Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen

In this episode:

• Welcome to Pivot Finance for Monday, May 11th, 2026. I'm Marcus Bell.

• And I'm Nora Chen. If you run a close, a forecast, or a payables shop, today's stories hit your Q3 budget directly. Let's get into it.

• Top of the show: Workday rolled out its 'Autonomous Close' module to general availability this morning, three months ahead of schedule. Pricing lands ...

• The two-day claim deserves scrutiny. Reporting indicates the AI handles roughly 78% of intercompany eliminations and accrual journals autonomously, bu...

• Right, and Workday is explicit that the agent operates inside SOX boundaries — every journal carries an immutable audit trail with model version, prom...

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