SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine
Transforming your financial close with simpler, more efficient processes
Standardize and streamline your financial close
- Cloud deployment
- Simplified, coordinated end-to-end closings
- Foundation for decision-making and compliance
- Increased IT flexibility and scalability
Consolidation and close
Explore features available in the financial closing add-on for financial consolidation, advanced financial closing, and account substantiation.
Key benefits
Optimizing account reconciliation
Achieve hyper-efficient reconciliations through standardized and configurable templates, rules-based automation, and predefined workflows.
Maximizing efficiency of your financial close
Enhance key steps throughout the close cycle with an application that complements and extends your finance solution investments from SAP.
Gaining new insights in real time
Perform variance analysis of automated balance fluctuations between balance sheet and income statement accounts over different periods.
Key features
Account reconciliation and tasks
Leverage templates, rules-based prioritization, automated reconciliation, and certification
Use predefined workflows for checks and balances
Sign off and certify digitally, eliminating the use of Excel files and e-mails
Give business users access to real-time dashboards to track processes
Journal entry
Centralize and streamline the manual journal-entry process
Prepare journal entries, perform validations and dependent validations, and attach supporting documents
Provide workflows to streamline posting processes
Create extracts to be used by your ERP application from SAP
Transaction matching
Support reconciliations of high volumes of data across multiple data sources
Provide suggested matches and flag exceptions based on preconfigured rules
Support a range of SAP software data, from general ledger balances and subledgers to transactional data and currency rates
Financial review
Discover accounting discrepancies through automated, rules-driven workflows
Track balance fluctuation between balance-sheet and income-statement accounts
Use flexible variance rules and balance comparisons
Centralize analysis, reporting, controls, and workflows for compliance monitoring and support
Track and strengthen conformity with regulations
Pricing
Discover how SAP runs BlackLine
Optimizing accounting processes end to end
Discover how SAP streamlined the management of massive transaction volumes across its leased assets portfolio. By automating and simplifying some of its most labor-intensive processes, the company increased efficiency, enhanced visibility, and reduced risk.
Featured resources
INFOGRAPHIC
Digital finance transformation with SAP and BlackLine
Learn how to future-ready your financial operations with greater accuracy, efficiency, and intelligence by extending your SAP ERP software with BlackLine solutions.
SOLUTION DEMO
Better together: SAP and Blackline
Learn how SAP and BlackLine deliver the gold standard for record to report, achieving significant results for the office of the CFO.
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Additional solutions
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