Unify and automate financial close activities and streamline audits by modernizing error-prone, manual activities like reconciliations, journal entries, and controls.
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BlackLine’s cloud solutions for the financial close complement SAP solutions as part of an end-to-end offering for Finance. Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes—often performed outside the ERP—are not sustainable. BlackLine helps companies move to modern accounting by unifying processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. BlackLine solutions for SAP provide deep functionality and direct, real-time integration to SAP software. BlackLine helps accounting teams transform processes like close task orchestration and balance sheet substantiation. More than 3,500 companies, including more than 800 running SAP solutions, trust BlackLine to help them close faster with complete and accurate results. BlackLine is SAP’s 2021 Partner of the Year – Solution Extensions.
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As organizations increasingly rely on data to make decisions, the need for efficient and accurate financial closes has never been greater. However, many finance and accounting (F&A) teams still rely on manual financial close activities, leading to errors and delays. This leaves executives with less time for analysis and puts them at a disadvantage when making important business decisions. Financial close automation can help to reduce errors, speed up the process, and free up time for analysis
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BlackLine’s Financial Reporting Analytics Solution Now Sold as an SAP Solution ExtensionBlackLine recently announced that its Financial Reporting Analytics solution will now be offered as an SAP Solution Extension under the name SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, financial review option. BlackLine’s solution availability comes at a critical time for finance and accounting teams within SAP organizations. These teams are facing significant pressure to deliver analytics that empower data-based decision making.
SAPinsider’s AI and Automation in Finance Report found that the financial close is one of the biggest pain points among SAP finance teams, cited as an issue by 33% of survey respondents. Yet just 15% of these same organizations are utilizing automated financial close solutions.
SAPinsider Buyers Guide: Finance ManagementBusinesses are constantly searching for upgrades to their financial systems to improve their bottom line and promote innovation. The economy is rapidly changing, and organizations are beginning to realize that financial transformation is an essential step they must take in order to remain competitive and innovate. Additionally, with finance leaders now embracing more strategic roles for guiding their organizations, their roles have evolved beyond their conventional back-office responsibilities. They are tasked with more strategic roles in steering modern organizations.
To help SAP users make some of these critical decisions, SAPinsider put together this Buyers Guide, which aims to explore the challenges, opportunities and trends in the SAP financial management space and to highlight key vendors and partners. The vendor capability assessments are intended to aid and assist finance professionals in selecting the most suitable solutions for their needs. The participating organizations offer technology and consulting services that enhance the financial capabilities of SAP organizations, enabling them to manage cash and payments, enact core accounting processes, minimize tax burden, perform financial close activities, remain compliant, and make long-term plans to secure their financial future.
A Smarter Approach to IntercompanyCompanies are constantly, merging, shifting, growing, and reorganizing across borders. Finance and accounting teams must coordinate transactions among different parts of the business, which often span between different geographic locations. These sectors each have their own tax laws and regulatory bodies to appease, which may be in flux. Many large multinational organizations also have a disparate and siloed technological ecosystem, which can make it difficult to get on the same page.
In this article, you will learn why it is important to have a global view of all financial activity, and how organizations can achieve that visibility worldwide in real-time. You will also learn the importance of going “Beyond Zero” when it comes to the financial close, and how organizations can ensure that their solutions will integrate seamlessly with the rest of their ERP landscape.
A “No Regrets” Approach to Financial TransformationAs businesses look to the future and modernize their practices, digital transformation has become a top priority. Although IT and the business team often take center stage in digital transformation initiatives, finance and accounting teams and processes can play a critical role in delivering success.
Digital transformation, like a move to SAP S/4HANA, for example, should be approached as a journey. And as with any expedition, it helps to have a guide who has made the trip before, can lead you on your way and help find the solutions that make the most sense for your business.
You can use this case study as a guide to pick your way through some of the thorny issues of your financial transformation, use it as a way to kickstart a larger digital transformation, and have "no regrets" in how you transform the financial activities of your organization.
Optimizing Financial Close and Record-to-Report ProcessIn This Report: Over the last two years, SAPinsider research has shown that the financial close and record to-report process represent significant pain points for most organizations. Over-reliance on manual processes and poorly integrated systems have left many companies struggling with inefficiency. Read this report to: Discover where SAPinsiders are when it comes to improving […]
Understanding the many applications of “Reconciliation” – How SAP Financial Close Solutions by BlackLine Complement SAP S/4HANAIf you’ve explored the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA you’ve probably heard that one of its benefits is the elimination of reconciliations. If you’ve seen this and you’re also evaluating SAP Solution Extensions by BlackLine for the financial close, you may be wondering whether companies running SAP S/4HANA would need SAP Financial Close Solutions by BlackLine.
The Universal Journal and Journal Entry Functionality in SAP Financial Close Solutions by BlackLine ExplainedIn a previous blog we talked about the benefits of the Universal Journal – the architecture of SAP S/4HANA. In that post, we focused how the Universal Journal eliminates intra-ERP reconciliations that were previously needed in legacy SAP environments like SAP ECC. Let’s expand upon that discussion and address the Universal Journal as it relates to journal entry management. Specifically, let’s break down what this means for the journal entry functionality offered by SAP Financial Close Solutions by BlackLine.
May The (Intercompany) Force Be With You: How BlackLine and SAP Restore BalanceIntercompany is a powerful force in multinational organizations. Spanning the office of the CFO, traditional processes pose challenges to organizations and the effects have far reaching impacts if left unchecked. Out of balances, disputes, write offs, and impacts to the bottom line are just the beginning. But there is hope.
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