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Moving Financial Consolidation and Reporting to the Cloud – Webinar Recap

Planful

If the latter is the case, Planful recently held a webinar focused on how you can automate and accelerate the financial close, consolidation, and reporting process and free up more Finance time for value-added analysis. You’re preparing for an IPO or external audit, which requires having rock-solid financial statements.

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How to Reduce the Pain of Board Reporting

Planful

According to a recent benchmark survey by APQC, the bottom performers take 12 days or more to close the books and report their results to management. In terms of contributors, this can include staff from Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Tax, and Audit, as well as the CFO, reviewing results and creating and editing the textual commentary.