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The Ultimate Intercompany Solution for SAP Users

Finance Automation / Intercompany Accounting
Jan 16, 2019

This holistic, end-to-end solution for intercompany accounting is helping organizations become more proactive in resolving intercompany differences.

How to Build Trust in Controls With Centralized Compliance

Compliance
Jan 15, 2019

Controls enforce trustworthiness. But, as they proliferate throughout an organization, a larger question comes to mind: can the entire control
infrastructure also be trusted?

How to Cure Your Journal Entry Process Pains

BlackLine Products / Finance Automation
Jan 10, 2019

How many journal entries do you complete each month? How much time do you spend on line item adjustments for bank statements? And how much frustration do you experience while hunting through mountains of spreadsheets because of one incorrectly entered...

Best Practices for Managing Your Month-End Close Checklist

Finance Automation / Financial Close Management / Process & Change Management
Jan 9, 2019

A month-end close checklist is critical to ensuring a smooth and successful close process. Consider these four best practices to improve your checklist, and therefore your entire close process.

How to Maintain a Trustworthy Accounting & Finance Organization

Finance Automation / Finance Performance Management / Leadership & Culture
Jan 8, 2019

Maintaining trust is important at all levels of an organization, but trust in Finance, in the numbers, is the first step toward a healthy, trustworthy company.

How Companies Running SAP Are Benefiting from BlackLine’s Journal Entry Solution

Finance Automation / Finance Performance Management
Dec 19, 2018

The biggest differentiator is that BlackLine’s Journal Entry solution integrates with other solutions to create a true end-to-end process and audit trail.

True Automation That Scales With Growing Businesses

Account Reconciliations / Compliance / Finance Automation / Financial Close Management / Intercompany Accounting
Dec 18, 2018

Are you looking for a way to improve your month-end close process, but don’t know where to start? Understandably, investing time and budget into a new technology solution can seem daunting. But there’s often no need to reinvent the wheel,...

How Intercompany Accounting Is Impacting Today’s Organizations

Finance Automation / Intercompany Accounting
Dec 13, 2018

Ernst & Young (EY) is one of the largest professional services and accounting organizations in the world, with network firms that have more than 700 offices in 150 countries. Specializing in assurance, advisory, tax and transaction advisory services, the EY...

A Unique Solution for the Challenges of Transactional Reconciliations

Finance Automation / Finance Performance Management
Dec 12, 2018

Part 8 of our Finance Transformation blog series. Read the full series here. Within many organizations, there are hundreds of accountants performing detailed transactional reconciliations. And in scenarios like a point of sale system that’s tracking purchases, hundreds of thousands or...

BlackLine Reporting: Above & Beyond

Account Reconciliations / Finance Automation / Finance Performance Management
Dec 11, 2018

If you’re using BlackLine Reporting for little more than standard income, balance sheet, and cash flow statements, you’re missing out on a world of added value—value that can streamline auditing, reveal hidden business risks, and optimize process tuning. Here’s how BlackLine Reporting...