Close faster with complete and accurate results.
Empower Accounting to manage and control the end-to-end financial close process by automating accounting workflows, providing a centralized and secure workspace to perform period-end accounting activities, and streamlining financial reporting.
Standardize, control, and streamline reconciliations.
Increase accuracy and efficiency across your account reconciliation process and produce timely and accurate financial statements. Drive accuracy in the financial close by providing a streamlined method to substantiate your balance sheet.
Drive visibility, accountability, and control across every accounting checklist.
Standardize, accelerate, and centrally manage accounting processes – from month-end close tasks to PBC checklists – with hierarchical task lists, role-based workflows, and real-time dashboards.
Match, analyze, and reconcile millions of transactions in minutes.
Streamline and automate detail-heavy reconciliations, such as bank reconciliations, credit card matching, intercompany reconciliations, and invoice-to-PO matching all in one centralized workspace.
Centralize, manage, and automate journal entries.
Create, review, and approve journals, then electronically certify, post them to and store them with all supporting documentation. Automatically create, populate, and post journals to your ERP based on your rules.
Elevate control in the cloud.
Unify all compliance documentation, projects, and stakeholders in one globally accessible, cloud platform to maximize visibility. Link controls to related risks, narratives, and projects, and ensure version control.
Continuously monitor for risk with automated fluctuation analysis.
Calculate and identify account balance and activity fluctuations automatically to continuously monitor for risk, ensure the effective and timely execution of critical management review controls, and support agile decision-making.
Simplify, standardize, and automate your financial close in SAP.
Streamline and automate activities in SAP with task scheduling and execution, activity monitoring, and outcome verification.
Maximize working capital and release cash from your balance sheet.
Maximize working capital with the only unified platform for collecting cash, providing credit, and understanding cash flow. Transform your accounts receivable processes with intelligent AR automation that delivers value across your business.
Apply customer payments to invoices automatically.
Transform your order-to-cash cycle and speed up your cash application process by instantly matching and accurately applying customer payments to customer invoices in your ERP.
Create and operate risk polices with dynamic insights.
Understand customer data and performance behaviors to minimize the risk of bad debt and the impact of late payments. Monitor changes in real time to identify and analyze customer risk signals.
Release cash from customers and reduce DSO.
Improve the prioritization of customer calls, reduce days sales outstanding, and watch productivity rise with more dynamic, accurate, and smarter collection management processes.
Resolve customer disputes promptly to collect debt.
Accelerate dispute resolution with automated workflows and maintain customer relationships with operational reporting. Unlock full control and visibility of disputes and provide better insight into how they impact KPIs, such as DSO and aged debt provisions.
Maximize your time with data-driven prioritization.
Make the most of your team’s time by automating accounts receivables tasks and using data to drive priority, action, and results. Monitor and analyze user performance, ensuring key actions quickly.
Turn payment data into actionable, real-time intelligence.
Automatically process and analyze critical information such as sales and payment performance data, customer payment trends, and DSO to better manage risk and develop strategies to improve operational performance.
Unlock growth capacity with tax-effective intercompany operations.
Centralize, streamline, and automate end-to-end intercompany operations with global billing, payment, and automated reconciliation capabilities that provide speed and accuracy. Ignite staff efficiency and advance your business to more profitable growth.
Centralize and streamline end-to-end intercompany operations.
Structure and automate intercompany transactions to maximize operational efficiency while improving deductibility and reducing tax leakage.
Get set up quickly for a streamlined and automated close.
The path from traditional to modern accounting is different for every organization. BlackLine’s Modern Accounting Playbook delivers a proven-practices approach to help you identify and prioritize your organization’s critical accounting gaps and map out an achievable path to success.
Save time and cost, decrease risk, and elevate the organization.
BlackLine’s foundation for modern accounting creates a streamlined and automated close. We’re dedicated to delivering the most value in the shortest amount of time, equipping you to not only control close chaos, but also foster F&A excellence.
Invest in your future by unifying and automating accounting work.
To sustain timely performance of daily activities, banking and financial services organizations are turning to modern accounting and finance practices. It’s no longer a matter of whether or not to digitally transform. It’s a matter of when and how.
