Bank and credit card reconciliations are a key control that companies rely on to ensure that their financial data is accurate and appropriate. While many ERP systems offer basic functionality to manage these reconciliations, they do not allow a true reconciliation to be performed.
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IRC Section 956 covers the decResources laration and accounting of dividends when earnings from a controlled foreign corporation (CFC) are invested in US property that will produce income over a period of time. Are you aware of the exceptions that can be applied to avoid the deemed dividend payable in the US? Join BlackLine for the final of our three-part webinar series on intercompany regulations.
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Transfer pricing agreements, foreign exchange rates, new regulations, manual processes, and disparate technology, it should be no surprise that intercompany issues are the fifth highest reason for restatement over the past 15 years. Beyond the risk and expense of restatement, your intercompany accounting process is costing you a lot more than you think.
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Your ERP can’t do it all. It’s time to learn how to get more out of your general ledger by automating risky, time-consuming, and outdated accounting practices with purpose-built products for transaction matching, account reconciliations, and the financial close. BlackLine’s Modern Finance platform complements any ERP and enables customers to move beyond outdated processes to a “Continuous Accounting” model.
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High volume reconciliations can be some of the most time-consuming and headache inducing components of the financial close process. Technology can help automate up to 80% of the matching process, leaving you more time for those tasks that matter.
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Reconciliations are one of the most labor-intensive, yet critical controls processes within any organization. Even the smallest mistake can compromise the integrity of your balance sheet and create discrepancies in your financial close. There is a simpler way to perform your reconciliation process that allows you to focus on analysis, risk mitigation, and exception handling.
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Close with Confidence in Oracle. Join Ralph Canter, Managing Director of KPMG’s Business Performance Services, to learn how organizations are using BlackLine to reduce transaction costs, eliminate errors, and accelerate the entire record-to-report process within an Oracle E-Business Suite Environment.
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Matching records from multiple disparate systems is a major consumer of both cost and time within Finance & Accounting as well as in the payroll process. Given the immeasurable increase in the complexity of these systems and the volume of transactions, management professionals must plan for an increasingly intricate global accounting environment.
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Despite the vast sums of money that have been lavished on traditional financial and management reporting solutions, the process has remained stubbornly impervious to change. Sadly, for many organizations, the record-to-report process acts as a brake on timely decision-making, performance management and control. So how should the modern finance function respond?
Businesses have been benchmarking performance for more than three decades, a phenomenon that has escalated with the growth of data, the democratisation of information and of course the ubiquity of the internet. But benchmarking in real-time is something only a modern finance platform in the Cloud can deliver.
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In this webinar, Finance Transformation expert Susan Parcells, CPA, discusses how to add efficiency, control, and visibility to the bank and credit card reconciliation process. This webinar will also discuss reconciliation management in your ERP system, and will explore how Enhanced Finance Controls and Automation (EFCA) technology can be used to create a Modern Finance organization through broader automation of accounting and finance processes.
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It has been nearly 9 months since the December 15, 2014 deadline to implement the new COSO framework that was issued in May 2013. While the SEC did not explicitly require companies to adopt the new framework, companies were expected to at least disclose which framework they used. Based on 3,000 filings reviewed as of early April, three-fourths have disclosed that they have adopted the updated framework.
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Join BlackLine, SAP, and SAP Customer Thomson Reuters as we discuss how BlackLine’s Enhanced Financial Controls and Automation software can extend SAP’s Simple Finance to improve your financial close and reconciliation process and eliminate the need for error-prone spreadsheets.
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Join us when Vince Burchianti, CFO of Firehouse Subs pulls back the curtain on the insightful priorities, best practices and technologies that allowed Firehouse to fire up its growth engine to the tune of more than $650 million in annual sales.
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A new approach to Record-to-Report processes, called Continuous Accounting, represents a paradigm shift in accounting operations. Automation and controlled workflows now allow tasks typically performed during the period-end to instead be embedded within day-to-day activities, allowing the rigid accounting calendar to better align with actual business cycles.
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Watch now to develop a better understanding of common finance challenges and how Modern Finance is transforming the finance and accounting processes in organizations. Learn why it’s important to begin updating your processes today and takeaway best practices for account and intercompany reconciliations and for accelerating the financial close.
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Record-to-Report is a well-established process for period-end reporting and the production of financial statements. However, waiting until the end of a period to perform accounting tasks prevents timely access to key business information and creates unnecessary workload spikes.
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Yet once your IPO is in play, what’s going on behind the scenes — and on your financial statements —may suddenly take center stage and be subject to rigorous scrutiny. Shareholders, the board, lenders, and even the media may want to know before they commit that your financial performance and foundation is on solid ground.
Watch now to develop a better understanding of common finance challenges and how Modern Finance is transforming the finance and accounting processes in organizations. Learn why it’s important to begin updating your processes today and takeaway best practices for account and intercompany reconciliations and for accelerating the financial close.
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BlackLine’s Transaction Matching solution streamlines and automates detail-heavy reconciliations, such as bank reconciliations, credit card matching, intercompany reconciliations, and invoice-to-PO matching—all in one centralised workspace. During this webinar, BlackLine client Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will describe how implementing the proper controls and automation has freed up their accountants to focus their efforts on investigating discrepancies.
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When Dun & Bradstreet moved their finance operations into a Center of Excellence, it became clear that they needed to make significant improvements to their reconciliation processes to deliver a world-class service. Watch the webinar now to find out how D&B automated and centralised reconciliations.
