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.
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...
Several recent surveys point to the importance of process automation. A Deloitte study1 asserts that increasing automation is the second most important strategic priority for shared services leaders and a separate McKinsey study2 puts “automation” in the top six priorities...
A 2015 study1 by IDC, the analyst, says that the worldwide market for financial application software grew at a rapid pace to reach $18.0 billion, driven by demand for public cloud offerings. Its author says, “The demand for the cloud...
Repetition may be the mother of learning, but in almost all other instances repetitive actions or behaviors are imbued with negativity. Doesn’t repetition conjure images of mindlessness, boredom, and inefficiency? Does it make you think go-getting, entrepreneurial, progressive? No, it...
A few days ago I was speaking to someone about my time as a CFA. I said that had I known about BlackLine when I was in a full full-blown accounting role, I probably would have stayed in the profession....
Over the last 20 or so years ERP solutions have been developing to meet ever wider business needs. Finance transaction processing has remained at the core of these solutions, but ERP vendors have grown their footprint within companies with an...
2015 has certainly been an exciting year thus far, and expectations are that it won’t be tailing off anytime soon. I had the privilege of speaking in front of hundreds of professionals at dozens of events on the topic of...
The development of digital technologies has disrupted organizations across industries by remodeling their fundamental business operations. It has catapulted small start-ups to unanticipated fame, and challenged large organizations to re-invent themselves. Finance organizations will not escape the upheaval, especially as...
You’re the star of the story! Choose between infinite endings! You stand at the entrance, bracing yourself to cross that threshold into the wild west of the month-end close. You’ve been here before, braved the non-stop onslaught of paper andthree-ringg...
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