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Rethinking Reconciliation Amid Deeper Corporate Finance Disruption

PYMNTS

The reconciliation process is traditionally viewed in the context of financial transactions: Does the value of a company payment match with what the company was billed, and what the company had purchased? Yet the reality is that the reconciliation process is rarely ever straightforward. Beyond Data Matching. Payment Rail Confusion.

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Finance Teams: Stop Wasting Time on Manual Account Reconciliation & Automate

The Finance Weekly

Account reconciliation is the matching and validating of balances in the general ledger (GL) to internal and external sources or other independent calculations to accurately close month-ends and year-ends. Defining Account Reconciliation The basic steps involved in reconciliation transactions include the following: 1.

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996: Cultivating a CFO’s Toolkit | Aaron Levine, CFO, Prophix

CFO Thought Leader

From his early days in auditing at PwC to his current role as CFO at Prophix, Aaron Levine has had a career that has closely tracked the evolving nature of the financial leadership role. Although we’re really focused on North America, we also have business units in EMEA, APAC, and Latin America.

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What Are The 4 Components of Financial Health?

CFO Share

These components aren’t just indicators of present stability—they forecast future success. Key takeaways for business leaders include: Maintaining an emergency fund for unforeseen expenses Timely collection of accounts receivable Monitoring inventory and purchasing vs. forecasts to avoid overstocking.

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Webinar: Automate planning processes to react faster and adapt to uncertainty

Future CFO

Excel remains the de facto standard for planning – users can quickly, cost-effectively and independently conduct budgeting, and forecasting. By automating important but frequent planning processes, you can react faster and work out fast and accurate budgets & forecast in times of uncertainty.

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What is Quality of Earnings?

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What is the difference between a quality of earnings report and an audit? Audited financial statements focus on compliance with GAAP accounting standards, whereas Quality of Earnings reports focus on the company’s earnings history and potential. Reviews of account reconciliations, account aging, and composition.

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Preparing Your Finance Organization for the New Era of AI

CFO Leadership

Many have since advanced to intelligent process automation (IPA) — RPA amplified with artificial intelligence (AI) — to streamline and improve more complex work, from tax and compliance reporting to financial statement reconciliation. over at least the next decade.