Events

Thursday, July 17 at 1 PM CST

Join the Controllers Council to be the first to learn the results of the 2025 CFO/Controller Corporate Accounting & Finance Talent Study. Panelists include Joy Mbanugo, CFO at CXAI, and other panelists to be announced. Moderated by Lindy Antonelli, Partner, Technology Practice at Armanino.

Thursday, July 24 at 1 PM CST

You know your organization is in the midst of a cash flow crunch when payables exceed receivables. As cash reserves run low, late payments increase borrowing costs, exacerbating a vicious cycle of delays and fees. But a cash flow crunch is not inevitable nor need it be a rite of passage for a growing organization. During this webinar, you’ll learn from finance and accounting leaders how to.

Thursday, August 7 at 1 PM CST

Facing challenges with legacy tools and processes in your financial planning and analysis? You’re not alone. Join well-known FP&A expert Carl Seidman, along with insightsoftware’s Warwick Leitch and Lee Greer Jr, for a 45-minute webinar to learn how to tackle these complexities head-on. We’ll discuss common challenges with Excel and other legacy products and demonstrate how modern, user-focused solutions overcome them; keeping everything connected, aligned, and efficient.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, lean finance teams are being asked to do more with less. Controllers and CFOs often juggle multiple responsibilities, making it essential to have tools that streamline processes, boost visibility, and maintain control—without adding to the headcount. Join us for an insightful webinar designed specifically for finance leaders looking to modernize their spend management.

ERP implementations don’t have to be slow, expensive, or disruptive. Join us for an exclusive webinar to learn how NetSuite Now by Citrin Cooperman helps growing companies launch NetSuite in under 90 days, delivering fast results without sacrificing scalability or support.

Business, technology and corporate finance/accounting are changing rapidly. And are department plans for 2025 made back in 2024 still applicable? So how can you prepare your accounts payable (AP) team to adapt and excel? Join this insightful 60-minute panel discussion for a fresh look at what’s happening in AP today, the issues poised to have the biggest impact on the AP function going forward and how to position your team for success through it all.

Many organizations lack the resources they need to employ finance and accounting staff, including access to local expertise. But hiring a full-time, on-site finance and accounting team is but one of several options an organization can consider as it evolves. During this webinar, a panel of finance executives will reveal the most important factors to keep in mind.

Join our expert panel as we explore the pros and cons of outsourced accounting, compare it to insourced staffing, and discuss how fractional or interim accounting roles can support your finance function. We’ll also dive into the key accounting processes best suited for outsourcing and provide actionable insights to help you determine the best strategy for your team.

Are you leaving money on the table? You could be if you’re still using scattered spreadsheets or manual emails to remind your customers to pay their invoices. Modernizing and streamlining your invoice delivery and collections strategy means more payments with less effort. If more cashflow and better liquidity is what you’re after, join us to explore the exciting realities of automating your collections strategy.

The finance landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by transformative trends like AI, cloud adoption, and process automation. Are your reporting processes ready to meet these challenges head-on? Join our exclusive webinar with guest speaker, The FP&A Guy, to explore how finance teams can modernize their operations, enhance accuracy, and reclaim time for strategic decision-making—all with Spreadsheet Server. This solution empowers you to automate financial reporting processes, seamlessly integrate data from over 140 ERP systems, and create customized reports directly within Excel’s familiar interface.

During this webinar, we'll share findings from BILL's 2025 Finance Leader Outlook research report, which reveals key priorities of controllers, CFOs, and other finance decision makers. You'll hear how finance leaders are preparing to address challenges in areas that include

- Financial management

- Automation and AI

- Cybersecurity and fraud

- Attracting and retaining talent

Manual workflows may seem "good enough," but they could be costing you time, money, and opportunities for growth. The real question is: how do you take your AR processes from manual to modern? In this webinar, we’ll show you how to take control of your AR operations with a simple, step-by-step approach. Discover how to achieve quick wins like automating invoicing, build momentum by connecting your order-to-cash (O2C) processes, and refine your AR strategy for better performance and measurable results.

Join us for the Controller Cup 2025, where we recognize the outstanding achievements of Controllers who are redefining financial leadership and innovation. This year’s awards celebrate those who’ve demonstrated speed, precision, creativity, and impact in their roles.

