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AI ROI for Finance & Accounting

AI ROI your CFO will accept, with costs that tie out to your books.

Every dollar of value traces to its source and an approval. Closing the month can post journals tagging AI bills to the initiatives your allocation rules assign them to, in QuickBooks, NetSuite or Xero.

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The problem

Vendors quote outsized ROI, spreadsheets don't survive turnover, and a dashboard your books have never seen doesn't survive an audit.

Worked example

One month of AI in accounts payable, line by line

Illustrative figures, not a customer's: an AP team on NetSuite with AI capturing, coding and matching vendor bills.

  1. 1

    Price the AP time it freed

    Bill volume comes from your accounting system. Minutes per bill come from a time study of your AP clerks before and after go-live, not from the vendor's case study.

    Vendor bills this month, from NetSuite 4,200
    Minutes per bill, before and after 11.5 → 3.5
    AP cost per hour $40
    Freed capacity $22,400
  2. 2

    Count fewer errors once as time and once as money

    A bill entered right the first time saves the hours spent fixing it, which is capacity. It also keeps money from going out the door, such as a duplicate payment that never comes back, which is cash. Two formulas split the same fall in the error rate, so nothing is counted twice.

    Bills entered with an error, before and after 3% → 1%
    Errors avoided 84
    Time to correct them, at $45 each: freed capacity $3,780
    Money lost per error, from last year's recovery audit $180
    Losses avoided: cash value $15,120
  3. 3

    Count as cash only what a document shows

    The AP team is paid the same, so freed time isn't cash. Agency temps you stopped paying for are, recorded for the month with the invoice cited, and never more than the capacity approved for that month.

    Freed capacity, steps 1 and 2 $26,180
    2 agency temps not renewed, agency invoice cited $12,400
    Capacity not yet cash $13,780
  4. 4

    Set it against everything the AI costs

    Your NetSuite license isn't counted: you pay for it either way. The platform's bill reaches the initiative from your books through an allocation rule.

    AP automation platform $7,500
    Model usage for bill capture, from OpenAI's Admin API $1,100
    AP lead reviewing exceptions: 30 hours × $55 $1,650
    Total cost $10,250
  5. 5

    Close the month and post it

    Locking the month freezes its costs and approved value. With GL posting set up, it also posts a journal to NetSuite tagging the platform's bill to this initiative's department, and reopening, which takes a reason, posts its reversal. Either way the figure in this month's board pack only changes on the record.

    Cash value: losses avoided and temps not renewed $27,520
    Cost $10,250
    Net cash, frozen at close $17,270
Cash value
$27,520
Cost
$10,250
Cash ROI
168%
Capacity not yet cash
$13,780
Beside the ROI, not in it

Priced as savings, the same month reads 303%. The difference is AP time no budget has shown yet.

None of it counts until a person approves it. A calculated figure keeps its versioned formula and a snapshot of its inputs, and a figure a person recorded keeps who recorded it and the document it cites. What makes a figure auditable →

What a reviewer sees in Roiva

Step 3 as Roiva records it: freed capacity counted as cash for one month, citing the staffing agency's orders, recorded by one person and approved by another. The month is closed, so the entry can't change until someone reopens it with a reason.

A Roiva value entry for capacity realized as cash: the supporting document it cites, the amount, the notes, who recorded it and who approved it, under a banner saying the month is locked.
The temps step above as a cash entry in Roiva's demo account, a fictional company.

Example initiatives

What teams are tracking with Roiva

A few of the initiative templates ready to deploy from the in-app library. Each ships with its formulas and the integrations it reads, and takes its baseline from your own history where your systems hold it.

AI invoice processing

Minutes per bill before and after, from a time study, × the bills in your books × your AP rate, as freed capacity. Fewer bills entered wrong frees the rework time too; the duplicate payments they keep from going out count as cash, through the library's loss-avoidance formula.

Automated close

Reconciliation hours saved per close × closes in the period × your accounting rate, as freed capacity. Days off the close are priced at a daily cost of late reporting you set, and stay capacity, not cash.

AI cash flow forecasting

Treasury hours saved per forecast, as capacity. Better forecast accuracy counts as cash, at your cost of capital on the idle cash it frees, for the share of the change you credit to the AI. Roiva ships no default for that share.

Billing error reduction

Fewer billing disputes: the time spent resolving them as freed capacity, and disputes settled sooner valued at your cost of capital on the cash they held up.

Connects to

Works with the systems you already run

The integrations most relevant to Finance & Accounting initiatives, and what Roiva does with each one.

