For most Xero finance teams, the close isn’t slow because of the accounting. It’s slow because of the approval chain. Invoices sit unopened for days. No one’s sure who needs to act. Finance spends the last week of the month chasing rather than closing. The Icehouse investment firm was losing 40+ hours a week to exactly this before automating approvals through ApprovalMax. The fix isn’t working harder through close. It’s removing the friction before it gets there. Automated workflows route every invoice to the right approver based on pre-set rules. Your team sees what’s pending, what’s approved, and where the delays are, and well before the deadline arrives. Read the five steps Xero finance teams are using to close faster without cutting corners 👇