Adapt to changing consumer preferences with agile accounting.
To mitigate financial statement risk and increase operational effectiveness, consumer goods organizations are turning to modern accounting and leading best practices. Simply sticking with ‘the way it’s always been done’ is a thing of the past.
Energize your accounting team by creating capacity with automation.
While you are innovating to produce safe, reliable, and sustainable products and services, our solutions help accounting teams save time, reduce risk, and create capacity to support your organization's strategic objectives.
Align healthcare accounting teams to revenue-driving activities.
Working capital, cash flows, collections opportunities, and other critical metrics depend on timely and accurate processes. Ensure services revenue has been accurately recorded and related payments are reflected properly on the balance sheet.
Unlock capacity and strengthen resilience by automating accounting.
To respond and lead amid supply chain challenges demands on accounting teams in manufacturing companies are higher than ever. Guide your business with agility by standardizing processes, automating routine work, and increasing visibility.
Tie out millions of transactions automatically.
Retailers are recalibrating their strategies and investing in innovative business models to drive transformation quickly, profitably, and at scale. Save time, reduce risk, and create capacity to support your organization's strategic objectives.
Transform the way you work.
You've transformed the way we experience the world. It's time to embrace modern accounting technology to save time, reduce risk, and create capacity to focus your time on what matters most.
BlackLine is part of your SAP financial mission control center. Our solutions complement SAP software as part of an end-to-end offering for Finance & Accounting. BlackLine solutions address the traditional manual processes that are performed by accountants outside the ERP, often in spreadsheets.
Global brands and the fastest growing companies run Oracle and choose BlackLine to accelerate digital transformation. BlackLine delivers comprehensive solutions that unify accounting and finance operations across your Oracle landscape.
Gain global visibility and insight into accounting processes while reducing risk, increasing productivity, and ensuring accuracy. Close the gaps left in critical finance and accounting processes with minimal IT support.
Adapt and innovate with a hyperconnected Accounting function and give everyone the insights and freedom to thrive by connecting your data, processes, and teams with intelligent automation solutions for accounting needs.
In good company.
More than 3,900 companies of all sizes, across all industries, trust BlackLine to help them modernize their financial close, accounts receivable, and intercompany accounting processes.
Powerful technology is only part of the story.
To truly transform your finance and accounting processes, you need the guidance of a trusted partner. Our proven approach has helped thousands of customers identify and address bottlenecks to free up capacity, strengthen controls, and deliver measurable results.
Your playbook for rapid success and proven value.
Using our unique experience and expertise, we will help you identify your most pressing accounting challenges and quickly deploy our software by providing a clear vision and predictable, confident delivery and implementation.
Rich learning resources for every stage of your journey
One of the critical success drivers for any software deployment is user adoption through effective training. We created BlackLine U to ensure successful onboarding and continuous education, useful for both new customers and those expanding globally.
Industry-leading customer support anytime, anywhere
BlackLine provides global product support across geographies, languages, and time zones, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We are here for you with industry-leading support whenever and wherever you need it.
Integrate your accounting operations with open APIs.
Our API-first development strategy gives you the keys to integrate your finance tech stack - from one ERP to one hundred - and create seamless data flows in and out of BlackLine.
Join an exclusive community of more than 300,000 accounting professionals.
BlackLine users around the world get access to key resources to develop expertise, interact with peers in F&A to exchange ideas and leading practices, and share their feedback to guide future product development.
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Whether new to BlackLine or a longtime customer, we curate events to guide you along every step of your modern accounting journey.
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BlackLine Magazine provides daily updates on everything from companies that have transformed F&A to new regulations that are coming to disrupt your day, week, and month. Check back often for the latest commentary and guidance.
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Whether you're new to F&A or an experienced professional, sometimes you need a refresher on common finance and accounting terms and their definitions. BlackLine's glossary provides descriptions for industry words and phrases, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to additional resources.
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Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. We help them move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility.
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BlackLine is a high-growth, SaaS business that is transforming and modernizing the way finance and accounting departments operate. Our cloud software automates critical finance and accounting processes. We empower companies of all sizes across all industries to improve the integrity of their financial reporting, achieve efficiencies and enhance real-time visibility into their operations.
