Part 3 of the Risk of Manual Processes blog series. You can access the full series here. Top accounting and finance professionals are in a powerful position. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for accountants is predicted to rise...
Among line-of-business executives, the enterprise accounting function has always carried a kind of mystique. Accountants come up with the numbers, then hand them off to the CFO, controllers, and the business and operations managers who require input for budgeting and...
The vast majority of organisations, irrespective of their size, industry sector or geographic location, spend significant amounts of time manually checking and matching transactions, preparing and posting journals to complete their bank reconciliations. Depending on the requirements of the business...
You can do some pretty useful things with Excel. Templates offer hundreds of ways to organize, budget, chart, invoice, and manage data. Need to be reimbursed for that business trip? Use the preformatted Expense Report. Want to track income and...
Connecticut-based Hubbell is a $3.5 billion manufacturer of electrical and electronic products for the construction, industrial, and utility markets. Thanks to an aggressive acquisition history since its founding in the late 1880’s, Hubbell today operates manufacturing facilities, joint ventures, and...
We live in a diverse financial world. While there is wide variation in corporations’ financial structure, what is universal is the ceaseless pressure put on all organizations to push their margins. This pressure intensifies an organization’s focus on operational agility...
With more than 30 offices across the US, Nashville-based Vaco is one of the nation’s largest private accounting and finance consulting firms. It’s also one of the fastest-growing. The company’s sales grew 65 percent over the past three years, and...
Looking for best-practices guidelines for using reconciliations or task management? Want to see the latest documentation for the Intercompany Hub? Want more communication with other customers or BlackLine experts? Or perhaps you have an idea for improving BlackLine, and you’d...
Throughout 2016, some of the greatest innovation in business happened at the intersection of finance and technology. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) was introduced into the modern business world, along with always advancing cloud technology and process automation tools. The key...
Progress often begins with a vision. This is how automation was introduced to corporate accounting, creating the revolutionary shift that is taking place within organizations. It opened the door for Continuous Accounting, an approach that embeds close activities throughout the...
Robotic Process Automation is close to a technological marvel. It captures data from different applications to process every accounting transaction, and its benefit to accounting efficiency is undeniable. But to think robots are a replacement for human beings is folly....
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