Many accounts payable professionals face long hours, repetitive tasks, and limited career growth opportunities. These challenges not only affect job satisfaction but also have broader implications for finance teams, including productivity, engagement, and employee retention. So, what role does automation play in addressing these challenges? A recent Institute of Finance Management (IOFM) 2024 AP Career Satisfaction Survey sheds light on the evolving expectations of AP professionals and how automation can create a more fulfilling work environment.

Is your data ready for artificial intelligence (AI)? In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, the power of AI is changing finance functions. In this webinar, we will explore the rise of AI in finance planning and analysis (FP&A), and we’ll introduce you to how we are incorporating AI into our Excel reporting solution.

In 2025, organizations expect more than ever from the Office of the CFO. Simply keeping track of cashflow and financial operations is no longer enough. Today’s CFOs are under pressure to take cost saving measures, find more revenue-generating opportunities, prevent an always-growing list of risks, increase sustainability and provide deeper insights to the c-suite.  Thankfully, Finance professionals have a resource they can lean on in meeting these new responsibilities: AI-driven automation. In this 60-minute webinar, you’ll learn 5 ways this powerful technology is helping CFOs radically transform financial operations across their organizations. 

Join the Controllers Council to be the first to learn the results of the 2025 CFO/Controller Outlook & Sentiment Study from a bluechip panel of your peers. This important research seeks to understand how business and economic environments are shaping corporate finance strategy, planning, and priorities. With unprecedented geopolitical risk, rapidly changing financial markets, and return-to-office talent challenges, how will CFOs and financial controllers manage in 2025 and beyond? The study identifies a Financial Performance Index (FPI), along with predictions for changes in financial metrics, spending, talent and more in 2025. The study concludes with the always insightful question, “What keeps you up at night?”

As organizations aim to remain responsive and resilient in 2025 and beyond, optimizing working capital and cashflow is essential. Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a key role in supporting these and other goals of the Office of the CFO — not only helping to streamline routine accounts receivable (AR) activities, but also provide valuable predictive insights and strengthen customer relationships. Intrigued by the possibilities of AI in your AR department? In this webinar, you’ll discover what types of AI are commonly used for credit management, cash application credit management and more.

As we enter 2025, businesses face an increasingly complex landscape shaped by persistent economic volatility, geopolitical tensions, and rapid technological advancements. Unpredictable interest rates, inflation, stock market and currency fluctuations, and global supply chain realignments remain at the forefront of challenges. Navigating these complexities is essential for C-suite decision-makers—including CFOs, Controllers, CEOs, COOs, and CIOs. Join us for an exclusive session with Curtis Dubay, a nationally recognized economist and Chief Economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as he shares actionable insights to help your organization thrive amidst the uncertainties of 2025 and beyond.

As your company grows and conducts business with an increasing number of suppliers, it's likely that you will need to establish a dedicated team to manage procurement. How do you ensure your procurement team will be able to partner effectively with your accounts payable team? 

Ready to make 1099s the easiest part of your taxes? Join our webinar to explore BILL’s brand newest product: 1099 Filing. We’ll show you how to categorize payments in bulk, directly e-file 1099s with the IRS, and choose between electronic or physical delivery for your vendors—all within the BILL platform you already know and trust. The session will include a live demo and a Q&A to answer any questions you may have.

Citrin Cooperman is hosting an exclusive webinar, Unlocking Innovation – Key Updates from Microsoft Ignite! Join us for an in-depth look at the latest announcements and innovations revealed at Microsoft Ignite, and discover how they can drive transformation in your business and IT strategies.

Using artificial intelligence (AI), finance leaders can automate routine tasks such as entering bills and routing approvals. But that's only the beginning. AI is especially adept at discovering trends that may not be obvious even to experienced finance teams. In addition to revealing trends, AI is a valuable resource for advising finance leaders about how to manage cash flow as efficiently as possible.

This timely and insightful webinar will focus on generative AI as an invaluable ally to finance teams. It will explore how AI can automate manual tasks, deliver richer outputs from contract reviews to flux analysis, and how AI can free up time to focus on more critical analyses to drive growth.

Many finance teams continue to rely on manual processes to perform tasks, such as recording expenses or routing approvals, that lend themselves best to automation. When looking for ways to manage financial operations more efficiently, finance leaders don't have to become experts in technology. Instead, they can seek guidance from their counterparts in IT.

Are you ready to leverage the secrets behind successful FP&A teams? Join our webinar to better understand the challenges and priorities finance teams face in 2024. For the fourth year running, insightsoftware has partnered with Hanover Research to survey 500 finance decision-makers across North America–and we want to discuss critical findings as well as their impact on business confidence. In this webinar, insightsoftware’s Solutions Engineer Strategist, Sue Maloney, and Hanover Research’s Managing Director, James Wilcox, dive into the key findings of the survey.