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BlackLine and our ecosystem of software and cloud partners work together to transform our joint customers’ finance and accounting processes. Together, we provide innovative solutions that help F&A teams achieve shorter close cycles and better controls, enabling them to drive better decision-making across the company.
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A leader in the motion picture exhibition industry since 1984, Cinemark creates movie magic for audiences across the world. Yet while Cinemark’s theaters feature the latest technology, including cinematic motion seats and immersive surround sound, prior to 2019, the company’s accounting teams were still stuck using a highly manual close process.
“We had limited visibility as to the status of reconciliations and tasks during our close,” says Laura Hill, senior accounting manager at Cinemark. “You wouldn’t know if a reconciliation had been completed until you pulled a folder out of the file cabinet and looked to see if it was signed—and if it still tied to the trial balance. It was quite a process.”
“Everything was very manual,” adds Caren Bedard, VP, Controllership and Treasury Operations. “It was folder after folder after folder for thousands of accounts. The last day of our close was just bringing folders around to different people to get signed off.”
Cinemark turned to BlackLine for finance automation that would bring new visibility, consistency, and efficiency to both account reconciliations and close task management. “One of the appeals of BlackLine was that it could handle data from all five of our ERPs,” says Hill. “We knew BlackLine would also enable us to standardize the reconciliations process across 10 global accounting offices.”
Working with BlackLine implementation partner Vaco, Cinemark had BlackLine up and running in just one month. “With our aggressive 30-day timeline, we needed a partner to keep us on our toes. Working with Vaco helped us through the entire process.”
Now used across both the US and Latin America, BlackLine was the “spark that lit a fire in our department,” says Hill. “It was the first product in decades that we implemented that just changed the whole philosophy of our department. We finally have the visibility we were looking for, we have the standardization, and we have eliminated paper pushing.”
Saved time. BlackLine transformed Cinemark’s entire approach to reconciliations. “We started with 1,800 domestic accounts. We’ve since reduced that to 900 and 40% of those are auto reconciled,” says Hill. “We’ve seen significant time savings.”
“[With BlackLine] we probably saved a full day of pushing paper around during the close process—maybe more than that,” adds Bedard. “When you eliminate that wasted time, it helps you move tasks to earlier in your close and shorten your close process.”
Reduced risk. Manual close processes are notoriously difficult to standardize across multiple accounting units. Today, with BlackLine Account Reconciliations, Cinemark’s processes and formats are consistent across 10 corporate offices.
“We now have a formal, global account reconciliations policy that all countries follow,” says Hill. “We also have clear segregation of duties and delineation of low- and high-risk accounts helping to mitigate risk and drive accountability.”
Increased visibility. Instead of searching through physical folders and spreadsheets, Cinemark accounting staff can now access reconciliations and key documentation within BlackLine, at any time, from anywhere. Close tasks are also visible, enabling accounting leaders to track and manage close progress and balance workloads for maximum efficiency.
“With BlackLine, we can see where we are at any point during the close,” says Bedard. “BlackLine helps us gauge what is still outstanding.”
Freed staff for value-added work. BlackLine’s automation capabilities enable staff to focus on more strategic and interesting work, instead of repetitive manual tasks. “With BlackLine, we have more time to work on continuous improvement initiatives that are in the pipeline,” says Hill.
Enabled business continuity. Hill credits Cinemark’s earlier adoption of BlackLine with a seamless transition to remote work during the pandemic.
“Like other companies, Cinemark was forced to close our offices and work remotely. Thanks to implementation of BlackLine, we were able to get our jobs done and continue with all of our work processes. I can't even imagine how we would have functioned during the pandemic without BlackLine.”
Cinemark recently implemented BlackLine Transaction Matching to streamline matching daily theater deposits and change orders. “We’re looking at expanding our use of Transaction Matching to credit cards, as well as for our alcohol activity, which requires a complex three-way match,” says Hill.
The company continues to look for additional ways to modernize their close process. “This is just the beginning of our transformation,” says Hill. “There are so many things that we’d like to do with BlackLine. We keep coming up with other ideas on what we can automate and how we can use the tool in the future.”