CPE / CPD Webinar Series
Finance Innovation Week:
Making the Move to Modern Accounting
December 8 - 10, 2020
Traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable, especially in our current environment of accounting with a distributed workforce.
But it is possible to virtually close with confidence and continuously improve your F&A processes by putting the right technology solutions in place.
Join our live webinars featuring key BlackLine partners for Finance Innovation Week, taking place from December 8-10. You’ll come away with ideas and strategies for successfully transforming your accounting and finance teams, and have the opportunity to earn up to 8 FREE CPE or CPD Credits.
Tuesday, December 8
Vaco: Modernizing Finance Around Technology
9:00 am - 10:00 am PT
Increasing ERP functionality, crowded software markets, and buzzwords like RPA, AI, and machine learning can all lead to confusion, uncertainty, and worst of all, inaction. Join thought leaders from Vaco as they unpack the technology considerations any finance and accounting organization should look at to design a roadmap for finance transformation and modernization. We'll be focusing on the “core four”: People, Process, Technology, and Data.
RGP: Delivering Practical Client Solutions Using BlackLine’s Enhanced Transaction Matching Product
11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
We're following our BeyondTheBlack presentation by going deeper with RGP experts and BlackLine customers, who will provide insights and practical applications for using Transaction Matching enhancements. Their stories and experiences will help position you for greater success.
BlackLine: A Better Way to Unify & Reconcile Data
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PT
Repetitive transactional processes like VLOOKUPS, rainbow spreadsheets, copying and pasting data, and inconsistent data files and formats are simply not sustainable. There IS a better way to unify and reconcile high-volume data with automation.
BlackLine Transaction Matching eliminates the time and effort needed to locate, import, validate, and process your data. Join this session as we walk you through how to set up the foundation for Matching with the Data Import Utility.
Wednesday, December 9
RSM | Armanino: Why Cloud Financial Close Technology Can’t Wait—Especially for Midsize Organizations
9:00 am - 10:00 am PT
Midsize F&A organizations are in a unique position. They’ve outgrown often informal, manual processes typical of small companies, yet lack the resources of large enterprises. But in order to effectively scale and move the business forward with confidence, midsize organizations, now more than ever, need to invest in modern accounting technology.
Clearsulting: Kyriba and BlackLine Working Together – Achieve World-Class Finance Automation with Clearsulting
11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Kyriba and BlackLine are complimentary platforms that help treasury and accounting organizations achieve their strategic objectives and world-class automation when integrated within the office of Finance. As many companies move away from the highly manual and error-ridden processes that are traditional in both treasury and accounting, and make the shift toward modernizing their financial processes, there are many levers they can pull to drive further automation and visibility into their company’s financials. One of the most impactful “levers,” is the integration of Kyriba with BlackLine. Clearsulting will share how they have helped their clients integrate Kyriba with BlackLine, driving the following benefits:
- Increased automation: Reduce Costs, Save Time, and Increase Accuracy
- Bolt-on bank connectivity via the Kyriba Banking network
- Optimized visibility across finance
- Process standardization
SAP: How SAP Solution Extensions by BlackLine Complement SAP Central Finance
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PT
With financial close functionalities from balance sheet substantiation to journal entry automation and intercompany governance, SAP Solution Extensions by BlackLine complement SAP Central Finance. In this session we’ll highlight the complementary capabilities between the SAP solution extensions by BlackLine and cFIN and discuss what benefits your organization can leverage by combining these solutions together.
Thursday, December 10
Deloitte | EY | KPMG: Turning the Page on 2020
9:00 am - 10:00 am PT
It's no secret that this year, accounting and finance teams faced new and unanticipated challenges. You're invited to interact with leaders from BlackLine, Deloitte, EY, and KPMG as they discuss leading practices for the virtual close and remote audits, the post-pandemic future of work, and what CFOs and CAOs are seeing for the future of Finance and Accounting. I think we can all agree that it’s time to look forward and turn the page on 2020.
UHY: Continuous Accounting: Finally a Tax Break
11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Down with Taxes! UHY Consulting is proudly one of BlackLine’s strategic consulting and technology partners speaking at this year’s Finance Innovation Week. Join UHY Consulting’s Senior Manager, Stephen Shanahan, on Thursday, December 10th at 2:00 EST to hear about Continuous Accounting and how there is now, “Finally a Tax Break”. We will show you how BlackLine can help you reconcile your TAX transactions faster and more efficiently using Transaction Matching and Account Reconciliations. Your goal: To spend less time identifying "true" reconciling items and spend more time resolving the root cause to eliminate the issue in the future! As a long-time partner of BlackLine, UHY Consulting has completed over 250 unique implementation projects. Let us put our vast experience to work for you