Why your P&L is three weeks old (and whose fault that isn't).

The lag is a pipeline problem

When a report is three weeks stale, the instinct is to blame the bookkeeper. But the delay almost never lives in a person. It lives between systems: receipts waiting to be forwarded, feeds waiting to be matched, queries waiting for a reply.

Close the gaps in the pipeline and the report catches up on its own. even keeps each stage moving the moment the previous one finishes, which is why the P&L reads like this morning instead of last month.