As we approach 2025, new technologies are coming to the forefront and the role of the finance function is shifting across companies of all sizes. This webinar will explore how cutting-edge innovations like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and automation are reshaping the way finance teams operate.  How will this evolution impact CFOs and finance teams?  Join AvidXchange to gain insights into the top 7 trends finance leaders and teams should consider to stay ahead of the curve and prepare for 2025.  

Businesses with recurring revenue models offer greater financial predictability and lower risk. But as this model continues to evolve, legacy financial processes and systems can significantly hinder an organization’s future growth opportunities. Don't miss this webinar sponsored by BillingPlatform, the leading enterprise revenue lifecycle management platform for today’s innovative business models. Attendees will learn the key challenges facing CFOs today, pitfalls to avoid, and leave with a roadmap to modernizing their business’s revenue lifecycle.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful technology that can help finance departments build efficiencies and streamline processes. During this webinar, we’ll dive into AvidXchange’s proven, AI-powered AP automation solutions and how they increase accuracy and enable your finance team to deliver increased strategic value to your business.

Join us as AvidXchange’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, David Tareen, shares an overview of these capabilities designed with invoice automation in mind:

• Scan and extract invoice data with 99.2% accuracy
• Answer questions and gain insights using natural language
• Find missing invoices and automatically notify suppliers
• Reduce invoice exceptions through machine learning
• Accelerate invoice processing times with automated, AI-powered data capture

Allow us to fast-track your strategy for AI in finance and accounts payable with our proven, AI-powered AP automation solutions.

Effective finance leaders know it is better to anticipate potential risks than wait until they become actual problems. During this webinar, you'll hear expert recommendations from finance leaders about how to recognize and reduce financial risks.

Society is becoming accustomed to modern conveniences like online shopping with same-day delivery and mobile wallets for instantly transferring money to friends. Likewise, savvy companies are adopting the latest payment technologies to bring the same convenience, speed, and security to their accounts payable (AP) departments. Join AvidXchange consultants to learn how cutting-edge payment technologies can help future-proof finance departments in an uncertain macroeconomic environment, helping you stay productive and competitive. 

Join us for an insightful webinar where experts delve into the best practices in budgeting and forecasting, along with financial dashboards using the latest tools and techniques. With the 2025 planning season right around the corner, this is the perfect opportunity to refine your strategies and make your corporate budgeting process successful.

Excel isn’t going anywhere, so don’t miss this opportunity to explore Excel's continued modernization and discover a powerful solution for your spreadsheet-related challenges. The FP&A Guy is joined by insightsoftware to bring you a webinar that dives into the fascinating world of Excel's modernization and discuss how you can take your reporting in Excel to the next level. In this insightful session, we'll explore the evolving landscape of Excel and how it continues to shape the way we work and manage data.

Join the Controllers Council to be the first to learn the results of the 2024 CFO/Controller Corporate Accounting & Finance Talent Study. Panelists include Joy Mbanugo, CFO @ServiceRocket, and Brandt Kucharski, CAO @Ethos Life, and former CAO @Grubhub. The panel will be moderated by Lindy Antonelli, Partner, Armanino Technology Practice and Controllers Council Board Chair.

Join us for an enlightening webcast where we delve into the innovative world of Accounts Receivable (AR) automation. This session will provide you with an in-depth look at how your peers transforming their AR processes, enhancing efficiency and accelerating cash flow.

Whether acquiring other businesses or introducing new lines of business, companies can achieve sustainable growth by becoming multi-entity organizations. But companies that maintain inefficient processes will inhibit their growth unless finance leaders rethink how their teams develop workflows, reconcile transactions, and manage financial operations.

Effective finance leaders don't predict; they prepare. With scenario planning, finance leaders anticipate how specific circumstances, such as reductions or increases in revenue, inventory, or headcount, affect an entire business. By considering the assumptions and priorities that underlie the scenarios they plan for, finance leaders enable their companies to adapt quickly as conditions change.

Ongoing macro-economic conditions underscore that now more than ever, a focus on procurement unlocks hidden value for finance and accounting leaders working to optimize spend, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. In this session, Zip’s Advisory and Finance Leadership Team will leverage their experiences as the former Head of Procurement @ Grafana and former Sr. Director of Accounting at Opendoor to share practical guidance for companies focused on building and maturing procurement.