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“Don’t be left behind”are the determined words that now lead growing numbers of finance professionals to expand their influence beyond the realm of traditional accounting and finance into the number-rich arena known as the customer experience.
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Journal entries are a time-consuming and effort-intensive burden for many accountants. The process of manually creating and posting journals is typically spreadsheet-driven and lacks effective controls. This webinar will highlight BlackLine Journal Entry, which provides a complete journal entry management system that enables you to create, review, and approve journals, then electronically certify and store them with all supporting documentation.
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Learn how Dun & Bradstreet is able to use a Continuous Accounting approach to eliminate non-value work, quickly centralize key finance and accounting functions, and increase transparency, visibility, and accuracy during the entire close process across 70 operating entities worldwide. You will also learn about the key steps to transitioning your finance team to Continuous Accounting
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You’ve partnered with NetSuite to save time managing your financials. But if you’re relying on spreadsheets and other manual tools to track and aggregate reconciliation data, you’re still wasting valuable accountant time while increasing your risk of errors.
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Listen to how an innovative start-up embraced the growing influence of SaaS on finance decision making and charted a new path for finance - one rich in strategic insights and leading-edge metrics.
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Journal entries are a time-consuming and effort-intensive burden for many accountants. The process of manually creating and posting journals is typically spreadsheet-driven and lacks effective controls. This webinar will highlight BlackLine Journal Entry, which provides a complete journal entry management system that enables you to create, review, and approve journals, then electronically certify and store them with all supporting documentation.
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Thirty-one years ago, Microsoft Excel was first introduced. Now in 2016, Continuous Accounting, represents a paradigm shift in accounting operations and ends the reliance on Excel spreadsheets for critical accounting activities.
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Intercompany transactions are the primary consumer of both cost and time within Finance & Accounting. Given the immeasurable increase in volume and complexity of these transactions in the post-globalization era, management professionals must plan for an increasingly intricate global accounting environment.
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Intercompany transactions are the primary consumer of both cost and time within Finance & Accounting. Given the immeasurable increase in volume and complexity of these transactions in the post-globalisation era, management professionals must plan for an increasingly intricate global accounting environment. Join The Hackett Group and BlackLine to hear how new technologies in the marketplace are helping businesses reduce accounting costs and optimise processes.
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A new automated approach to the Record-to-Report process, called Continuous Accounting, represents a paradigm shift in accounting operations and ends the reliance on Excel spreadsheets for critical accounting activities.
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Attend this live Q&A with your peers to understand how SAP and BlackLine work together. This is your opportunity to ask questions specific to your SAP systems and learn tips and best practices for automating and streamlining the financial close process.
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The rules that once governed the pathway from private-to-public ownership have changed, and so too have the priorities of private firms when it comes to the adoption of more robust internal controls.
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Optimizing Process, Technology, People, and Information to Transform Your Financial Close. With this guide, we’ve developed a roadmap to help you navigate the ever changing, increasingly complex business environment through a finance automation journey.
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Managing tasks fundamentally boils down to creating a list of activities, to be performed by a given deadline. On its face, task management is not a novel or particularly advanced concept, but it is a complex and critical element of effective financial close management.
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Modern finance leaders understand the importance of process standardisation, automation and visibility in ensuring an efficient and error-free control environment, to guarantee the integrity of their financial statements and compliance. Hear finance leaders from PepsiCo explain how they filled the white space in their ERP systems and transformed their accounting and finance processes to increase the efficiency, accuracy and visibility around their financial close. You will hear how they saved days of Balance Sheet review time per month, and increased compliance to 99%.
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Global companies process substantial volumes of cash, ACH, and credit card transactions across many channels and locations every day. Accountants are usually left to manually tick and tie these transactions in order to manage inventory, create and post journal entries, reconcile account balances, and stay ahead of fraudulent activity. Spreadsheets are not enough to manage this vast amount of data and can result in errors and complex workflows.
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BlackLine is introducing two powerful products that were built from the ground up to work exclusively within your SAP environment. BlackLine Smart Close runs inside SAP, performing analysis to create the required tasks through Robotic Process Automation. TheSAP Connector provides deep, flexible integration that unifies BlackLine within SAP, and now automatically clears Open Item transactions.
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What are the biggest challenges for manufacturers today? The need to cut costs, the demand for innovation, and increased competition from markets all over the world. Keeping up means automating more of your business to get products to market even faster. Yet while you depend on smart technology for your manufacturing process, your period-end close is still stuck in the dark ages. A spreadsheet-driven close process isn’t just slow and inconvenient. It’s risky.
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BlackLine is introducing two powerful products that were built from the ground up to work exclusively within your SAP environment. BlackLine Smart Close runs inside SAP, performing analysis to create the required tasks through Robotic Process Automation. The SAP Connector provides deep, flexible integration that unifies BlackLine within SAP, and now automatically clears Open Item transactions.
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The days of off-balance sheet financing, known as Leasing, is coming to an end. The FASB has made sweeping changes to Accounting for Leases and these changes will be here before we know it. This session will be led by experts in lease accounting and they will be discussing the new guidance. During this informative session you will learn the key changes and when these changes will be effective for your company. Additionally, you will hear what you should be doing now to get ready and what some of the potential pitfalls are in the readiness efforts. By the end of the hour you should hopefully have a better idea on what are the keys to a successful implementation of the new Lease Accounting Guidance.
