BLACKLINE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Delivering leading practices to create capacity for higher education accounting teams
BlackLine Accounting Process Automation
Higher education institutions play an important role in shaping the future. Leading institutions are transforming operations and adapting the classroom to deliver an enhanced academic experience.
Higher education accounting teams must also adapt. Modern accounting technology helps accounting teams save time, reduce risk, and create capacity to support their institutions’ strategic objectives.
See why leading higher education institutions globally, like Northwestern University and UCLA choose BlackLine for financial close automation, visibility, and control.
Learn how BlackLine improves the speed, accuracy, and reliability of the reconciliation to adjustment process by automating routine and high-volume transaction processes.
Modern accounting use cases for higher education institutions
See how higher education institutions are unlocking capacity in Accounting
CASE STUDY
“Since implementing BlackLine, we now have the time to make a positive impact on higher-value activities. I can’t imagine going back to the old way.”
Michelle Soss, Assistant Controller
CASE STUDY
“Our annual closing is three weeks faster. With Smart Close, we can work more efficiently by managing by exception.”
Rob van den Wijngaard, Financial Shared Services & Programs Manager
CASE STUDY
“BlackLine has absolutely helped us manage account reconciliations more efficiently and be in a better place for our external year-end audit.”
Sherri Welch, Associate Comptroller of General Accounting
“Implementing transaction matching, it allowed my preparers to focus on problems within reconciliations instead of matching transactions. This is going back to the proactive versus reactive approach that I want my accountants to take.”
Anna Huang, Cash Management Functional Lead
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Success for Higher Education Institutions
70
Percent
of transactions matched automatically
3
Week
reduction in close time
24
Week
increase in timely reconciliations
