Optimize your Business Processes for Planning, Reporting and Analysis
When was the last time you examined – and optimized – your planning processes? Have you made adjustments over the last few years to accommodate changing office habits, work from home environments and mergers and acquisitions? If your business is like most,…
May 20, 2022
Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: Easier Intercompany Transactions
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, explaining five ways to make intercompany transactions easier and avoid the mess at month-end closing. Table of contents What Are Intercompany Transactions?1. Identify the Type of Transaction and Set up a Standard Process to…
May 12, 2022
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Adding a New Entry to Index Cube via Dynamic Report
If your IBM Planning Analytics model contains a cube that uses an index or slot dimension, you may encounter a situation where you’ll need to create a template that will allow your users to add data to an unused index. Below is…
May 10, 2022
FP&A Done Right: ESG Reporting Tools
There is a wide range of reasons why ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting is an exploding market. One reason is that consumers care about ESG. PwC’s 2021 Consumer Intelligence Series survey reports that 91% of business leaders believe their company has a…
May 6, 2022
Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: Changing the Culture in Accounts Receivable
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, written by Brian Morgan and was originally published in the Credit Research Foundation’s publication Perspective by CRF (Q4 2021). I was fed up with putting out fires. Every day we went from reacting…
April 28, 2022
Technical Bulletin: Changes to the IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Classic Experience – Cloud Version
In July 2022, IBM will release an update to IBM Planning Analytics Workspace. This update will include depreciating the Workspace Classic Experience for IBM Planning Analytics cloud clients and automatically updating clients using the Workspace Classic Experience to the “New Experience.” We…
April 28, 2022
FP&A Done Right: Continuous Planning Leads to Agile Businesses
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning. The author, Bob Hansen, explaining the value of continuous planning. Too many enterprises know firsthand the planning challenges that result from trying to achieve business agility during a time of constant…
April 22, 2022
Financial Close & Consolidation
Auto-Certification Rules for Balance Sheet Reconciliations in BlackLine
One major feature of BlackLine is its auto-certification rules for balance sheet reconciliations. The auto-certification rules allow the system to complete a balance sheet reconciliation for you, if it meets certain criteria. BlackLine finds that on average clients use these rules to reconcile 58%…
April 21, 2022
Financial Close & Consolidation
Workflow Capabilities for Balance Sheet Reconciliations in BlackLine
In today’s world, your accounting team may be spending significant time in status meetings or on emails regarding updates on balance sheet reconciliations. BlackLine has the power to change that. With BlackLine, you can easily run a report and instantly see which reconciliations are…