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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
Technical Bulletin: Apache Log4j Vulnerability Impact on IBM Planning Analytics Models
Summary A vulnerability has been discovered involving Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228). Apache Log4j is used by IBM Planning Analytics Workspace as part of its logging infrastructure. This may have a significant impact on your existing models. Details This issue impacts all users currently…
December 15, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Maps
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) version 69 introduced a new map visualization for your charts. In addition to improving the identification of the geography elements, this new visualization introduces additional features such as … The ability to search for locations within the…
December 14, 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…
December 9, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Fill Function
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to add extra characters to a string in IBM Planning Analytics? Maybe you need ten characters, but the data source value only has seven characters. You can resolve this situation via the…
December 7, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Questions on Virtual Hierarchies in IBM Planning Analytics
Virtual hierarchies in IBM Planning Analytics are not as well understood as you might suspect. We’ve found that many Planning Analytics users don’t understand what virtual hierarchies are, how to use them, and when to use them. We’re here to answer your…
November 30, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Displaying Percentages on a Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Pie Chart
In a recent blog post we discussed pie charts and how you can show data points or percentages in an IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) pie chart. We also have an IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video that shows how easy it is…
November 23, 2021
Financial Close & Consolidation
Modern Accounting: Automating the Intercompany Accounting Process
This is a guest blog post from our partner BlackLine, written by Anders Liu-Lindberg and originally published on LinkedIn. Think of a finance and accounting process that only causes frustration and wasted hours without adding any value. Yes, there are quite a few of them, but…
November 18, 2021
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: PAW Pie Percent or Value?
Pie charts are one of the most common types of data visualizations. A pie chart is defined as a component report, which means that it is design to show part-to whole relationships. This approach makes it easy to get a general sense of…