F&A Topics and Food for Thought. On the Menu: Financial Reporting Analytics

Timely, complete, and accurate financial reporting is among the most critical recurring business activities. Financial statements aid leadership, investors, and other stakeholders in making sound decisions about future endeavors and investments.

While many organizations have streamlined or automated key closing activities, pre- consolidation processes often remain time-consuming and manual. Companies must analyze variances at the financial statement level for control and audit purposes. Yet, because results are recorded and validated at the local level, identifying, explaining, and aggregating fluctuation explanations is a siloed, ineffective, and administrative exercise.

How can you be sure you’re effectively addressing these challenges across your finance and accounting teams?

Speaker

Cheri Hewlett, Head of Product, FRA at BlackLine