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Adoption of Automation Solutions for Monthly Close Lags Despite Desire to Reduce Close Period

Adoption of Automation Solutions for Monthly Close Lags Despite Desire to Reduce Close Period

by Controllers Council | Jun 22, 2022 | Corporate Finance, Finance Automation, Sponsor News

Accountants and finance professionals are familiar with long days and nights spent each month trying to close the books. Manual processes, errors, and lack of knowledge due to staff turnover often drive inefficiencies in financial reporting. In fact, it’s not uncommon...
Scale without Fail: Grow your Business with Financial Close Automation

Scale without Fail: Grow your Business with Financial Close Automation

by Controllers Council | May 6, 2022 | Automation, Finance Automation, Sponsor News

After two years, discussions that center around the challenges of the “Great Resignation” and post-pandemic recovery are starting to get old – yet both continue to persist and have a tremendous impact on businesses in various ways. As a result, while most...
Modernizing Accounting for Dummies

Modernizing Accounting for Dummies

by Controllers Council | Feb 15, 2022 | Accounting, Corporate Finance, Finance Automation, Sponsor News

As a Controller, you want to ensure financial accuracy while closing the books in the shortest period of time possible. There are often a number of activities that need to be completed before you can call the month a wrap. Typical monthly closing tasks can include...
Finance Automation Veteran Pens Digital Transformation Roadmap

Finance Automation Veteran Pens Digital Transformation Roadmap

by Controllers Council | Jan 17, 2022 | Digital Transformation, Finance Automation

Startup CFO Glenn Hopper recently published the book Deep Finance: Corporate Finance in the Information Age (Leaders Press, 2021), in which he asserts that cutting edge CFOs should take the lead in their companies’ digital transformations. “The same skills that made...
Why Manual Accounting is Not Sustainable

Why Manual Accounting is Not Sustainable

by Controllers Council | Dec 13, 2021 | Accounting, Automation, Finance Automation

Small organizations and startups typically use spreadsheets, entry level accounting or bookkeeping systems, and/or outsourced bookkeeping for accounting, financial reporting, and taxes. This manual accounting works for millions of small, simple businesses, but...
Trintech + Planful: Bringing Finance and Accounting Teams Together

Trintech + Planful: Bringing Finance and Accounting Teams Together

by Controllers Council | Dec 9, 2021 | Finance Automation, Microsoft Dynamics 365

Today, the frequency of forecasting and planning has accelerated from monthly, to weekly, and now in many cases, to daily. We have reached a point where the key concern of the CFO is no longer tactical issues – they’re expected to not just deliver value,...
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