Unlock the full potential of your Salesforce investment! Discover how 5 key Salesforce features (including AI) can radically transform your operational efficiency and improve your ROI. During this session, we will dive into the transformative features of Salesforce, particularly focusing on automation, Einstein AI, and the newly optimized Flow tool. Chris Hunter and Patrick Fallon, Managers of Salesforce Digital Services at Citrin Cooperman, will guide you through practical strategies to leverage these tools for enhancing business operations and decision-making processes.

Today's finance leaders are under pressure to do more with less, to somehow cut costs, increase efficiency, and drive growth. All while their days are consumed by manual work. How are they supposed to do it all? AI is the answer. This webinar focuses on Generative AI as an invaluable ally to finance teams. Join us to explore how AI can automate manual tasks, deliver richer outputs for everything from contract reviews to flux analysis, and — best of all — free you to focus on more critical analyses and partnering with stakeholders to drive growth.

How do you convince other stakeholders? How do you show that accounting automation will benefit the business and not just your team? That it won’t create more work internally? That ROI will be seen and felt quickly? Join this webinar to hear Ray Lau, CEO of Leapfin, walk through how high-growth companies like Canva, Reddit, and SeatGeek successfully built the case for accounting automation and show you how you can do the same.

Does your finance team become anxious during audits? To keep your finance team calm, focus on what's within your company's control: auditability, accountability, and preparation. Auditability refers to the visibility your company provides into details of specific transactions. Accountability establishes who is responsible for initiating, reviewing, approving, and processing them. With assistance from automation, your company can gather and maintain information auditors are most likely to ask for. By furnishing your finance team with information that is timely and accurate, you can ensure your company is ready for financial audits.

The role of the CFO is evolving, and it’s essential to be prepared for what the future holds. Join BILL for an upcoming “Next in finance: The CFO of the future” virtual event to learn how technology will impact the role of the CFO in the years to come.

Register to hear:

• Insights from from industry and accounting thought leaders as well as BILL’s very own CFO.
• Tracks for both finance leaders at businesses and those at accounting firms are available.

A high DSO has a tremendous impact on cashflow, revenue and even your company’s ability to invest in growth strategies. But how can Finance leaders help their teams reach the lowest DSO possible and quickly recover payment on accounts receivable (AR) when so many customers wait to pay until terms or even pay late? Join Esker’s Business Development Manager, Jim Ackerman, for an insightful webinar outlining the importance of lowering DSO, what external factors contribute to slow-paying customers, and what strategies can be enacted

In today's competitive business landscape, equipping your Accounts Payable team with automation isn't just a choice, it's a necessity for teams being tasked to do more with less. If your team handles more than 500  invoices a month, automating your back-office operations is the key to maintaining Control, managing Compliance, and creating visibility into Cash Flow.

Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring insights from The FP&A Guy. We will cover finance trends that will shape 2024 and get valuable perspectives, strategic insights, and actionable tips to stay ahead in the dynamic financial landscape. But that's not all! The webinar will also include a special product demonstration showcasing cutting-edge solutions designed to elevate your financial reporting with innovative tools and features.

By preparing accurate and actionable cash flow forecasts, your finance team serves as a strategic partner to your business. But forecasts are only as informative as the underlying data. Our panel of experts includes Philip Peck, VP Advisory Services and Finance Transformation Practice @ Peloton Consulting Group, and Joe Fleischer, Marketing @ BILL. Moderated by Controllers Council Executive Director Neil Brown.

As the roles of controllers evolve, what will controllership look like in 3 years? A panel of corporate accounting and finance experts including Gregg D'Eon, Corporate Controller @ DraftKings, and Brenna Albert, VP Global Controller @ Medline Industries, and moderator Neil Brown, Executive Director @ Controllers Council will share their predictions and perspectives about key priorities

We’ll review our 2024 survey results, including views on automation, priorities, and plans for this year.. Find out how your peers are approaching remote work challenges, trends in automation and AI, and managing their finances for growth.

As fewer people pursue accounting, many companies are experiencing talent shortages in finance departments. Knowing how to engage employees in finance can reduce the stress of interviews, onboarding, and other hiring challenges. By attending this webinar, you will learn how to attract top talent to your finance team as well as how to improve the team's productivity and engagement.

In a video game, when you’re preparing to face off against the bad guy, you’ll often stumble across some magic potion that gives you superhuman speed and prescience so you can save the day.  In the office, this power-up is BILL! When facing the boss “Delayed invoice payments,“ BILL will help you automate your payments, so you’re never late again.  Join us to see how BILL can help you vanquish the other monsters in your payable processes. 

