Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: The Business Case for Financial Close Management Software
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, written by Robert Kugel, SVP & Research Director at Ventana Research. Robert’s post makes the case for automating the close. There is a longstanding agreement on the importance of a company closing its…
October 7, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Color Schemes in a Waterfall Chart
Did you know IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to change the color scheme in your waterfall charts? The goal of a waterfall chart is to show how an initial value is affected by the intermediate values – either positives or…
October 5, 2021
Fluence Technologies and Revelwood Enter Strategic Partnership
Today we announced a new strategic partnership with Fluence Technologies, the only pure-play provider of financial close and consolidation software purpose-built for mid-sized companies. “The Office of Finance is charged with many tasks to help their organizations run efficiently and effectively,” said…
September 21, 2021
FP&A Done Right: The Value of Scenario Planning
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, highlighting the value of scenario planning in modern finance. Considering all that’s happened over the last year, the case for robust scenario planning has rarely been stronger. Scenario planning—the practice…
September 17, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Defining a Process Within Existing Chores
There are times when you need to change a process within an existing chore in IBM Planning Analytics. The challenge is to understand what chores will be impacted by a change in a process. You could edit or remove and process and…
September 14, 2021
Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: The Transformed Accountant
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, written by Anders Liu-Lindberg, a leading advisor to senior Finance and FP&A leaders on how to succeed with business partnering. Finance and Accounting have been in a decade-long transformation journey, and while…
September 10, 2021
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks
Workday Adaptive Planning Tips & Tricks: Flexible Planning
Do you know how flexible Workday Adaptive Planning is? One of the key elements to any enterprise planning system is usability by different users with different needs. Workday Adaptive Planning is particularly flexible and allows for a variety of views. Watch this…
September 8, 2021
FP&A Done Right: CFOs See a Bright Future for the Remainder of 2021
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, examining trends and data presented in a PwC Pulse Survey of finance leaders. As CFOs look ahead to the remainder of 2021 and beyond, a new survey finds them increasingly…
September 3, 2021
Workday Adaptive Planning Insights
Reporting in Workday Adaptive Planning
Do you know how easy it is to create a report in Workday Adaptive Planning? Watch this short video to get an overview of a typical variance report, see how to easily create a new report, and how to use OfficeConnect to…