Anyone who has spent time in corporate finance knows that the back office is rife with time-consuming manual tasks like data entry, error checking, and ad-hoc reporting. In fact, recent research shows that nearly half of practitioners feel repetitive work is a massive drain on the organization.

While Procurement and Accounts Payable work hard to facilitate and manage a business’s relationship with its vendors and contractors, they face many mundane tasks, including invoice accruals , vendor interactions, and tax form collections .

With thousands of hours wasted on these tasks, vendor management is long overdue for an upgrade.

By leveraging…

Finance professionals know that cash is the lifeblood of successful companies, and knowing where and when cash is coming into the business is of utmost importance.

However, while forecasting cash flow is imperative for high-performing finance teams, many teams are instead reviewing past metrics and performance.

In fact, one budgeting and planning luminary has said that the finance department sits at the back of the boat, looking at the wake and making observations of events that have already occurred. Instead, he says the corporate finance department needs to move to the front of the boat for success.

“Finance has got…

Now is the time to debunk the old age misconceptions around the corporate finance function.

In truth, people who work in corporate finance function aren’t boring people, they are the ones who are excited about what some may consider boring “stuff.” Why is this? Because boring “stuff” is the bedrock for any company to be successful. It’s the lifeline of the business.

Take one financial executive based in Atlanta. He lives and breathes finance, but his passion is triathlons. He spent day and night working on financial planning, manually inputting and reviewing financial data, checking audits, monitoring vendors. While he…

The corporate finance back office is the backbone of any business, and yet, it’s been slow to adapt to changing technology and innovation.

It’s been a challenge to apply new technology to these departments. That’s a part of the reason for the relative sluggishness of digital transformation in accounting and finance. Fortunately, the tide is turning. More and more teams are looking to implement new finance automation and accounting automation technology to streamline and support these teams’ tasks.Take the AR department- accounts receivable automation means everyday tasks that took up most of a collector’s day can be reduced to a…

By Adina Simu, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, Auditoria.AI

Right now, “Preserve Cash” is the call to action for all companies. But when you look closer, there’s something way bigger at work.

“COVID-19 has created an imperative for companies to reconfigure their operations, and an opportunity to transform them.[…] After switching to daily planning cycles and gaining real-time visibility of their operations, managers don’t want to return to the old cadence of monthly planning and metrics that lag behind the situation on the ground.”

On the other hand, the technology for solving these problems is far from trivial. A recent…

By Nick Ezzo, Vice President of Marketing, Auditoria.AI

A conversation with R “Ray” Wang of Constellation Research.

Earlier this year, I sat down with R “Ray” Wang, CEO and Founder of Constellation Research, to get a glimpse of what the future holds for the finance back office.

If you’ve ever been in a room with Ray, you know that he is an engaging and energetic guy. A self-described “futurist,” Ray gets extremely excited to share his vision of the future. It’s almost like he’s been to the future and he came back to tell us what it’s like.

▶️ We also created a video of our interview, which you…

For a long time, the corporate back office was inundated with paper processes, manual data entry and calculations, and more.

Enter ERP and cloud accounting software.

These technologies presented numerous opportunities for the corporate finance department. SaaS-based software meant that spreadsheets were no longer the “be-all-end-all” of the finance team (although spreadsheets are still incredibly useful). While this software has been incredibly helpful, technology has transformed all aspects of business, and these teams now need to be armed with more than just basic software and spreadsheets to be successful.

2020 Automation in ERP and the Finance Back Office Survey

While financial automation has been around for years, many corporate finance…

Technology is advancing so rapidly that it can take entire industries years to completely overhaul their outdated internal operation to implement new digital practices. Though finance departments have adopted digitization, customer-facing processes have been digitalized far more quickly than similar back-office updates. The result is a fast-paced game of catch up to update internal operations. Finance is facing its digital finance transformation reckoning.

The major challenge of enacting a digital transformation in finance departments is the money aspect. It’s crucial to play it safe when dealing with financial information, regardless of the context. …