Without proper internal controls, accounts payable (AP) practices can expose businesses to significant risks, including those of financial errors, duplicate payments, and potential fraud. This webinar will provide an overview of the importance of internal controls in AP and explore how they can help mitigate risks and ensure accuracy.

Join the Controllers Council to be the first to learn the results of the 2024 CFO/Controller Sentiment Study. This important research seeks to understand how macro-economic trends are shaping corporate finance strategy, planning, and priorities. With unprecedented geopolitical risk, high interest rates and inflation, rapidly changing financial markets, a potential recession and continued talent challenges, how will CFOs and financial controllers manage in 2024 and beyond?

Are you tired of spending countless hours manually creating, updating, and distributing your financial reports? Do you wish there was a more efficient way to access real-time data within Microsoft Excel? If so, join us for a webinar on how to revolutionize your reporting processes with Spreadsheet Server. Spreadsheet Server is a powerful Excel-based reporting tool that empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions with speed and precision. Whether you're a financial analyst, accountant, or business manager, this webinar is designed to introduce you to the benefits of Spreadsheet Server and demonstrate how it can simplify your reporting workflows.

Your company is on the verge of achieving sustainable growth when it no longer limits its priorities to meeting the next quarter's goals. To equip your company to synthesize information about the present to support growth into the future, your finance team will have to expand its capabilities to encompass financial planning and analysis (FP&A).

Despite easing pandemic pressures, economic and political environments continue to be both unpredictable and rapidly changing. High interest rates, inflation, volatility in the stock market and foreign exchange, and for some, recession and supply chain issues. Domestic and global economics will prove challenging to C-Suite decision makers including CEOs, Controllers and CFOs, COOs and CIOs. To understand and manage these uncertainties, learn from renown economist and subject matter expert Dan North, a nationally-recognized economist and Chief Economist, Allianz Trade.

Though AI offers many opportunities, as with any new technology, businesses may experience implementation challenges. Organizations are struggling to create policies and guidelines to ensure their data and other proprietary information is protected. Additionally, organizations are realizing that employee training is essential to empowering their workforce with AI.

During this session, we’ll address the valid concerns of implementing transformational technology, given the different mindsets of finance leaders. Let’s explore where we are on AI’s hype cycle and look at what’s transpired in the past year to tease out the practical applications of AI from the hype.

Do you dread closing your books for the year? Without full visibility into invoices and payments, what should be a routine process can feel like a nightmare. Put an end to the annual ritual of chasing down bills and receipts by optimizing your financial operations and providing your company with accurate, up-to-date information about all payables and receivables.

With today’s explosion of customer-centric business models and heightened audit scrutiny, revenue recognition has become increasingly complex and revenue teams are under pressure to modernize. Learn from panelists Matt Dobson, Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) of ZUORA, and Rachel Noel, Director of Revenue of ZUORA, who will share the story of their team’s modernization journey and how they were able to decrease their close time by 67%.

With digital transformation and technology adoption top of mind for many finance leaders in 2024, emerging tools like artificial intelligence (AI), new payment methods like FedNow and insights powered by data analytics are rapidly reshaping finance teams.  But which trends are truly worth your attention in 2024?  Join AvidXchange consultants to learn about the top five trends finance leaders should have on their radar as they plan for 2024 to help their teams.

Now, more than ever, visibility into your company’s performance is paramount to making sound decisions. Yet, many finance teams have only scratched the surface of their data’s full potential. Manual exports into Excel are one of the most common, problematic practices we see - but Excel is not the problem. In this webinar, you’ll see first-hand how you can elevate the effectiveness of five essential Excel reports by embracing the power of automation.

This next interview in the series features Christie Kozlik, Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) for Accel Entertainment, a gaming terminal operator. Prior roles included Assurant and Allstate, along with more than 13 years public accounting at KPMG. Christie earned a BS, Accounting and Legal Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. She is a CPA in Illinois and Virginia, and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

As a finance leader, you rely on Excel to get your job done. But as your company grows, the accounting processes become more complicated, and reliance on Excel for financial consolidation can become a huge hinderance to the team’s ability to provide accurate financials in a timely manner. Join Fluence Technologies VP Operations Guy Menard, CPA and Productive Business Solutions Limited CFO Andres Ibanez to discuss some of the pitfalls of using Excel for financial consolidation and how you can avoid them.

