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The Accounting Constitution

A living, company-specific system of accounting rules, reasoning, exceptions, responsibilities and evidence. It records not only what your company does, but why—and it is applied continuously to the work.

Built from your Vault, not from a template Every treatment explainable and traceable Confirmed by your team, kept current by use
Anatomy of a treatment rule

Eight things every rule carries.

A Constitution rule is not a line in a policy document. It is a structured object your team can read, challenge and confirm.

Amazon Web Services · Reserved capacity Supplier treatment
WHENA reserved-capacity commitment exceeds 12 months and €5,000
THENTreat as prepaid infrastructure and amortise over the contractual term
WHYThe economic benefit extends beyond the current period; consistent with 14 previously validated entries
EXCEPTIONCapacity directly attributable to qualifying product development routes to capitalisation review
What it holds

Organized the way your operation is organized.

Accounting judgment

Treatments, thresholds, exceptions and the reasoning behind each decision—captured as reviewable rules.

ExampleReserved capacity → Prepaid

Dossiers

Every supplier, GL account and cost center keeps its own file: confirmed treatments, observed patterns, open questions.

ExampleAWS · 3 treatments · 86%

Company structure

Entities, jurisdictions, currencies, intercompany relationships and ERP connections—how the group actually fits together.

Example5 entities · 12 links

Workflows

Mapped processes with owners, systems, handoffs and escalation—observed from real work, confirmed by your team.

ExampleSupplier invoice coding · 7 steps

Learned vs confirmed

Centinel separates what it has observed from what your team has validated. Only confirmed knowledge governs.

Observed → Confirmed

Materiality & confidence

Every answer and action carries a confidence score and a materiality weight—so attention goes where the money is.

ExampleHigh · 94% · €48,600
Evidence trails

Every treatment traces back to its source.

A rule is only as good as the evidence behind it. Each Constitution entry links to the invoices, contracts, historical entries and conversations that produced it—so your controller, and your auditor, can verify the chain.

Evidence chain · Reserved capacity rule
SOURCE
Weekly AP review · 18 Jul 2026“Treat it as prepaid infrastructure and amortise it over the commitment.”
RECORDS
INV-2026-0418 · MSA-AWS-2025Invoice and supplier contract confirming an 18-month term
HISTORY
14 comparable entriesPreviously validated postings with the same pattern
SIGN-OFF
María López · ControllerRule validated 6 Apr 2026 · re-checked on every application
A living system

The Constitution stays current because it is used.

Every audit outcome, reviewed correction and confirmed exception feeds back into the Constitution. It powers two surfaces:

Work

Continuous audit of your books

Centinel runs the Constitution against accounting activity as it lands—flagging conflicts, proposing corrections with evidence, and routing material items for approval.

3,787 entries audited · 13 issues open · 100% coverage
AI interactions

Grounded answers and agents

Ask Centinel how something should be accounted for and the answer cites your rules, your exceptions and your evidence—with confidence and materiality attached. Agents work inside the same boundaries.

“How should the €48,600 AWS invoice be accounted for?”

See your own Constitution take shape.

Centinel begins with the records and files you already have.

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