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The cumbersome workload that plagues your financial close can be avoided. Join us to find out how Abercrombie modernised their accounting operations to simplify their period-end processes.
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It’s no secret that the mix of skills and experience demanded by successful finance teams is quickly evolving, and at no time has the need to attract, grow, and retain talent competencies inside the finance function been more critical to finance leaders. This Webcast will explore how a new talent mind-set is altering finance leader priorities and broadening the finance career paths for strategy-minded finance executives.
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In today's highly complex global business environment, companies are constantly expected to do more with less, to run leaner while becoming more effective than ever. This is especially true for Accounting and Finance.
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Maximisez les processus, la technologie, les équipes et l’information pour transformer votre clôture financière L’évolution de la technologie a transformé les méthodes de travail des entreprises, et il est temps pour les départements comptables et financiers de rejoindre le mouvement.
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Today’s cloud-based business systems are able to quickly and efficiently create and monitor process benchmarks to provide companies with ongoing assessments of how well they are executing processes compared to the best-performing organizations and averages in the industry.
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Join us on March 9th at 10AM PT/ 1PM ET to hear from tax, legal, and technology experts on the latest regulatory changes and software advancements for intercompany operations and accounting.
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The association of transactions for clearing within SAP open item managed accounts is a cumbersome process requiring the manual identification and linking of transactions. As a result, clearing open items is frequently not completed and transactions are written off or left open throughout multiple periods. Consequently, the accumulation of open items wastes resources as it slows down both accounting tasks and SAP processes. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Join BlackLine’s Michael Gilmartin and Stephen Wolfman to get tips and to learn best practices for reconciling open item accounts which can result in a fully automated process for the clearing of open item transactions within SAP systems. Hear answers to questions on how to establish more efficient and effective processes for open item management (OIM).
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High volume reconciliations can be some of the most time-consuming and headache inducing components of the financial close process. Technology can help automate up to 80% of the matching process, leaving you more time for those tasks that matter.
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Delivering high-quality care isn't just about having the latest medical technology. Your ability to serve patients also requires modern accounting technology to ensure a strong financial foundation. Yet if you're still relying on manual processes to manage your close, your financial foundation is shaky at best. Keeping up with the need for more care means knowing exactly what you can spend and when. Yet a spreadsheet-driven close hampers visibility and transparency—bad news for growing healthcare systems with ever-expanding patient loads.
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Constatez-vous un accroissement de la complexité opérationnelle? Devez-vous délivrer de plus en plus d’analyses financières en temps réel pour répondre aux exigences de votre activité ? Le Connecteur SAP BlackLine est une solution complémentaire à votre environnement SAP permettant d’automatiser les processus comptables liés à la clôture financière.
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Jenna Stengert, Senior Analyst, Corporate Accounting of a large capital goods company, and Susan Parcells, of BlackLine, will discuss the benefits of Continuous Accounting and how it can help your organization run more efficiently.
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Join BlackLine on March 23 at 10 am PT/1 pm ET to hear how BlackLine’s Intercompany Hub can streamline and centralize complex intercompany processes. During this 60-minute session BlackLine Solutions Consultant Quintin Dykes will give you a demonstration of the Intercompany Hub and show you a solution that aligns with Deloitte's “Intercompany Accounting Framework”.
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BlackLine teamed up with Shared Services Link to bring you this webinar, Getting Recs off Spreadsheets & into the Cloud, presented by Sarah Fane, Head of Research, Shared Services Link, & Robert Bloor, Group Financial Controller, Equiniti. Shared Services Link sharedserviceslink.com is a business community for senior finance professionals working for large corporations. Equiniti provides technology, administration, processing and payments services for over 50% of the FTSE 100.
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Thomson Reuters is transforming the way its accounting and finance department works with finance automation tools that can deliver a real-time picture of financial results at any point in the accounting period.
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Accountants have morphed from paper pushers into digital financial professionals. Are you being left behind? Today, everything is going digital. Children born today may never need to handle physical money in his/her lifetime making the tracking and recording of financial transactions in a virtual world a new art among a world of data scientists.
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BlackLine has introduced two powerful products that were built from the ground up to work exclusively within your SAP environment. BlackLine Smart Close runs inside SAP, performing analysis to create the required tasks through Robotic Process Automation. TheSAP Connector provides deep, flexible integration that unifies BlackLine within SAP, and now automatically clears Open Item transactions.
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In today’s complex business environment, companies are constantly expected to do more with less and run leaner while becoming more effective. This is especially true for Accounting and Finance, who are now required to not only deliver periodic financial data and reports, but also real-time analysis and intelligence.
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Explore how you can transform your journal entry process for greater efficiency, visibility, and control. Learn how a centralized, workflow-driven system can eliminate tedious journal entry work and minimize the risk of incorrect entries.
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Die Ergebnisse einer IMA-Umfrage aus 2016 zeigen den Umfang der Automatisierung im Finanzbereich von Unternehmen. Ziel der Studie war es, Informationen darüber zu erhalten, welche Herausforderungen bestehen und was sich bewährt hat.
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Tim Coburn, Assistant Financial Controller, Graham Construction; and Susan Parcells, Senior Director Finance Transformation, BlackLine, will discuss the benefits of continuous accounting and how it can help your organization run more efficiently.
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Aujourd’hui, les organisations financières font face à des défis de taille lors de leurs processus de clôture : activités manuelles et chronophages, augmentation des risques, processus décentralisés et besoin d’harmonisation.