QuickBooks, NetSuite, Xero

AI bills and expenses, booked to initiatives by vendor mapping or allocation rule. Closing a month posts a journal tagging each bill an allocation rule booked to its initiatives' class, department, location or tracking category.

OpenAI, Anthropic

Model spend from each provider's own cost report, booked to the initiative that ran it, OpenAI by project and Anthropic by workspace.

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Cloud spend on the AI services an initiative runs on, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and Vertex AI included, put on initiatives by tag, budget or service.

Stripe

Roiva books the revenue your AI product brings in from the Stripe customers you map to it, net of refunds and tax, at your margin, charge by charge.

American Express

Roiva books the AI subscriptions people put on American Express cards, by merchant, from the statements you import, so seats reach their initiatives.

Snowflake

Roiva books the Snowflake spend behind each AI initiative, Cortex AI by service type, and feeds figures from your own tables into its formulas.

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Common questions

AI ROI for Finance & Accounting — FAQ

What makes Roiva's AI ROI calculations audit-defensible?
Every value entry says where it came from. A calculated entry keeps the versioned formula and a snapshot of its inputs, so if you change the formula six months later, prior calculations keep the formula and inputs they were computed against. A synced entry keeps the connection and the IDs of the source records behind it; for a month of deflected tickets, that is the full count and a sample of the IDs. An entry a person made names who made it, their notes, and the documents they cite, or shows that it cites none. None of it is reported until it's approved.
Does Roiva count hours saved as savings?
No. Hours your team got back, priced at a labor rate, are freed capacity: payroll is the same afterwards, so Roiva reports them beside cash value and keeps them out of every ROI. Cash is revenue gained at your contribution margin, costs that fell and losses avoided. Freed capacity becomes cash only when someone records what changed for a month (a hire not made, a contract not renewed, overtime that fell) and cites the document that shows it, up to the capacity approved for that month. Each formula in the library says which it books.
Does Roiva post journal entries back to my accounting system?
Yes, for AI costs. When you prepare a month, Roiva builds a journal for each bill an allocation rule booked to initiatives: it moves the bill's amount off the account it was booked to and back onto the same account under each initiative's class, department, location or tracking category, so it balances account by account. Once GL posting is set up, locking the month posts the journals to QuickBooks, NetSuite or Xero. If a post fails, the month stays unlocked and the entry says why. Reopening a month takes a reason and posts a reversal for each journal. A bill a vendor mapping booked gets no journal; tag it in your books. Value isn't posted: approved value is reported in Roiva, not booked to your ledger.
How does Roiva track AI infrastructure costs across providers?
Roiva syncs billed spend from Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub, cloud cost from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and platform spend from Snowflake and Databricks. Spend is attributed to initiatives by AWS cost-allocation tag, Azure resource tag, GCP budget, service-name mapping, a fixed share, or an allocation rule. Spend no initiative claims is not spread across them to make the total add up: it shows as unattributed, in dollars. Where the same dollar reaches Roiva twice, such as Databricks usage that also appears on your Azure bill, Roiva either leaves the duplicate out or, where it cannot safely tell them apart, counts both and reports the overlap on its AI Spend page, under May be counted twice. Roiva sees only what you connect, so AI bought on a card that was never wired up stays outside the total.
Can Roiva track budget vs. actual for each AI initiative?
Yes. When an initiative is approved, Roiva records its budget: a CapEx total and an OpEx rate, taken from the business case as it stood at approval. Every cost entry from then on is counted against it, per initiative and across the portfolio. A revision is a new version with a reason, never an edit, and an increase that takes a budget above your approval threshold waits for an Owner before it applies.
What can we hand to the board and the auditors?
The Board Brief, a PDF of the quarter for the board pack. For auditors, each locked month has a reconciliation (source bills, what's allocated and what isn't, and the journals posted) and a PBC packet: a ZIP with a cover sheet and CSVs of the month's summary, allocation rules, allocations, source bills, journal entries and audit log. An auditor link gives your external auditor read-only access to every locked month without a Roiva account, for as long as you set, and logs each visit.
Does Roiva support multi-currency or international finance teams?
Partly. Roiva reports in US dollars. Value a connection books in another currency, such as a deal won in euros, counts at the European Central Bank's average rate over its period once the ECB has published it, and is left out of the totals until then. Cost in another currency counts at the latest rate until then, marked provisional, and moves to the average. A currency the ECB doesn't publish is left out of the totals and named. There is no reporting currency other than dollars yet, and costs and value typed or imported by hand are in dollars.

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