SAP Accounting Automation by BlackLine
What is SAP Accounting Automation by BlackLine?
SAP Accounting Automation by Blackline is a solution extension that helps finance professionals with record-to-report processing by turning fragmented close activities into a single connected process.
The real-time integration of SAP Accounting Automation with SAP Advanced Financial Closing solutions helps you:
Connect process templates that cover various tasks and structured accounting work.
Manage closing tasks from a single source.
Gain a connected, comprehensive view of accounting activities across systems.
Introducing SAP Accounting Automation by BlackLine
Join experts from SAP and BlackLine on March 12 to learn how you can bring comprehensive line of sight visibility and automation to your financial close.
Key benefits
Streamline fragmented close activities
Coordinate and manage sub-tasks, standardize and automate accounting activities, and enable real-time comprehensive status across the enterprise close.
Standardize and automate close activities
Define standardized, activity-level subtasks with process templates based on best practices from real-world experiences of SAP and BlackLine customers.
Coordinate activities without losing context
Gain unified closing oversight in SAP Advanced Financial Closing by importing process templates and their activity status directly from SAP Accounting Automation.
Extend automation across the enterprise close
Combine activity types into comprehensive processes to automate recurring work, reduce spreadsheet dependence, and connect upstream and downstream steps.
See the close unfold in real time
Gain better visibility and coordinate more effectively through real-time reflections of accounting activities directly in Advanced Financial Closing.
Improve efficiency and create capacity
Reduce rework, free up time, and make fast decisions by standardizing and automating reconciliations, matching, and journals.
Key features
Template-based process modeling
Embed execution in the close process by importing templates from Accounting Automation directly into Advanced Financial Closing. Process templates capture best practices and define various activity-level sub-tasks including imports, standard matching, and variance checks.
Single connected enterprise close plan in one view
Reduce manual handoffs, consolidate fragmented closing tasks, and avoid delayed updates by embedding execution into a single connected close plan that displays activities across systems in Advanced Financial Closing.
Real-time status synchronization across systems
Give teams a real-time view of progress, completions, and errors within the close plan. Status and outcome updates flow instantly from Accounting Automation directly into Advanced Financial Closing.
Automated accounting task execution
Automate tasks and structured accounting work such as advanced transaction matching, imports, automatic journals, and reconciliations. Advanced Financial Closing schedules activities and tracks dependencies from a single source.
Management of file-based import routines
Use the connectivity center to organize and manage frequently used file-based data import routines.
The gold standard for record to report
Learn about the key features and benefits of the new SAP Accounting Automation by BlackLine solution in our Financial Management blog.
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Additional solutions
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