow, open journal, and close reporting",
          "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "high",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Profit and loss, financial position, cash flow, open journal, and close reporting core processing rule",
              "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Profit and loss, financial position, cash flow, open journal, and close reporting exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Journals, evidence, approvals, receivables, payables, and close work reside in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, making financial figures hard to substantiate. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "F12",
          "title": "Role, permission, and audit management",
          "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
          "status": "todo",
          "priority": "mid",
          "acceptance": [
            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
          ],
          "specs": [
            {
              "title": "Role, permission, and audit management core processing rule",
              "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "title": "Role, permission, and audit management exception and audit handling",
              "desc": "Improve traceability of close evidence and reduce open journals and manual adjustment time. Retain change, failure, and reprocessing conditions with history.",
              "acceptance": [
                {
                  "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
                  "done": false
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
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      {
        "id": "S1",
        "title": "Intake and data quality",
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          {
            "id": "P1",
            "title": "Operations dashboard",
            "type": "top",
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              "F1:0",
              "F3",
              "F4:0",
              "F7:1",
              "F11"
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            "children": []
          },
          {
            "id": "P2",
            "title": "Work list",
            "type": "page",
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              "F3",
              "F3:0",
              "F4",
              "F1:0",
              "F4:1",
              "F8",
              "F11:0"
            ],
            "children": []
          },
          {
            "id": "P3",
            "title": "Create record",
            "type": "page",
            "refs": [
              "F1",
              "F1:1",
              "F2",
              "F5",
              "F8:0",
              "F11:1"
            ],
            "children": []
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "S2",
        "title": "Records and search",
        "pages": [
          {
            "id": "P4",
            "title": "Record detail",
            "type": "page",
            "refs": [
              "F3:1",
              "F4:1",
              "F11",
              "F2",
              "F5:0",
              "F8:1",
              "F12"
            ],
            "children": []
          },
          {
            "id": "P5",
            "title": "Processing workspace",
            "type": "page",
            "refs": [
              "F5",
              "F5:0",
              "F6",
              "F2:0",
              "F5:1",
              "F9",
              "F12:0"
            ],
            "children": []
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "S3",
        "title": "Processing and ownership",
        "pages": [
          {
            "id": "P6",
            "title": "Approval and exception queue",
            "type": "page",
            "refs": [
              "F7",
              "F7:0",
              "F8",
              "F2:1",
              "F6",
              "F9:0",
              "F12:1"
            ],
            "children": []
          },
          {
            "id": "P7",
            "title": "Notifications and integrations",
            "type": "page",
            "refs": [
              "F9",
              "F9:0",
              "F10",
              "F3",
              "F6:0",
              "F9:1"
            ],
            "children": []
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "S4",
        "title": "Insights and controls",
        "pages": [
          {
            "id": "P8",
            "title": "Operations reports",
            "type": "page",
            "refs": [
              "F11",
              "F11:0",
              "F3:0",
              "F6:1",
              "F10"
            ],
            "children": []
          },
          {
            "id": "P9",
            "title": "Policy and access settings",
            "type": "page",
            "refs": [
              "F10:1",
              "F12",
              "F3:1",
              "F7",
              "F10:0"
            ],
            "children": []
          },
          {
            "id": "P10",
            "title": "Audit log",
            "type": "page",
            "refs": [
              "F8:1",
              "F12:0",
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