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Unternehmen sind heute zunehmend gezwungen, strenge Finanzkontrollen einzurichten. Mit manuellen Eingabeverfahren lassen sich wirksame Finanzkontrollen und übersichtliche Finanzen nicht erreichen. Ihr Unternehmen benötigt einen automatisierten Finanzabschluss.
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Join the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) revolution and make your financial closing processes faster, more reliable, and less expensive. In this webinar, you will learn how to automate highly repetitive, labor-intensive, and high-volume financial processes with BlackLine Smart Close.
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So how do you brighten up your finance future? To find out, CorporateLeaders in partnership with BlackLine, hosted the FinanceLeaders Webcast “Unlocking Agility, Productivity & Visibility with Continuous Accounting”. The webcast is keynoted by Andy Young, Head of Finance at LV=, one of the UK’s largest insurance companies, and Andrew Wright, Manager, Solutions Consulting EMEA at BlackLine.
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During this Webcast, a panel of experts will discuss how cloud-based solutions not only improve the efficiency of finance teams by streamlining critical finance processes (e.g., reporting, consolidation, close) but also by impacting areas of critical concern to CFOs.
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Robots are performing more tasks than ever, but think of it this way: robots can do a lot of boring tasks very quickly for you, far faster and more accurately. Susan Parcells, of BlackLine, will discuss capabilities that can enable any accountant to deliver predictive insights to leadership, drive data-based decisions, and provide expert counsel.
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When it comes to your financial close process, visibility is key. And let’s face it, analyzing data and piecing together reports from piles of papers, spreadsheets, and binders, strewn across multiple shared drives and locations, has never been the most efficient, or reliable way to deliver visibility into the true health of your finance organization. The newly release Reporting completely changes all of that.
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Join the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) revolution and make your financial closing processes faster, more reliable, and less expensive. In this webinar, you will learn how to automate highly repetitive, labor-intensive, and high-volume financial processes with BlackLine Smart Close.
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Accounting departments are facing mounting pressure to be more efficient, agile, and strategic in an increasingly regulatory environment. The demands of manual activities and spreadsheet-based processes create risk and waste valuable time – especially during the financial close. This is why modern businesses are turning to finance technology at an unprecedented pace.
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Are you one of those accountants who is still spending days on manually reconciling transactional and account balance data – slumped over spreadsheets, keying in numbers, hoping the data goes back into your ERP in a better mood than when it came out? We know your pain!
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Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) tax regulations have spurred the most notable changes to taxation since the 1980s. As the deadline for compliance nears, do you know what the burden will be on your business? During this 30-minute session, UHY’s Managing Director Brad Baer will cover what is critical to understand about BEPS compliance and how BlackLine’s Intercompany Hub can relieve the burden of BEPS.
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Learn the four keys to preparing for an IPO and thriving as a newly public company with Jonathan Kearl, Director at the Connor Group. During this webinar, we will identify the key areas of focus that all companies considering an IPO must be focused on for success.
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The new revenue recognition standards impact so much more than just the finance and accounting team. In this presentation, Armanino audit and consulting experts will detail the consequences of delaying your preparation and provide industry-specific guidance.
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Today’s multi-national corporations face many challenges due to the changing international tax landscape as well as updates to new and existing U.S. tax laws. Come learn more about these regulations and how technology can help address the challenges they present.
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Every organization is constantly expected to run leaner while becoming more effective. This is especially true for Accounting and Finance, which are required to not only deliver periodic financial data and reports, but also real-time analysis and intelligence. Learn the benefits of Continuous Accounting and how it can help your organization run more efficiently.
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What if you could be more productive with fewer resources, less overtime, and also easily improve the quality of your work? Not only would you be pleased with this improvement, but it would also set you apart in the industry. By adopting seven key habits, you can become an exceptional accountant.
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SAP S/4HANA Finance is SAP’s biggest innovation and upgrade since SAP R/3. Getting the most out of this upgrade means simplifying and changing your account structure, adopting both real-time and universal journals, and updating how reporting is done.
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The new regulations under IRS section 385 will dramatically change the treatment of intercompany debt. It will also require companies to change how they approach intercompany financing and cash management. What does this mean for your organization’s intercompany financing strategy? Join BlackLine for the second of our three-part webinar series on intercompany regulations.
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As the robots do the boring stuff they’re meant to do, accountants get to become the exceptional analysts they were always meant to be. Michael Shultz, of BlackLine, will discuss capabilities that can enable any accountant to deliver predictive insights to leadership, drive data-based decisions, and provide expert counsel.
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Today’s cloud-based business systems provide actionable information for improving operations, and create process benchmarks quickly and efficiently by monitoring and measuring how customers use their service. Download this white paper from Ventana Research to learn more about the value of benchmarking and how it can improve your organization’s performance.
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The future of your company hinges on how effectively you navigate through the intricacies of “going public” and “being public.” In collaboration with expert partner The Connor Group, join us for an in-depth discussion about preparing for and planning life as a public company.
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Download this white paper to gain a practical, in the trenches perspective on the challenges organizations face, and the opportunities to rethink the technology and process barriers to achieve a better, smarter close across your SAP landscape.
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Moving to a new ERP provides an exciting opportunity for finance and accounting organizations to completely rethink their processes. However, it also presents risk to the financial close. Download this guide to avoid the risks and streamline your ERP upgrade.