Amid rapid innovation and advancing technology, finance leaders need to develop new skills to grow in their careers and provide value to their organizations. Learn career tips and ideas from a panel of corporate accounting experts.

Looking for the perfect payments approvals process? Curious about how to send international payments via credit card? Or even just wondering which types of payments to use in the day-to-day scenarios your business encounters? Join us for a payments-focused lunch and learn webinar with one of BILL’s solution consultants. 

The regulatory landscape for sustainability reporting has evolved quickly in recent weeks, with the introduction of IFRS S1 and S2, updates to ESRS, and endorsements from IOSCO. In the United States, the SEC is expected to release their official guidance in the coming weeks – with big implications for both public and private companies.

What are digital transformation leaders using in their planning processes to gain a significant competitive advantage? Artificial Intelligence. Maybe it’s time for you to start doing the same. Too much time is often spent on manual processes rather than the more strategic and value-driven aspects that FP&A teams can provide. So, how can the introduction of AI impact your planning and decision-making process?

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the accounting function is facing a trifecta of obstacles that are putting increasing pressure on controllers: expanding regulatory requirements, rising business complexities, and a shortage of skilled accounting professionals. To overcome these challenges and position their organizations for future success, controllers are embracing technology to strategically modernize their accounting function to deliver new value to the business and create a competitive advantage.

During this webinar, you’ll hear from accounting leaders—representing companies of all sizes—as they discuss the impacts of these challenges on their organizations and their strategies for equipping their staff to prosper in a fast-paced and unpredictable environment.

History does not always repeat itself. Despite planning for the future, finance leaders will encounter scenarios for which they have not prepared. To enable their companies to remain flexible yet disciplined in unforeseen circumstances, finance leaders rely on financial planning and analysis (FP&A). But many companies lack the data they need or the ability to interpret data to employ FP&A effectively.

Join this discussion hosted by Yooz and Contoller’s Council as finance leaders break down the ever-changing world of finance and accounting in 2023. Panelists will dive into the evolving role of the CFO and what is essential for progress in the modern accounting industry. Topics will highlight crucial skills for success, workplace changes, and AI’s role in the future of Accounts Payable (AP).

When it comes to extracting reporting data, what is better – replication or real-time? What are the best options for your use cases? What are the pros and cons? Surely, we always want real time, right? Using Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Connector (BICC) is the Oracle recommended method to extract medium to high volumes of data. It is considered the optimal approach for deeper analytical insights, as it minimizes strain on the transactional database and improves overall performance. By utilizing BICC replication, your operational database can remain unaffected by the analytical workload.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more commonplace, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are recognizing opportunities to use AI to modernize their finance operations, especially in accounts payable (AP). AI can significantly reduce, or even eliminate, many of the time-consuming, manual tasks involved in processing invoices. It also has the power to discover preferences and apply them to future processes.

Now that business travel is back, expenses are happening everywhere that your employees are. But they’re also everywhere across your organization. In order to regain control and visibility, it’s critical to bring all of your spend together under one umbrella. To help you get a sense of how real-world companies achieve this, Thomas Piani, the Spend Management product leader at Brex, hosts finance leaders from leading companies for a live discussion about how they’re using Brex to manage their spend.

Calling all trivia enthusiasts! Get your thinking caps on because we're hosting the ultimate Accounts Payable trivia showdown! Get ready to showcase your financial expertise and earn exciting prizes along the way. 

The 2023/2024 Corporate Accounting and Finance Talent Study seeks to identify how CFOs and Controllers are dealing with talent challenges including retention and recruitment. The study also seeks to identify the most challenging functional/skills to recruit, trends in onsite/remote/hybrid work environments, outsourcing trends, along with compensation, benefits and perk offerings. By understanding these factors, CFOs and Controllers and their organizations can develop effective strategies to attract and retain Accounting and Finance talent.

With more and more employees making at least a partial return to the office, the age of a hybrid workforce is upon us. As businesses continue to refine their definitions of hybrid and remote workplaces, they're also rethinking their spend and expense management policies. Although spend and expense management has historically referred to business travel and meals, the current needs of in-office, hybrid, and remote employees have finance leaders accounting for a greater variety of reimbursable expenses than ever before.

With the adoption year in the rearview and audits being completed for many private companies, many companies have an enhanced visibility into their lease portfolio and are reevaluating their approach. With this enhanced visibility and the cross-departmental collaboration required, companies are focusing on implementing sustainable processes to not only tackle identifying new leases and handling more complex “Day 2” items such as modifications, terminations, and impairments, but to identify “value-add” opportunities associated with the enhanced visibility and data now at their fingertips.

