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SkyStem Publishes eBOOK on Achieving the Perfect Month-End Close
Buyer’s Guide
How to Know You’re Ready to Buy Month-End Close Software?
If you’ve heard of month-end automation, you’re probably familiar with its time-saving benefits, like the ability to eliminate 90% of manual month-end tasks.
Sounds great, right? But how do you know when the time is right to start the process of searching for the right tool? In this checklist, we’ll explore the key indicators that signal your team’s readiness for automated month-end closing tools.
The Essential Guide to Purchasing a Month-End Close Solution.
So you and your team are ready to automate month-end close… It’s finally time to do away with all the spreadsheets, all the Excel checklists, all the emails, pings, and the endless coordination both online and offline to get through the process each month.
By introducing modern tools into this process, you’ll enjoy benefits such as real-time status updates, on-demand reporting, digital sign-offs, system integration, central repository and audit trail. There is a lot to think about when it comes to purchasing a month-end close solution.
How do you take the first step? Just relax. The Buyer’s Guide will make your vendor and software evaluation journey as smooth as possible. It will guide you through all the necessary factors to consider in selecting and adopting a month-end close automation platform so that you’ll look like a pro even though it may be your first time going through the process.
Questions to Ask During Vendor Evaluation
Infographics
Downloadable Content
Top Shelf Reconciliations
Top Shelf Reconciliations is a creatively crafted guide that transforms the complexities of month-end close [...]
The Month-End Roadmap
The Month-End Roadmap: 5 Components for Financial Precision is your go-to guide for transforming the [...]
Football-Themed Playbook for a Successful Month-End Close
Step onto the field of financial victory with our football-themed month-end close playbook. This guide [...]
Heel to Reconcile: A Stylish Close Guide
Step into the world of financial elegance with our high heel-themed month-end close guide. Discover [...]
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Month-End Close
Embark on a financial journey like never before with "The Time Traveler's Guide to Month-End [...]
Explore High-Profile Corporate Fraud Cases
Delve into the world of corporate deception with our eBook, 'Untangling the Web: Unearthing High-Profile [...]
Book of Secrets
In the post pandemic business landscape, the need to increase efficiency and decrease the cost [...]
Happily Ever After
On average, it takes companies 8 working days to close the books each month, and [...]
White Paper: Are We Expecting Too Little?
In an effort to be leaner and more efficient, it is hard to believe that [...]
8 Sins of a Manual Reconciliation
Roll over spreadsheets. Update checklists. Sign and print. If that pretty much sums up your [...]
From Weeks to Days: Mid-Market Close Acceleration Guide
How can the finance function close accounts quicker and get better at forecasting, planning and [...]
I love being able to see on my dashboard what accounts are not started or in progress, and then drill down to see who owns them. It is so much better than our old process where I had to dig around and see whether users submitted a spreadsheet reconciliation.
– Director of Finance
We have transitioned to ART, this new reconciliation tool we are very excited about. The goal is to get efficiency, consistency, stabilization, and better SOX controls.
– Director of Finance
It’s great not having to separately save the reconciliation and that everything is just saved as soon as data is entered.
– Accounting Staff
It’s pretty nice to see a software vendor that is so focused on customer service.
– Accounting Manager
The software is straightforward and easy to use both from an admin and user perspective. Set up and monthly maintenance is simple. What I like the most about using ART is the customer service. The response time is quick no matter what time I reach out to them for help.
Joel, Accounting Manager
The customer support has been excellent; from implementation, training users, and ongoing maintenance, they have been responsive and helped every step of the way. ART is easy to use, has excellent reporting capabilities, and has customizable quality control features. We have been very satisfied with the product!
Karen, Finance Project Manager
Our training period was short. The trainer knew all about the reconciliation and auditing process and left us with detailed instructions. Many of us never needed to call customer support. We had the necessary documentation and were off and running. A lot can be done faster. The email warnings for preparers and reviewers have been really helpful to get us going.
Liz B., VP and Controller
I wish we had partnered with SkyStem much earlier! SkyStem ART has been both a valued time-saver and much-appreciated simplifier for our Accounting team.
Steve, Corporate Controller
The team has truly grasped the system. Since we started using ART, I’ve hardly had to reject any reconciliations. ART makes it easy to log in and review recs from anywhere.
Tim H., Assistant Controller
SkyStem offered much more flexibility. I wanted information at my fingertips to quickly see that all accounts were completed on time and done correctly.
Tony, Controller
SkyStem’s customer service is extremely helpful! I would give them a 10 out of 10 for responsiveness. I love that I can pick up the phone and get a response immediately.
Sean R., Corporate Controller
The ability to attach supporting documentation, create risk thresholds, and save reconciliations onto our own servers has done wonders for our month-end process.
Kim R., Accounting Manager
We can now focus on exactly what needs to be done in real time, rather than checking in with people at random.
Sean, Controller
Thank you for all of your help! You have truly been exceptional in working through our issues thus far.
Jamie, VP/Controller
Thank you Nancy, You are wonderful! Thank you so much for remembering me and sending me the registration for the class. You and your team are AWESOME!
Margarite, Regional Director of Finance
ART has been a great addition to our close process. We’re able to get account recs done earlier, follow through on unknown or identified variances more easily, and get account recs and support to the auditors much better than before. I’ve used the leader in this industry at a past job and feel this software is as good at a much more reasonable price.
David, AM Retail Group
