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Speed Up Decision-Making with AskGloria + Xero

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For growing businesses, maintaining a clear picture of your financial health is both essential and increasingly complex. With data spread across systems and manual processes slowing down reporting cycles, finance teams often spend more time gathering information than acting on it. That’s where AskGloria and Xero come together—streamlining access to real-time financial insights and empowering businesses to make faster, better decisions.

The Challenge: Fragmented Financial Data

Finance teams in SMEs and large organisations alike struggle with fragmented data. According to research by Xero, 52% of small business owners cite cash flow visibility as a major challenge (Xero, 2022). Spreadsheets, reports, and invoices are often stored across different systems and folders, creating inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and delayed responses to business-critical questions. As a result, finance professionals often find themselves in a reactive mode—focused on gathering and consolidating numbers rather than analysing and acting on them.

A Smarter Way to Work: AskGloria + Xero Integration

By connecting directly to your Xero account, AskGloria acts as an intelligent financial assistant—retrieving, analysing, and surfacing information in real time. Instead of digging through records or waiting on monthly reports, finance professionals can simply ask questions like “What is our VAT liability this quarter?” or “Which customers have overdue invoices?” and get instant, accurate answers. This integration turns Xero from a standard accounting platform into a live decision-support tool.

Key Benefits of AskGloria + Xero Integration

  • Instant access to real-time financial data—no more waiting for reports or manual exports

  • Improved accuracy by eliminating copy-paste errors and outdated spreadsheet versions

  • Faster financial decisions based on up-to-date figures and trends

  • Smarter cash flow management through instant tracking of payments, liabilities, and invoices

  • Time savings of up to 15–20 hours per week per team, previously spent searching or consolidating data (IDC, 2023)

  • Better collaboration by enabling team members outside finance to access relevant financial insights without direct access to Xero

Real-World Applications

A typical finance manager might spend several hours each week consolidating invoices, cross-referencing bank feeds, and updating cash flow spreadsheets. With AskGloria, these time-consuming tasks are reduced to seconds. For example, generating a customer-specific profit and loss report or identifying overdue supplier payments becomes as simple as asking a question. This enables faster responses, more accurate forecasting, and fewer surprises during financial close.

Strategic Impact Beyond the Finance Team

Connecting AskGloria to Xero doesn’t just save time—it creates strategic value across the organisation. With real-time access to reliable financial data, decision-makers are empowered to plan proactively, assess opportunities faster, and allocate resources more efficiently. Finance teams can focus more on strategic analysis and forecasting instead of getting stuck in low-value, repetitive tasks. Over time, this shift helps finance evolve from a purely operational function into a driver of business growth.

Looking Ahead

As AskGloria continues to evolve, future updates will include even deeper integration with accounting tools, visual dashboards, and support for non-finance queries that reference financial data—such as performance metrics by team or departmental spending against budget.

Conclusion

AskGloria’s integration with Xero brings speed, clarity, and intelligence to financial management. Whether you’re chasing overdue payments, reviewing profit margins, or preparing for your next board meeting, AskGloria ensures you have the answers you need—instantly. For any business looking to scale efficiently and make smarter financial decisions, connecting AskGloria to Xero is a clear next step.

References

Xero. (2022). The State of Small Business Cash Flow. Retrieved from: https://www.xero.com/uk/resources/reports/cash-flow-report/

IDC. (2023). The High Cost of Not Finding Information. Retrieved from: https://www.idc.com