Is your financial planning strategy rock solid or on the rocks? Join former Finmark CEO Rami Essaid to learn expert-level best-practices for setting goals, overcoming obstacles, and embracing the latest software tools as you create (or improve) your financial planning strategy.

Ever wonder how invoices get into the BILL platform? Or how to categorize approvals for specific departments? Or how BILL syncs with QuickBooks, Oracle NetSuite, or Sage Intacct? Join us for a technical lunch and learn webinar with a solutions consultant from BILL. Best of all, lunch is on us! Attendees will receive a $25 DoorDash gift card.

ACH. Credit cards. Virtual cards. Real-time payments. And more. The number of B2B payment choices has grown over the years, with each having its own benefits and tradeoffs. How do you go about choosing the best payment strategy for your business?

Discover why fast-growing organizations view automating cash application and enhancing receivables visibility with BlackLine as a no-brainer to optimizing working capital. 

How do today’s finance leaders modernize their FP&A teams? They automate time-intensive manual tasks. And you can do the same. Time is our most valuable resource, but oftentimes, we waste it lost in our spreadsheets rather than spending it on value-added strategic activities. So, what is the advantage of automation in your planning and budgeting process?

This session will discuss the skills finance leaders must possess to help their company succeed in today’s everchanging business environment. Drawing on interviews with top recruiting firms, CFOs and feedback from other business leaders, we will discuss which skills have become so critical.

Managing cash flow in uncertain economic times is a challenging task, but it is an essential part of keeping a business running. This webinar presents strategies and tactics to help small and midsize businesses stay afloat in times of economic volatility.

2023 is presenting unique challenges for businesses, and knowing how fellow small-to-midsize finance leaders are responding to these challenges can help guide your strategies. That’s why BILL partnered with SMB Group to survey 750 finance leaders of small-to-midsize businesses, polling their insights on the economy, workforce, and technology.

Between The Great Resignation and the predicted recession, retaining top, skilled talent is more important than ever. But what are accounts payable (AP) professionals looking for in their career? What is most valuable to them when evaluating job opportunities? In this webinar, AvidXchange consultants are going to recap the survey results and provide tips on how organizations can meet the demands of top AP talent to help grow their business. 

For many small and midsize businesses (SMBs), cash flow is a source of stress. But with thoughtful planning, finance leaders can mitigate anxiety and reinforce calm, even during times of economic turbulence.

Imagine if you were connected directly to your data and could eliminate manual data dumps to begin running real-time reports, all within Excel. Sound too good to be true? Join us for a webinar we’ll demonstrate how you can use Excel that eliminates data dumping. 

Winners of the third annual 2022 Controller of the Year Awards have been selected after a nomination period and judging process that began in December 2022. The 2022 Controller of the Year Awards culminated with 14 Winners, all invited to participate in this virtual "red carpet" event, and be interviewed by host and Controllers Council Board Chair, Lindy Antonelli. Don't miss the "Academy Awards of Corporate Accounting and Finance".

As finance teams remain chronically understaffed and as fewer people study accounting, finance leaders will have to stretch their resources for the foreseeable future. But achieving greater productivity need not require working more hours. During this webinar, a panel of finance leaders will reveal why better management of people begins with better management of processes.

Today’s controllers are looking for ways to take things off their plate and do more with less, especially as the accountant shortage deepens. Fortunately, you can gain significant efficiencies across your teams, systems, and workflows with the right approach and technologies — and Brex VP Chief Accounting Officer, Erik Zhou, and Brex Controller, Kevin Moore, are eager to tell you how.

Are you still running your EPM reports using spreadsheets or generic BI tools? What if you could leverage an EPM reporting tool that provides your finance team with a single source of truth and simple report building capabilities that don’t require dependency on IT? Allow your team to spend time on the most vital activity for driving success: financial analysis.

Many small and midsize businesses today still depend on manual processes to manage payables. Depending on your payables volume, these costs can add up. They include not only the tangible costs, such as check stock, envelopes, and postage, but also the hidden costs of inefficient processes, delays, late fees, and potential fraud. By automating manual tasks, you can significantly reduce these costs and free up your finance team to focus on your company's top priorities. 

