As Sarbanes-Oxley Turns 17, What Have We Learned About Controls?
Thanks to today’s automation technology, improving internal controls for financial reporting is one of the lowest hanging fruits to reduce risk and improve efficiency.
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Sep 24, 2019
3 Benefits of Building & Maintaining Trust in Management Accounting
Those that prioritize maintaining trust, both internally and externally, gain (and retain) public confidence. This creates a significant competitive edge and has the potential to achieve three key benefits.
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Top Takeaways from InTheBlack
Catch up on highlights from InTheBlack, BlackLine’s annual event for controllers, accountants, finance executives, and BlackLine experts. The Workiva team shares their perspectives.
Building an Empowering Culture of Trust, Efficiency & Accountability
Here’s how organizations can achieve improved efficiency and simultaneously increase trust in accounting teams, processes, and data.
Your ERP Is the Foundation, BlackLine Is the Solution
During a recent webinar, SiriusXM talked about how they transformed their accounting processes by running Oracle and closing with BlackLine.
The Power of Smart Close: Controlling Your Close Inside SAP
Smart Close is purpose-built to be embedded within an SAP environment, and allows everybody within an organization to close at the same time and frequency.
How NIKE Is Transforming Financial Close Processes with BlackLine
NIKE’s mission is to bring inspiration and innovation to everyone in the world, and this is centered around four pillars: being innovative, being sustainable, having a creative and diverse workforce, and being positive and impactful. When NIKE’s F&A teams decided...
Prepaid Expenses: Definition & Process
What Are Prepaid Expenses? A prepaid expense is a future expense (such as a good or service) paid in advance of receiving it. Prepaid expenses are recognized during the period in which they occur and carried on the balance sheet...
How to Effectively Build Trust in Accounting & Finance
This article originally appeared in Strategic Finance Magazine and is Part 2 of this blog series. Read Part 1 here. Nearly 70% of global business leaders and finance professionals claim their organization has made a significant business decision based on inaccurate financial...
What is Reconciliation in Accounting?
Reconciliation in Accounting Reconciliation in Accounting is the process of ensuring account balances are correct between two accounts at the end of an accounting period. Reconciliations help automate the financial close process. Accountants perform account reconciliation with the following steps:...
How to Build Trust in Controls With Centralized Compliance
Controls enforce trustworthiness. But, as they proliferate throughout an organization, a larger question comes to mind: can the entire control
infrastructure also be trusted?
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