As look ahead to 2021, it’s critical to use what we’ve learned this year to prepare for the year ahead. Here are our predictions for F&A organizations in 2021.
Emmanuel “Manny” Korakis had been on the job only four months when he spoke with BlackLine Magazine, his job being CFO of S&P Dow Jones Indices, one of the world’s leading providers of financial market indices and home to the...
Since 1841, Dun & Bradstreet has been a trusted provider of commercial data to business, addressing such traditional information needs as counter-party risk exposure and credit history, as well as more modern social-identity matching. Today, nearly 90 percent of the...
Diane Romualdez is BlackLine’s director of corporate events. At any given moment she’s watching over trade shows, seminars, conferences and other events. She estimates that her group handles about 200 events in a year. And the number keeps growing. Chief...
The practice of accounting is orderly, measured, and demands the highest levels of precision and accuracy. The new COSO framework, however, is somewhat the opposite. First announced in 2013 and still under adoption by some, it’s more interpretative than specific,...
Today’s CFOs are being held to a higher standard than ever before, whether in terms of the technology and other equipment their organizations buy, the people who are hired, or the processes that are put in place to seize competitive...
Modern Finance delivers transformative benefits for financial processes of all types. This year’s announcements demonstrate how Modern Finance can benefit users at all levels of the enterprise: Process Analytics Automation is the beginning, not the endpoint, of Modern Finance process...
The second law of thermodynamics states that left to its own devices, everything in the world tends to disorder——and so it is with systems. Take any reasonably large enterprise and you will often find a staggering amount of systems, processes,...
The state of finance is rapidly evolving. Finance and accounting departments are under increased pressure to produce real-time intelligence and forward-looking analysis to support business decisions. This, coupled with dramatic shifts in business models and regulatory environments, are forcing organizations...
This article originally appeared on CFO.com Ever wonder where the term, the “last mile” of finance, originated? This oft-used phrase to describe the month’s worth of work painfully squeezed into a few days to close the books refers to the...
Last year in Chicago BlackLine introduced a new vision for the accounting and finance profession. It’s called Modern Finance, and it’s changing business – your business – in ways that might not have seemed possible a few years ago. This...
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