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Explore how you can transform your journal entry process for greater efficiency, visibility, and control. Learn how a centralized, workflow-driven system can eliminate tedious journal entry work and minimise the risk of incorrect entries.
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You’ve dedicated tremendous resources to innovation, growth, and meeting customer needs— and now you’re going public. Yet once your IPO is in play, what’s going on behind the scenes — and on your financial statements —may suddenly take center stage and be subject to rigorous scrutiny.
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The future of your company hinges on how effectively you navigate the intricacies of “going public” and “being public.” To help ensure success, assembling an IPO-readiness team with unique expertise, specific industry knowledge , and a proven track record is critical.
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As a group, accounting and finance professionals are considered to be savvy, conscientious, and highly reliable. They’re well-respected and considered trustworthy. Today’s businesses need strategic help from their finance teams more than ever before. Process automation is a good first step, since it introduces efficiencies to accommodate peak workloads. But automation also frees up resources to support other areas across the organisation, such as business strategy, Sales & Marketing planning, HR, and even IT.
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Accountants are now expected to transition to the role of expert counsel: strategic advisors with an understanding of the entire business, analytical capabilities, and near-mythological forecasting abilities. Prepare yourself for the future of robotic process automation.
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Optimierung von Prozessen, Technologie, Menschen und Informationen zur Transformation Ihres Finanzwesens. In diesem Leitfaden finden Sie eine Roadmap für Ihre Reise bei der Automatisierung Ihrer Finanz- und Rechnungswesenprozesse.
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BlackLine’s newly released Reporting is designed to equip you to continuously improve by analyzing the right metrics. It allows you to benchmark your initial state so you can check back regularly to see how you’re tracking against each KPI. This significant upgrade is real-time, intuitive, and collaborative―with accounting intelligence built-in.
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Are you tired of saying “What the flux?!” after your financial close? For many accounting organizations, even the most straightforward flux analysis is still a time-intensive, brain-draining, data wrangling process that deters all but the most dedicated (and caffeinated). Download this ebook to discover the best way to monitor balance fluctuations.
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We know that learning anything new is not a one-time event and learners have different training needs. We also understand how important CPE credits are for accounting and finance professionals. Premium Training Subscription is the solution. Whether your goal is to onboard new users or provide ongoing education, you can more effectively manage the training rollout and training activities with a combination of eLearning, virtual instructor-led classes and include role-based learning in company-specific learning paths.
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Finance automation is a major step on the road to an efficient reconciliation environment. When Union Bank & Trust wanted to streamline their account reconciliations, they implemented automation to replace inefficient, manual, error-prone processes and increase productivity.
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Accounting and finance teams are increasingly pressured to explore new strategies to improve efficiency, increase focus on analysis, and provide greater value to the business. Hear ActewAGL present their story of implementing Automation across the accounting and finance function, and how this has transformed their finance and accounting operations.
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Join us as Steve Giusti, VP & Controller, Xactly, reveals the path that Xactly blazed to meet the challenges of the new standard while avoiding added cost and time. Next, presenters John Dunican, CPA, and Ricardo Martinez, CPA, of Armanino LLP will explore some of the specific challenges that ASC 606 poses.
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Ahead of its UK Public Services Summit 2017, ACCA is running a series of webinars in the UK for members working across the public sector, healthcare, charities and education to position members as leaders and influencers in public sector financial management. Join this webinar if you are a senior finance professional loking to lead your team into the days of Modern Finance.
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In today’s fast-paced, digital world, CFOs are realising that they need more accurate and timelier data for data analysis, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting in order to become a partner to the broader business. Join our webinar to understand what challenges are being faced across many businesses finance teams, and how CFOs are resolving these challenges with technology.
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RPA is an exciting topic, one that has garnered a lot of attention and a little bit of hype. Michael Shultz and Zach Deming, of BlackLine, will separate RPA fact from fiction so you can build a robotic accounting department.
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2018 is approaching fast. How are you setting up your finance and accounting teams for success? Join Susan Parcells, Senior Director of Finance Transformation at BlackLine for a webinar on October 19th to gain insight into what the exceptional accountant of tomorrow needs to cultivate today.
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BlackLine Smart Close delivers breakthrough efficiency gains and improves trust in the financial close by combining the latest in Robotic Process Automation and financial close intelligence, deeply embedded within SAP.
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Automation for journal entries provides greater accuracy and efficiency over time-consuming and error-prone manual processes. BlackLine customers have cut the time and effort needed for journals by 90%, while gaining a clear audit trail and refocusing staff on more important work.
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You’ve got Variance Analysis in your BlackLine solutions set — find out how to put our flux analysis tool to work. BlackLine’s Tom Webber will walk you through setup and functionality of this powerful solution to make your flux analysis a proactive process with comprehensive controls.
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Finance executives are having a positive impact on business as they advance a new imperative – one that is part finance automation, one part numeric transparency. Join Dave Pomeroy, CFO, BDNA; Brett Knowles, Performance Management & Measurement; and Michael Shultz, BlackLine, as they discuss the impact of automation and transparency on finance organizations.
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How will you move from surviving to thriving as technology and automation are rapidly changing everything around us? BlackLine founder and Chief Executive Officer, Therese Tucker, will explore the exciting - if sometimes frightening - changes and ask everyone to consider what their future looks like.
