Which work would you hand over?

Prepares month-end account reconciliation letters, collects the replies and brings you each difference with its cause.

At the start of each week tells finance about the coming maturities of cheques and notes in portfolio, endorsed or sent for collection, and those past due and still open.

Tells sales and finance about customers whose open balance, open orders and cheques in portfolio approach or exceed their credit limit.

Tells the customer about a late sales order before they ask; a person in your company confirms the date.

Spots a customer whose buying rhythm dropped and tells your sales people the likely cause; it never writes to the customer.

Confirms delivery dates of open orders with suppliers, asks for a delay's new date and follows it.

Gathers open purchase requests by supplier and puts each order proposal up for your approval.

Tells purchasing, with the likely cause, in one e-mail a day when a purchase price strays from the last purchase.

Every month scores suppliers on on-time delivery, quantity, delay and price variance; sends the scorecard to purchasing.

Spots production orders that are late or stalled and tells the person responsible, with the likely cause.

Every Monday reads last week's scrap slips; compares scrap with production and planned consumption and reports it next to the previous week.

Watches critical stock, count differences and slow movers; reports each variance with its likely cause.

For items below minimum stock, puts an order proposal based on consumption and lead time up for your approval.

Ranks idle and ageing stock by value and suggests what could be done with each item.

Finds sales delivery notes still not invoiced after the deadline and tells accounting.

Every Monday prepares the sales, collections and stock summary; writes the commentary and what to watch.

Every week builds a 13-week cash forecast from receivable, payable and cheque due dates and shows a shortfall early.

Every month compares actuals with the budget and reports each significant variance with its cause.

Every month reads annual leave balances from Logo payroll and summarises accrued, untaken, negative and below-legal leave for HR. It never writes to an employee.

Before payment reads the month's payroll from Logo, compares every employee with the previous month and tells HR about unexplained pay changes, joiners and leavers, missing payslips, zero net pay and unusual overtime or deductions.

Reads incoming invoices, checks them against the order and delivery note, prepares a draft for posting in Logo.

Matches bank transactions to customers and invoices; lists the unmatched ones with their likely cause.

At month end lists unusual journal entries, accounts with a reversed balance and invoice-to-voucher mismatches for accounting to review.

Prioritises due supplier payables against the cash position and puts the weekly payment list draft up for finance approval.

At the start of the month works out the totals per account that go into the BA/BS forms and lists missing tax numbers and inconsistencies for accounting.

Watches open quotes, gets back to the customer at the right time, records the decision and the reason for a loss.

Finds prospective companies in your target sector and region, prepares a first-contact note.

Tells the sales manager about sales lines invoiced below the price list or with an unusual discount.

Reads an order that arrives by e-mail, matches it to customer and item cards and puts the order draft up for sales approval.

Tells purchasing about lines where quantity or price differs between the purchase invoice, the order and the delivery note.

Calculates material requirements from orders and bills of materials, puts the purchase proposal up for your approval.

Every week reports incoming, in-process and final inspection rejection rates by supplier and item.

Tells the warehouse, per warehouse, about items that fell to a negative balance or have a zero or unusual unit cost.

Every month lists duplicate accounts, missing tax numbers and e-mails, and item cards without a unit or VAT.

Every week summarises the open position per currency from foreign-currency receivables, payables, bank and cash balances, and the effect of a rate change.

Asks a new employee for missing onboarding documents, collects them and tells HR once the file is complete.

Tells HR before documents such as safety training, health reports and driver certificates (SRC) expire.

Reports the total severance liability from length of service and the legal ceiling, and its change from the previous month, to HR and finance.