Industry giant British Gas has been taking care of others for more than 200 years. They supply energy and other services to nearly 11 million residential homes with an ultimate customer base of 28 million customers. When the company decided...
The goal of any business function is to fulfill its obligations as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. For accounting and finance staff, this objective has been hampered by the historic paper-based nature of the processes that accountants undertake in closing...
Under Armour, Inc. knows all about keeping cool. Based on its ability to deliver a better mousetrap – or, specifically, a better approach to the problem of sweaty T-shirts and undergarments for high-energy athletes – the multi-billion dollar company has...
We CFOs are in the measurement business. To assess our organizations’ financial stability and progress, we rely on an alphabet soup of metrics—EPS, ROE, ROI and EBITDA, to cite a few acronyms. But there is an equally pressing need to...
For today’s business, the challenge of geographical growth is less daunting than ever before. Technology makes setting up a new storefront nearly as easy as putting up a website. Hiring a new sales agent? Due diligence, thanks to social media...
Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. When you see how well Santa Clara-based Connor Group has done since its 2006 start, it’s no surprise that the accounting firm’s specialty is servicing high-growth clients. The company, which is...
Utah-based Pluralsight, an online learning company with more than 4,500 professional technology-training courses and three million worldwide users, wanted to streamline their financial reconciliation process to accommodate business growth. The company had recently upgraded its ERP system, but it was...
More than 70 volunteers carried, pounded, sawed and bolted their way through two Giving Back projects during November’s BlackLine User Conference in Atlanta. The volunteers consisted of BlackLine customers, partners and employees who spent the day before the event working...
BlackLine’s InTheBlack 2015 Conference was a major success! Just this past November, BlackLine clients, prospects, partners, and experts descended on Atlanta to bring together all things BlackLine. The conference theme of ‘Now. New. Next.’ delivered excellent content that gave the...
Financial statement fraud is rare, but when it does occur the financial and reputational damage can be devastating. Individuals in private and public businesses have committed financial statement fraud, their reasons ranging from a need to secure bank financing or...
Now that its 2013 Internal Control Framework has been embraced and adopted by business, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission is in the process of following up with a second framework revision; this one for the Enterprise...
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