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The digital economy is driving a new era of Finance and Accounting transformation. Finance leaders are facing disruption on all fronts, while continuing to act as business stewards and strategic advisors to the board. Find out what three challenges are at the top of CFO minds.
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In this webinar, participants will explore what is causing some of the pressure and risk around the close, the additional expectations and some best practices to try to meet all of the demands.
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The digital evolution is transforming the way finance professionals must approach their job as well as the skills and tools they must use on a daily basis to drive organizational success. This session will cover how financial professionals can leverage the power of digital to transform finance and modernize the office of the CFO.
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This webcast will reveal how finance teams can employ continuous accounting to distribute and automate procedures that typically surround the financial close; improve both the timeliness and accuracy of reconciliations, and elevate the role of the finance team.
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Are you in the early stages of evaluating transaction matching? Or are you interested in maximizing the amount of value you’re getting from the existing matching solution? If you want to learn more about transaction matching, this session is for you. The matching experts from Clearsulting are eager to walk you through the matching approach that has clients realizing tangible benefits.
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RGP, will be discussing the new guidance. During this informative session you will learn the key changes and when these changes will be effective for your company. Additionally, you will hear what you should be doing now to get ready, and what some of the potential pitfalls are in the readiness efforts.
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With the increased regulatory rules, the complexities associated with Intercompany accounting is a primary consumer of both cost and time within Finance & Accounting organizations. There is high-risk associated due to the volume and the intricacies of these transactions. The need for change in handling intercompany accounting is immediate.
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Find out how top-performing GBS organizations do it in a new study by The Hackett Group consultancy. This report highlights key GBS best practices and metrics in areas such as customer centricity and digital transformation.
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SAP S/4HANA Finance ist die größte Innovation und das größte Upgrade der SAP seit SAP R/3. Eine optimale Nutzung des Upgrades auf SAP S/4HANA geht mit einer Vereinfachung Ihrer Kontenstruktur, der Einführung universeller Journale und einer Aktualisierung des Berichtswesens einher.
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Join this IMA webcast as Finance Transformation Expert Michael Shultz explores leading causes of pressure and risk around the close. Hear how a leading credit union unlocked the gate to continuous improvement to transform their business. Learn why and how they improved the reconciliation process, their expectations, solutions implemented, and lessons learned.
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Laden Sie dieses Whitepaper herunter, um mehr über die Auswirkungen von Robotik und Robotic Process Automation (RPA) auf die Finanzfunktion im Unternehmen zu erfahren, und darüber, wie eine stärkere Automatisierung die Rolle eines Accountants zum trusted Business Advisor verändert.
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Dans un environnement économique complexe, les organisations financières font face à des risques élevés d’erreurs du fait que de nombreuses opérations comptables sont effectuées manuellement, sur tableur, et de manière obsolète.
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In light of growing demands to streamline accounting practices, IMA partnered with BlackLine to produce a study on process automation in accounting and finance. To learn more about the research findings and how employees can discuss the ROI of automation with company leaders, download the report.
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Finance professionals today have the ability to leverage new technologies as key drivers to achieving business agility by driving down operational cost, increasing efficiency, and improving the customer experience. Join us to learn how automation is impacting today’s finance teams and business performance.
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Die Prioritäten auf der CFO-Agenda haben sich längst verschoben. Wie steht es aktuell um die Agenda der CFOs und was ist der Stand in Bezug auf Menschen, Prozesse und Technologien? Erfahren Sie mehr dazu im Webinar mit The Hackett Group und BlackLine.
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Your close is hard enough. Monitoring activities, controls, and tasks in spreadsheets can be overwhelming. Managing close-related updates and action items through email or conversations creates confusion. Breaking through it all is the secret to a faster, cleaner close.
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Against the backdrop of change and uncertainty, there’s an immediate need for the finance and accounting function to evolve. The opportunity has never been greater, the stakes have never been higher, and the risk of doing nothing is growing everyday. What’s a CFO to do?
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When it comes to automating the financial close process, how do you compare to other organizations? SSON and BlackLine recently conducted a global survey of finance and accounting leaders to gain a better understanding of robotics automation and its impact on technology, process, and people. Join the webcast to hear the findings.
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Au fur et à mesure que les postes non soldés s'accumulent, des ressources précieuses sont gaspillées, ralentissant ainsi les autres tâches comptables, les processus SAP et augmente le facteur risque lié au bilan. Un processus entièrement automatisé offre une efficacité sans précédent pour vos équipes comptables.
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Hear how QBE has implemented automation within their finance and accounting (F&A) functions and achieved greater efficiencies across their F&A operations. QBE Insurance Group is Australia's largest global insurer, operating in 37 countries worldwide. Gain valuable insights from the company's transformation journey, and learn how to utilise advanced process automation tools to provide greater value to the business.
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As the pace of business accelerates, the need for accurate, real-time financial data increases – but how do Accounting and Finance teams adjust? One innovative approach is Continuous Accounting, and Varian Medical Systems has a multi-year plan to get there.
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Accounting has evolved, and like the rest of the world, it is in the middle of a digital transformation. Hear first-hand from Hyatt and the impact technology and process improvements have made on transforming and modernizing the way its finance and accounting teams work.
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High volume reconciliations can be some of the most time-consuming components of the financial close process. However, technology can help automate up to 80% of the matching process, leaving you more time for those tasks that matter. Watch this webinar to explore the value that intelligent automation can deliver in transforming accounting operations.