Continuous planning has emerged as a dynamic approach that provides leadership with updated information to make timely, strategic decisions. However, while businesses have recognized the need to move to this modern planning model, many lack the tools and infrastructure to begin the transformation. Join us and discover six best practices for continuous planning that are key to a successfully agile business.

During times of unprecedented volatility, finance leaders cannot rely on past experience to guide decisions about the future. Yet for finance leaders who seek greater visibility into what drives their companies' performance, uncertainty can present opportunities to improve and not only measure financial results. During this webinar, finance leaders will share how they overcome barriers to gathering essential information for gauging financial performance. 

Corporate finance is challenging. Between macroeconomic issues, talent shortages, hybrid work environments, increased responsibilities for technology and more, Controllers and CFOs are more challenged than ever before. How? Learn more from a panel of your Controller and CFO peers about top challenges along with corresponding solutions, ideas and how-to advice.

Learn how to design your organization’s quote-to-revenue process for a significantly faster and more efficient book closing and audit in this fireside chat with our presenters who have firsthand experience running the business systems and technology behind Okta’s hypergrowth phase from $100M to $1B.

From post-pandemic to extraordinary economic uncertainty, the business and corporate finance outlook remains in constant flux. Record inflation, high interest rates, volatile stock market and foreign exchange, and for some, recession and supply chain issues. Domestic and global economics will prove challenging to Controllers, CFOs and corporate finance executives. To understand and manage these uncertainties, learn from a renown economist and subject matter expert Dan North, a nationally-recognized economist and Chief Economist, Allianz Trade.

Save Time, Improve Efficiency and Mitigate Risk across Your Financial Close. In this webinar, Trintech will discuss how best-in-class companies are adopting purpose-built automation to modernize their financial close to reduce hours spent on tedious manual processes, improve reporting accuracy and free up time for finance teams to focus on more value-additive work.

You hear it all the time. Financial products are becoming more complex. Diversification has changed. Our approach to investing has changed. What does all this mean? In this course, we will explore how investment theory has changed over time from Markowitz to Factor Investing. Using examples and practical applications, we will talk about how our modern notions of portfolio building have developed throughout history. 

The looming recession presents unique challenges for those working in finance roles. With all the chatter about an uncertain economic future, how are you preparing your organization? In this webinar, you’ll learn how to adapt your processes to do more with less time, effort, and headcount. Whether your organization is still growing or is starting to slow down- finance teams are often asked to adjust and find solutions that fit your business needs.

During times of economic uncertainty, businesses that successfully navigate turbulent times are those that are more proactive and strategic. Now, more than ever, the future of an organization’s fiscal health depends on improved spend transparency, actionable analytics, and smart automation that frees up finance teams to focus on work that moves the needle.

Finance executives learn from each other in this excellent roundtable discussion between TripActions CAO Ram Bartov and Cleveland Guardians SVP, Finance & CFO Rich Dorffer.

A lot of Oracle EBS users are still in the dark about the impact this data migration may have on their reporting, access to current data, and ability to view their legacy data. Understanding these aspects prior to your migration can set your team up for success and ensure as little disruption to monthly reporting as possible. Join us for this educational Webinar investigating the top five questions you’ll want to have answers to before starting your Cloud migration. 

We may not be flying to work in 2023 but there won't be a shortage of innovation that enables Finance and Accounting teams to modernize their accounting operations. As organizations plan for continued supply chain disruptions, talent scarcity, and market uncertainty, accounting leaders are finding ways to innovate, automate, and scale processes to meet organizational demands. Hear from BlackLine’s industry specialists on the top leadership priorities and transformation trends of 2023, including Hyper-Automation, Talent Upskilling, and Decision Intelligence. 

Managing Corporate Finance Talent – Panel Discussion

Meet the CFOO - Interview Series - John Bozin

Eye-opening survey data revealed 70% of middle market companies are revamping their budgets over the next year with a focus on saving costs. Despite widespread cost cutting, 72% still said company growth is a high priority.  As your business braces for a recession and starts to re-evaluate costs, what can the accounts payable (AP) team do to impact the bottom line and prove itself as an asset that powers growth?   

Finance operations teams are the lifeline of the business, they ensure the cash comes in, and that payments are done in a timely manner. However, they don't only have to be a cost center. They can become revenue generating teams. In this webinar we will define the strategic finance leader and show you how to turn your finance operations team into a valuable revenue generating team.

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation.

The State of Automation in Finance: 2nd Edition

Aligning Payables with Procurement: Getting It Right

Controlling Cash Flow, Processes, and People within A/R