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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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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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Capitalising on the Fintech apps in APAC

Future CFO

The demand for mobile wallets, online banking services, and the increasing adoption of digital technologies has led to the expansion of the financial applications market in Asia/Pacific. Automating the reporting process can help identify errors and potential frauds, improve forecasting and budgeting, understand sales trends, and so on.

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New Year’s Resolution: The Clearing House Urges Banks To Become 24/7 Operations

PYMNTS

Even so, there’s still plenty of work to be done to raise awareness about how sending or receiving RTP transactions can improve the banking client experience. One thing is customer service, but the other is liquidity management or cash flow forecasting, and that's new to a lot of organizations.”.

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EACT SURVEY 2021

Simply Treasury

Major priorities over the next one to two years: We are not surprised that Cash-Flow Forecasting comes out on top when the COVID crisis has been hitting us for the past year. The uncertainties surrounding the economy explain the difficulty in producing reliable and accurate forecasts. François Masquelier, Vice Chairman EACT.

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SMBs Remain Hot Spot For Open Banking Business Models

PYMNTS

As the open banking business model permeates into the B2B financial services market, FinTechs and traditional financial institutions continue to find new use cases for API integrations and connectivity to elevate the business-user experience. Eika Group, EedenBull Team for Banks. Cash flow remains the No. Cash flow remains the No.

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CFOs – Masters of people, tech and finance skills

CFO Talks

Increased automation of financial processes such as accounts payable, bank reconciliations, financial closes and reporting is freeing up the CFO’s time, enabling them to focus their energies on analysis and storytelling rather than crunching numbers.

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