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Join Mandy Strider, Director of Accounting, Interstate Hotels as she describes their journey to an improved close through standardization and the use of a cloud automation tool. And listen in as Michael Shultz, of BlackLine, looks at how existing technology can modernize your reconciliation and close operations and automate your period-end processes.
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Ensuring a trustworthy accounting and finance organization begins with you. These stories are written to give you the tools to build confidence within your organization, and also in the global economy. Get your copy of the BlackLine Quarterly today.
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Join BlackLine for a lively discussion and exploration of the impact of new technology on the world around us, from self-driving cars to the new (artificially intelligent) masters of the ancient board game Go. Change is here and accountants must embrace it, not to survive, but to thrive as expert analysts and strategic business partners.
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In this session EXL, a global Operations Management and Analytics leader, will illustrate its approach to process transformation that holistically integrates RPA, platforms and other digital technologies to deliver a combined value that is significantly greater than the sum of its parts.
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The digital evolution is transforming the way finance professionals must approach their job as well as the skills and tools they must use on a daily basis to drive organizational success. This session will cover how financial professionals can leverage the power of digital to transform finance and modernize the office of the CFO.
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The industry experts at Vaco will share how to effectively navigate a changing Finance and Accounting landscape to secure a much needed commitment to embrace transformation. Insights will include how to get (or keep) your momentum going and actionable steps to get you started on your journey.
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Advances in SAP technology, such as data analytics, have enabled finance departments to move away from mundane administrative tasks and play a more strategic role with organizations. So, what makes an effective finance leader in this new paradigm?
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Digital Transformation is more than just technology. It is the essential, intentional and deliberate disruption of people, processes and technologies to enable alignment with a company’s strategic vision. This presentation discusses where to begin improving your business processes, why you need to condition your organization for change, and why you should embrace positive disruption and the benefits of disrupting the status quo.
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SAP has opened new opportunities for business optimization with SAP S/4HANA, its most significant ERP upgrade since R3. This whitepaper provides a detailed look at how BlackLine helps accounting and finance organizations running or migrating to SAP. It covers the powerful complementary capabilities of BlackLine and SAP.
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New technologies and an increased focus on efficiency are changing the finance function and accounting in particular. AI, Machine Learning, and RPA are now being implemented across the board. Join this Proformative webcast to find out what all of this mean for today’s accounting departments.
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As the pace of change in business continues to accelerate, the simple fact is that every finance professional — as stewards of data and business support — must take on the role of business partner and challenger to deliver even greater strategic value. Download the CFO playbook, Finance Business Partnering, as your guide to success.
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Holen Sie sich das neue CFO-Playbook "Finance Technology" für eine Momentaufnahme der sich zur Zeit so schnell verändernden Technologielandschaft für F&A. Lesen Sie hier alles zu den aktuellen Schlüsseltechnologien, die für Ihre Transformations-Initiativen von Bedeutung sein können.
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is not the technology of the future... it's the technology of today. On July 25th, learn how a leading energy and utility company embedded RPA directly into their SAP environment to automate SAP activities with Smart Close.
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Despite being one of the most burdensome processes finance and accounting teams deal with today, automating the financial close process is often an afterthought as accountants continue to rely on the same manual, spreadsheet-driven processes that have always been in place.
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Rapid growth introduces new complexity and risk for a company’s accounting and finance processes. Learn how Discovery, Inc., a globally recognized brand in the mass media industry was able to strengthen their control environment and minimize risk.
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This CFO webcast explores what skills, training, and attributes finance teams will need to support and sustain successful companies of the future. And how advances in automation will require finance teams to devote less time to performing accounting tasks and more time to developing analytical skills,
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Reconciliations are one of the most labor-intensive, yet critical controls processes within any organization. Even the smallest mistake can compromise the integrity of your balance sheet and create discrepancies in your financial close. There is a simpler way to perform your reconciliation process that allows you to focus on analysis, risk mitigation, and exception handling.
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Organising, managing, and streamlining the journal entry process is a big challenge for many organisations. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be! Technology like BlackLine Journal Entry is revolutionising the entire journal entry process.
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Forward-thinking finance and accounting (F&A) teams are driving transformation initiatives and their organizations are benefiting from their efforts. They are driving cost efficiencies, increasing business agility and improving overall corporate performance. But how often are today’s F&A teams pausing to evaluate the risk of not changing antiquated practices? According to a recent whitepaper from BlackLine, the answer is rarely.
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BlackLine Smart Close is built with embedded Robotic Process Automation to automate more of your close than you ever thought possible. This brochure covers all you need to know about Smart Close including how smart close is embedded in, and complements, most versions of SAP.
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In today’s fast moving modern business world, manual accounting processes are a headache that can escalate into migraine territory during the financial close. Too much time is required to execute these tedious tasks, and limited controls increase the risk of error.
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Join this webinar to learn how to address and mitigate risk factors such as materiality of account balance, transaction volume, account balance subjectivity degree, and managing extensive manual transaction recording.
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Sie haben Interesse daran, die richtigen Fragen zum Thema Cloud-Cybersicherheit zu stellen, wenn es um die Auswahl eines Finance-Cloud Providers geht? Dann sollten Sie sich dieses CFO-Playbook ansehen. Sie erhalten mit diesem Whitepaper auch eine Checkliste für Cloud-Provider.
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Attend this webinar and learn the right steps to successfully navigate the bumpy road to a Digital Transformation and other new technologies. You'll hear from experts at EY and BlackLine on their experiences helping companies like yours find their transformative path.
