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BlackLine: Modern Accounting with Blackline

Marc Huffman

CEO


“We strive to build long-lasting relationships with our customers, helping them at every step along their digital finance transformation journeys. By automating and modernizing their finance and accounting operations with BlackLine, they have more capacity to focus on their most pressing issues”.

Accounts outstanding, transactions to cash, and financial planning are some of the most crucial services in an organization’s accounting. Collecting cash, giving loans, analyzing cash flow, and maximizing working capital, whatever the process or department is called in a company, are crucial to its success. By eliminating manual, error-prone procedures and delivering essential decision intelligence, BlackLine’s unified AR solutions improve organizational performance and capacity. Companies rely on BlackLine to close deals quickly and accurately. Since its inception in 2001, BlackLine has grown to become a prominent provider of cloud software that automates and manages financial closing and accounting operations. Traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable, so businesses turn to BlackLine for help. They assist clients in making the transition to contemporary accounting by integrating their data and procedures, automating repetitive tasks, and increasing responsibility via transparency.

Since opening its doors in 2001, BlackLine has become one of the leading providers of cloud software that automates and controls financial close and accounting processes.Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable.

BlackLine’s accounts receivable automation solutions help businesses improve their order-to-cash operations and operational effectiveness. Organizations may eliminate manual procedures and reveal key knowledge by using intelligent automation and the latest reporting and analytics technologies, allowing their staff to focus on delivering greater value for the business. The BlackLine Balance Sheet Integrity solution standardizes and automates reconciliations—from general ledger to balance sheet account, bank, credit card, cash, and inventory reconciliations—streamlining and controlling close cycles to reduce the risk of material errors and misstatements, and allowing accounting and finance teams to focus on value-added activities and delivering confidence and trust in their organization’s financial stamina. Balance Sheet Integrity is a full solution that supports both IFRS and GAAP standards. It helps firms move from manual, error-prone, and spreadsheet-driven chores to standardized, simplified internal procedures that give better insight into accounting performance.

With an array of financial services, BlackLine Close Process Management delivers best-practice solutions to accounting and finance departments to assist in managing and controlling the “final mile of finance.” Organizations can eliminate labor-intensive, non-value-adding activities and streamline decentralized and disjointed workflows that lengthen cycle times, increase the risk of control failure, and jeopardize the integrity of financial statements by standardizing and embedding controls in reconciliation and period-end close processes. To supply clear, trustworthy information across the firm, BlackLine becomes the primary command center for performing and managing all accounting and financial processes. Close Process Management is cloud-based, so it’s intended to work with the present and future ERP and IT investments as the dynamic company grows. Through an integrated intercompany accounting process, an organization can eliminate the main bottleneck and risk to a rapid, accurate global financial closure. The BlackLine Intercompany Hub enables business units and organizational entities to authorize, evaluate, and reconcile intercompany transactions and balances in real-time across currencies and regions. “We strive to build long-lasting relationships with our customers, helping them at every step along their digital finance transformation journeys. By automating and modernizing their finance and accounting operations with BlackLine, they have more capacity to focus on their most pressing issues, “says BlackLine CEO, Marc Huffman. 

For more than 200 years, industry behemoth British Gas has been looking after others. With a total client base of 28 million, they provide energy and other services to almost 11 million residential residences. BlackLine was a crucial aspect of the company’s strategy when it resolved to take better care of itself by undergoing a company-wide financial process transformation. In the future, British Gas intends to offer more BlackLine options. The Intercompany Hub, which will assist the company’s multiple business divisions coordinate reconciliations, and BlackLine Insights, an analytics function that will help British Gas enhance its financial operations, are two of them.

BlackLine was formed on the principles of serving our employees and customers. They are dedicated to ensuring that BlackLine delivers a safe, inclusive, accepting, and supportive environment for everyone. Today, BlackLine stand out from the crowd by being accountable to the customers, employees, and communities that the team serve. BlackLine’s team serve its customers by building long-lasting relationships focused on solving their challenges. The team also ensure to serve its employees by fostering a creative, thoughtful, and collaborative workplace whilehelping the community by investing its time and resources to global charitable giving and service initiatives.