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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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Generative AI is a game changer

Future CFO

Not every finance professional can be sharp enough to detect key highlights and provide analysis for the financial statements. The budget and forecast should reflect the Company’s plans, visions, expectations and educated guesses on the market trends. It took me years to be skilled in financial planning and analysis.

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Preparing Your Finance Organization for the New Era of AI

CFO Leadership

Future-forward finance and accounting organizations were quick to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) years ago to manage mundane, repetitive back-office tasks like data entry and routine financial reporting. AI is a tool and not a replacement for finance professionals.

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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. It was under Vintz’s mentorship that Levine came to appreciate the power of storytelling within financial leadership.

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Finance needs a realistic expectation of AI

Future CFO

While organizations are implementing the technology, finance functions need to know what AI can and can’t do for them to effectively allocate resources and manage their expectations before deployment. To make these tools more accurate in document recognition and data extraction, finance functions need to train them with many sample documents.

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Top Five Questions Clients Are Asking About RevRec and Quote-to-Cash

Bramasol

The Expected Cost Plus Margin method involves forecasting your company's expected costs for satisfying a performance obligation and then adding an appropriate margin for the good or service. Manual Processes: Reliance on manual data entry and spreadsheet-based reconciliations can be time-consuming and error-prone.

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