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The Solution

BlackLine’s Financial Close and Reconciliation unified cloud platform integrates with Microsoft Dynamics AX and enables large companies to close the gaps left in financial close accounting processes and discover errors before it’s too late.

The Results

Global organizations execute a confident and accurate close in less time. Finance & Accounting leaders gain unprecedented insight into close progress, results, and processes.

Modern, Enterprise Accounting

BlackLine provides more advanced, modernized, and nuanced technology to accounting departments beyond financial management for the world’s largest organizations:

  • Account Reconciliations – Verify the correctness of account balances across all balance sheet accounts by comparing data between your GL, sub ledger accounts, and bank statements, investigate discrepancies, and make required corrections before it’s too late.
  • Task Management & Workflows – Ensure compliance, track your close progress, and improve productivity on your team with integrated, cross-product task management, custom workflows and auto-certification.
  • Journal Entry Management – Centralize manual journal entries in a controlled, templated manner, and create, review and approve period-specific and recurring journal entries along with all supporting documentation.
  • Transaction Matching – Stop ticking-and-tying with high volume transaction matching, reconcile accounts daily, and automatically create journal entries from matched and unmatched transactions.
  • Reporting & Analytics – Add to Dynamics AX reporting capabilities and derive actionable intelligence before, during, and after the close, while honing your financial close process with customizable enhanced reports and trend analysis.
Business Impacts

 

  • Get More out of Dynamics AX Financial Management. Add deep accounting capabilities to help provide operational support beyond the GL, AP/AR, and asset management.
  • Gain real-time visibility of all transactions for all accounts at a global, regional or entity level from a single dashboard. Easily view Dynamics AX general ledger and bank statement transactions side by side; access Dynamics AX account details securely in BlackLine.
  • Dramatically increase efficiency with all of your accountants working from the same platform: BlackLine. Manage international complexity with multi-currency and multi-lingual support and intercompany transaction netting.
  • Reduce costs, stay within the cloud and avoid expensive hardware and onsite maintenance with BlackLine’s cloud-based platform. Take advantage of quarterly upgrades and new features and functions immediately, without additional cost—and without waiting for IT to implement.
  • Reduce risk with powerful tools designed to catch discrepancies faster. Improve accuracy and avoid formula and formatting errors common to any manual data export process.