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Hear from tax and finance transformation experts to explore how BlackLine’s Intercompany Hub is invaluable to a successful future and can help you BEAT the increasing complexities that intercompany accounting poses, streamline your settlement process and ensure compliance with the ever-changing tax landscape.
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Expectations are changing for reporting on the month-end close status. Organizations are looking for more unified self-service solutions, to shift from seeing an issue to easily acting on it. Read our buyers guide to learn what to look for in any new reporting solution.
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High volume reconciliations can be some of the most time-consuming components of the financial close process. However, technology can help automate up to 80% of the matching process, leaving you more time for those tasks that matter. Watch this webinar to explore the value that intelligent automation can deliver in transforming accounting operations.
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Join our webinar to learn how Cargill, the world’s largest privately held company, automates its global financial closing processes in SAP with BlackLine Smart Close. BlackLine’s solution embeds directly into SAP to strengthen financial controls, increase transparency, and minimize time and risk.
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Accounting has evolved and, like the rest of the world, is in the middle of a digital transformation. Hear first-hand from Hyatt about the impact technology and process improvements have made on transforming and modernising the way its finance and accounting teams work.
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Banks and credit unions are challenged more than ever by the balancing act of driving profitability and minimizing risk. Accounting is critical to success, yet it’s often mired in transactional work — making it difficult to gain the transparency and controls needed for greater agility in a highly competitive industry.
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Join Dominic Racine, Manager, General Accounting, Roche Diagnostics as he describes their journey from manual, excel-based processes, to an automated approach for reconciliations and journal entry. In this session, he’ll discuss using a cloud automation tool to embed controls throughout critical accounting functions.
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In today’s dynamic business culture, the controller's role continues to evolve. Accounting is becoming a critical component in enabling organizations to empower business managers with the data they need for sound decision-making.
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Despite being one of the most burdensome processes finance and accounting teams deal with today, automating the financial close process is often an afterthought as accountants continue to rely on the same manual, spreadsheet-driven processes that have always been in place.
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Healthcare organizations face unique challenges. It’s difficult to find the balance between improving patient outcomes and streamlining operational efficiency—especially while relying on manual processes and incompatible systems.
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The game is changing. Accounting teams are expected to close the books faster and more accurately than ever before, and what used to be their entire focus is now just the price of admission. As a result, future-focused accounting and finance leaders must move beyond their traditional role to partner with the business and provide real-time insights.
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Wie entwickelt sich die Finanzfunktion in den nächsten Jahren? Haymo Spiegel, Deloitte, und Dr. Ulrich Müller, BlackLine, wagen einen Blick in die Zukunft und zeigen auf, welche Trends für die Transformation entscheidend sind und wo die Finanzfunktion im Jahr 2025 stehen wird.
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Join us as Michael Shultz, of BlackLine, and Angelina Hendraka and Michelle Rai-Mohammed, of Franklin Templeton Investments, discuss how they implemented technologies to mitigate risk by improving the consistency of their global accounting operational processes.
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As pharmaceutical and biotech companies strive to fill product pipeline and expand market share, the need for real-time financial reporting is essential. With reliable financial information, companies can develop more informed reporting to maintain compliance, satisfy funders, and make data-driven decisions.
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Join Vaco’s finance Transformation leader(s) as they discuss what’s causing us the stress, what we need to change and how do get started. We’ll help demystify what Robotic Process Automation really means and explore how we might use it within Finance and Accounting Functions. It’s time to work smarter, not harder!
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An informative session detailing how you can use technology for compliance and audit. Explore specific use cases such as operational and IT audits, SOX 302 and 404, and remediation testing. Discover how compliance activities can be automatically linked to underlying detail, like account reconciliations and tasks. Lastly, learn about Clearsulting’s best practices for a technology implementation.
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Join us for a session on maintaining your digital finance progress. We will discuss how to maintain your momentum with BlackLine and beyond. Learn how innovating with robotic process automation (RPA), corporate performance management (CPM), and other digital finance tools can help you maximize the ROI from your BlackLine investment, keep your team motivated, and position you for success.
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In this session, we will discuss how to power up your systems, process, teams, and controls to give yourself and others (shareholders, investors, your CEO, etc.) confidence that you have the data and information to evaluate the business’ current health and the endurance to support rapid, exciting and challenging growth.
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Your current BlackLine products have set you up for success. They have saved you time and money. You also know an additional product (or two) can save you even more. The challenge? How do you convince your CFO that it is worth the investment?
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Intelligent enterprises effectively use their data assets to achieve their desired outcomes faster – and with less risk. Join this session to learn how to: Empower employees through process automation; Anticipate and proactively respond to customer needs; Invent new business models and revenue streams
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Hear from leading experts on proven methods and approaches for initiating and delivering transformation efforts to bring process improvement in the finance organization. After this session, you will be able to: Identify the types of initiatives to drive finance transformation; Identify technologies used to digitize the financial close, planning, and reporting cycles; Leverage a new perspective to initiative & deliver transformation efforts.
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There is an immediate need to change the way intercompany accounting is done and create an efficient reconciliation process with the right technology. Let’s not wait until January 1st to put our New Year’s resolution into action… the time for change is now!
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The past year has seen a proliferation of changes to financial regulations, coupled with growing interest among companies in improving the efficiency of their finance and accounting operations with the help of automation.
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