Case study · Communications & advertising · India · Pilot · 2 months

₹23 lakh recovered in 8 weeks — from books nobody had time to check

Spreadsheet accounting, audited and cleaned by AI.

A leading India-based communications company ran most of its accounting in spreadsheets — so duplicate invoices, missing entries and manual errors quietly piled up. In a two-month pilot, Acenra reconciled the books end-to-end and surfaced ₹23 lakh (about $27,000) in leaked and recoverable spend — running a reconciliation that would take staff 10–12 days in about 8 minutes.

₹23 lakh

≈ $27,000

recovered in the first 2 months

8 min

vs. 10–12 days by hand

to fully reconcile the books

100%

duplicates & gaps

of invoice errors surfaced

The challenge

  • Most of the company's accounting lived in spreadsheets, updated by hand across teams.
  • Manual entry meant duplicate invoices, missing entries and errors that quietly accumulated.
  • Catching it the old way meant a person combing the books for 10–12 days — so it rarely happened.

What Acenra did

  • Connected Acenra to the company's spreadsheets and accounting records.
  • Ran a full reconciliation across invoices, payments and ledgers in a single pass.
  • Flagged every duplicate, missing entry and mismatch — with the source row for each, ready to fix.

The results

  • ₹23 lakh (≈ $27,000) in duplicate and recoverable spend identified within two months.
  • A reconciliation that would take staff 10–12 days completed in about 8 minutes.
  • Duplicate invoices and missing entries caught before they compounded — books trusted again.
We assumed our books were fine. Acenra found lakhs we were quietly losing — in minutes, not weeks.
Finance lead · Communications & advertising company (India)

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