Automate Data Preparation to Accelerate the Financial Close

Key Takeaways

• Use best practices for overcoming data management challenges and limitations of desktop-based spreadsheet and database tools
• Explain the benefits of creating an automated, connected, and transparent data preparation process
• Identify how accounting teams use Workiva to support data centralization and aggregation from multiple general ledgers, management of transactions with alternate roll-ups, and ad hoc data exploration