Weekly Webinar: Continuous Accounting 101
No More Bullsheet: The Finance Automation Story
The accounting controls of many organizations are no longer effective in today's business environment. Michael Shultz, Director of Finance Transformation at BlackLine, and Hannah Marshall, Senior Accountant at Brooks Rehabilitation, will explain the reasons why, as well as why you need to make changes now. They will provide details on steps you can take to fix processes and the advantages you will gain by building a modern finance organization
How to Automate and Streamline the Financial Close Process in Your SAP Systems
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.
Continuous Accounting: The Future of Finance
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.
Managing tasks on spreadsheets? Seriously?
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 amazing concept, but a complex and critical element of effective financial close management.
Learn How Scotts Miracle-Gro Accelerates the Financial Close
Join BlackLine, SAP, and SAP Customer Scotts Miracle-Gro as we discuss how BlackLine’s reconciliation and accounting automation software complements SAP Solutions for Accounting and Closing to monitor and control the entire close process.
APAC Webinar: Intercompany Accounting Simplified
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.
Streamlining your intercompany accounting process
This webinar looks at valuable intercompany benchmarking data provided by Ventana Research, and how shared services are now being a lot more ‘timely’ and efficient in how they manage their intercompany settlements
Intercompany Accounting is a nightmare. It doesn’t have to be.
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.
Continuous Accounting: The Modern Approach to Closing the Books
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.
APAC Webinar: Why You Need to Modernise Your Journal Entry Management
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.
Anatomy of a SaaS Finance Team: How a SaaS Mind-set is Shaping the Future of Finance
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.
Modernizing and Automating Period-Accounting Processes
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.
Five Steps to Evolve Your Legacy Record-to-Report Process
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
Rewiring Finance to Achieve Greater Customer Success
“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.
Why You Need to Modernize Your Journal Entry Management
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.
How to achieve best-in-class recs: the Dun & Bradstreet story
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.
The Path to Building a Modern Finance Organization
Western Union shares how they use BlackLine integrated with Oracle and Hyperion Financial Management to build a modern finance organization by reducing risk, improving efficiency, and increasing the visibility of their close while still retaining the big-picture functionality of their ERP.
Free up time by matching and reconciling millions of transactions in minutes
Join us to learn how Transaction Matching products are helping businesses speed up their time to close, reconciling millions of transactions in minutes and allowing accounting teams to focus on value add activities.
Continuous Accounting Replaces the Record-to-Report Process
Thirty-one years ago, Microsoft Excel was first introduced. Now in 2016, 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. Join us as Susan Parcells, of BlackLine, and Rob Kugel, of Ventana Research, discuss how technology and process improvements have combined to transform and modernize the way finance and accounting teams work.
Filling in the Gaps in your Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP
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.
Setting up your finance and accounting processes for success as a public company
How should finance prepare your organization before you go public (or optimize if you already have)? Find out by watching “4 Steps to Success as Public Company; Setting Up your Accounting processes for the rigors of a Public Company
Driving innovation in the financial close process
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?
Being a Public Finance Department Isn’t Easy—Are You Ready?
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.
Benchmarking the financial close in the cloud ushers in a new era of performance
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.
The Road to Continuous Accounting: Five Steps to Evolve Your Legacy Record-to-Report Process
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.
Filling the Gaps in your Microsoft Great Plains ERP
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.
Webinar: Introduction to Continuous Accounting
Close activities and period-end accounting processes were not built for today’s modern business economy. The traditional Record-to-Report process means waiting for the end of a period to have accurate and verified data.
Modern Finance Can Revolutionize Your Accounting & Finance Operations
Join BlackLine, and SAP as we discuss how BlackLine’s Enhanced Financial Controls and Automation software can extend SAP’s S/4HANA to improve your financial close and reconciliation process and eliminate the need for error-prone spreadsheets.
Accelerating Your Finance Growth Engine
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.
Modern Finance Can Revolutionize Your Accounting & Finance Operations
Join BlackLine, SAP, and SAP Customer Northrop Grumman 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 manual error-prone spreadsheets.
The World is Moving to Modern Finance and Accounting Are You Ready?
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.
COSO Lessons Learned: The Evolution of Controls Assurance
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.
Reconciliations Done Right
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.
Are You Ready? Implementing COSO’s Updated Internal Controls Framework
In this webinar, Bob Hirth, COSO Chair, will provide a brief overview of the new COSO Framework, followed by an interactive discussion around the December 15 deadline set by COSO and what this means for companies that have – and have not yet – implemented the updated framework.
