Financial Close & Consolidation
Managing your Month-End Checklist in BlackLine
How do you track your month-end checklist? Many companies use a spreadsheet, have lots of status meetings and emails among the accounting team throughout the close process. BlackLine can save you a significant amount of time on your month, quarter and year-end activities. Watch…
February 3, 2022
FP&A Done Right: Building the Case for Driver-Based Planning
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, providing 5 ways to increase buy-in for driver-based planning. Driver-based planning can be a game-changer for your organization—but only if everyone is in on the game. So, yes, it’s smart…
January 28, 2022
Financial Close & Consolidation
Activity Analysis in BlackLine
Did you know BlackLine can save you a significant amount of time in your month, quarter and year-end close activities? In our latest BlackLine Quick Take video, Adam Riskin demonstrates how to use BlackLine to analyze your accounting team’s activity and therefore determine how…
January 20, 2022
FP&A Done Right: xP&A Should be in your Future
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, explaining why xP&A is the future of planning. With its promise of extending FP&A principles beyond finance and into other areas of the business, xP&A (extended planning and analysis) is…
January 14, 2022
Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: The Importance of Robotic Process Automation in Accounting
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, written by David Brightman, on the impact of robotic process automation in accounting. Robotic process automation (RPA) is a general set of automation tools for replicating any manual, repetitive process at scale, often by automating…
January 6, 2022
BPM Pulse Survey 2021: 96% of Respondents Say Performance Management Solutions Met or Exceeded Expectations
Every year BPM Partners surveys finance and other leaders from end user organizations for their views on the state of performance management (also called business performance management or corporate performance management). This year’s study looked at a number of aspects of performance management, such…
December 22, 2021
FP&A Done Right: The Office of Finance’s Powerplay — Activity-Based Planning
This is a guest blog post from Christopher Howard, senior channel manager at Workday Adaptive Planning. “I want to skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” – Wayne Gretzky Disruption in business means the puck is no longer where…
December 17, 2021
Financial Close & Consolidation
Prepaid Expenses Account Reconciliation in BlackLine
In today’s Quick Take video, Adam Riskin demonstrates how to create and certify a prepaid expense account in BlackLine. Prepaid expenses can be a time consuming and tedious task when doing reconciliations in Excel. BlackLine provides a streamlined and efficient process for this through…
December 16, 2021
Financial Close & Consolidation
Accrued Account Reconciliation in BlackLine
We’ve launched a new video series – Quick Takes of features and tips on BlackLine’s cloud-based modern accounting platform. Watch this short video from Adam Riskin to learn how quick and easy it is to complete an accrual account reconciliation in BlackLine. Accrual account reconciliations can…