A comment layer on records, judged honestly. It keeps the reasoning with the entry. It is not an internal chat platform and it will not shorten your close.
Bank feeds remove the matching. They do not remove the judgment. What a cash management implementation actually involves, and the five decisions that decide whether reconciliation shrinks or just moves.
Your budget model is worth keeping. The thirty copies of it are not. What a planning implementation actually replaces, and what it leaves for your team to design.
AR automation covers invoicing, approval, delivery and follow-up. Here is which parts genuinely remove work, which depend on decisions outside finance, and the order to implement them in.
Program spend, burn rate and grant reporting have to come out of the ledger, not a spreadsheet beside it. Here is what to decide before configuration, and what changes after go-live.
AP automation removes the handoffs, not the judgement. Here is what the workflow really looks like, and the vendor master work nobody budgets for.
Core financials is sold as a module list. What matters is which parts of your month-end disappear, which parts move to a different owner, and which get harder first.