A Model for Advancing Financial Reporting Processes Improve your month-end reporting process. This maturity model can help your team plan your journey from a viable financial close to a more connected, continuous close.

Financial Reporting Innovation: Are You a Netflix or Blockbuster? There's one lesson from the last decade that should strike fear into anyone who thinks maintaining the status quo is a safe strategy. Is your reporting a Netflix or a Blockbuster?

Why Trust and Transparency in Local Government Can't Wait With trust eroding in today's climate, transparency around state and government operations never hurts. Yet how much extra effort does that require? Surprisingly little, with the right technology and standardized data.

3 Ways Visionaries are Changing Government Finance Forever Visionaries in state and local government are finding new ways to help elected leaders make data-driven decisions. See how connected data is powering real-time dashboards and financial reports that build confidence and transparency in the public sector.

What’s New, What’s Next in Federal Financial Management At a conference of federal financial managers, a hot topic was taking a more customer-centric approach to what agencies do every day, from presenting data in more interactive ways to providing answers at any hour.

Connecting Anaplan and Workiva to Transform FP&A Connecting Anaplan and Workiva to Transform FP&A

How to Successfully Implement Change in Your Financial Close Change can be scary. Make it more palatable for your team by developing an action plan, testing new procedures, and fine-tuning based on their feedback.

Finding Tools to Improve the Month-End Close Process Once you have created a financial close process flowchart, you can use it to identify risks, opportunities, and the right technology for improving your process. Here is a checklist for evaluating which tools are right for your team.

Spotting Opportunities to Improve the Financial Close Process Once you have built a flowchart of your month-end reporting process, the next step to simplifying it is to identify risks at each step. That will reveal improvement opportunities, some of which seem to come up over and over.

A Quick Overview of the 2019 Pulse of Internal Audit Report The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) recently released their 2019 North American Pulse of Internal Audit report. Check out this quick summary, and learn more about what trends are expected to impact the industry in years to come.