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Financial Close Management
Financial Close Management
Overview
Overview

FINANCIAL CLOSE MANAGEMENT

Close faster with complete and accurate results.

Empower Accounting to manage and control the end-to-end financial close process
by automating accounting workflows, providing a centralized and secure workspace
to perform period-end accounting activities, and streamlining financial
reporting.

Account Reconciliations
Account Reconciliations

ACCOUNT RECONCILIATIONS

Standardize, control, and streamline reconciliations.

Increase accuracy and efficiency across your account reconciliation process and
produce timely and accurate financial statements. Drive accuracy in the
financial close by providing a streamlined method to substantiate your balance
sheet.

Task Management
Task Management

TASK MANAGEMENT

Drive visibility, accountability, and control across every accounting checklist.

Standardize, accelerate, and centrally manage accounting processes – from
month-end close tasks to PBC checklists – with hierarchical task lists,
role-based workflows, and real-time dashboards.

Transaction Matching
Transaction Matching

TRANSACTION MATCHING

Match, analyze, and reconcile millions of transactions in minutes.

Streamline and automate detail-heavy reconciliations, such as bank
reconciliations, credit card matching, intercompany reconciliations, and
invoice-to-PO matching all in one centralized workspace.

Journal Entry
Journal Entry

JOURNAL ENTRY

Centralize, manage, and automate journal entries.

Create, review, and approve journals, then electronically certify, post them to
and store them with all supporting documentation. Automatically create,
populate, and post journals to your ERP based on your rules.

Compliance
Compliance

COMPLIANCE

Elevate control in the cloud.

Unify all compliance documentation, projects, and stakeholders in one globally
accessible, cloud platform to maximize visibility. Link controls to related
risks, narratives, and projects, and ensure version control.

Variance Analysis
Variance Analysis

VARIANCE ANALYSIS

Continuously monitor for risk with automated fluctuation analysis.

Calculate and identify account balance and activity fluctuations automatically
to continuously monitor for risk, ensure the effective and timely execution of
critical management review controls, and support agile decision-making.

Smart Close for SAP
Smart Close for SAP

SMART CLOSE FOR SAP

Simplify, standardize, and automate your financial close in SAP.

Streamline and automate activities in SAP with task scheduling and execution,
activity monitoring, and outcome verification.

Accounts Receivable Automation
Accounts Receivable Automation
Overview
Overview

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AUTOMATION

Maximize working capital and release cash from your balance sheet.

Maximize working capital with the only unified platform for collecting cash,
providing credit, and understanding cash flow. Transform your accounts
receivable processes with intelligent AR automation that delivers value across
your business.

Cash Application
Cash Application

CASH APPLICATION

Apply customer payments to invoices automatically.

Transform your order-to-cash cycle and speed up your cash application process by
instantly matching and accurately applying customer payments to customer
invoices in your ERP.

Credit & Risk Management
Credit & Risk Management

CREDIT & RISK MANAGEMENT

Create and operate risk polices with dynamic insights.

Understand customer data and performance behaviors to minimize the risk of bad
debt and the impact of late payments. Monitor changes in real time to identify
and analyze customer risk signals.

Collections Management
Collections Management

COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT

Release cash from customers and reduce DSO.

Improve the prioritization of customer calls, reduce days sales outstanding, and
watch productivity rise with more dynamic, accurate, and smarter collection
management processes.

Disputes & Deductions
Disputes & Deductions

DISPUTES & DEDUCTIONS

Resolve customer disputes promptly to collect debt.

Accelerate dispute resolution with automated workflows and maintain customer
relationships with operational reporting. Unlock full control and visibility of
disputes and provide better insight into how they impact KPIs, such as DSO and
aged debt provisions.

Team & Task Management
Team & Task Management

TEAM & TASK MANAGEMENT

Maximize your time with data-driven prioritization.

Make the most of your team’s time by automating accounts receivables tasks and
using data to drive priority, action, and results. Monitor and analyze user
performance, ensuring key actions quickly.

AR Intelligence
AR Intelligence

AR INTELLIGENCE

Turn payment data into actionable, real-time intelligence.

Automatically process and analyze critical information such as sales and payment
performance data, customer payment trends, and DSO to better manage risk and
develop strategies to improve operational performance.

Intercompany Financial Management
Intercompany Financial Management
Overview
Overview

INTERCOMPANY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Unlock growth capacity with tax-effective intercompany operations.

Centralize, streamline, and automate end-to-end intercompany operations with
global billing, payment, and automated reconciliation capabilities that provide
speed and accuracy. Ignite staff efficiency and advance your business to more
profitable growth.

BlackLine Intercompany
BlackLine Intercompany

BLACKLINE INTERCOMPANY

Centralize and streamline end-to-end intercompany operations.

Structure and automate intercompany transactions to maximize operational
efficiency while improving deductibility and reducing tax leakage.

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Midsize Organizations
Midsize Organizations

BLACKLINE FOR MIDSIZE ORGANIZATIONS

Get set up quickly for a streamlined and automated close.

The path from traditional to modern accounting is different for every
organization. BlackLine’s Modern Accounting Playbook delivers a proven-practices
approach to help you identify and prioritize your organization’s critical
accounting gaps and map out an achievable path to success.

Large Enterprises
Large Enterprises

BLACKLINE FOR LARGE ENTERPRISES

Save time and cost, decrease risk, and elevate the organization.

BlackLine’s foundation for modern accounting creates a streamlined and automated
close. We’re dedicated to delivering the most value in the shortest amount of
time, equipping you to not only control close chaos, but also foster F&A
excellence.

By Industry
By Industry
Banking & Financial Services
Banking & Financial Services

BLACKLINE FOR BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Invest in your future by unifying and automating accounting work.

To sustain timely performance of daily activities, banking and financial
services organizations are turning to modern accounting and finance practices.
It’s no longer a matter of whether or not to digitally transform. It’s a matter
of when and how.

Consumer Products & Services
Consumer Products & Services

BLACKLINE FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Adapt to changing consumer preferences with agile accounting.

To mitigate financial statement risk and increase operational effectiveness,
consumer goods organizations are turning to modern accounting and leading best
practices. Simply sticking with ‘the way it’s always been done’ is a thing of
the past.

Energy & Raw Materials
Energy & Raw Materials

BLACKLINE FOR ENERGY & RAW MATERIALS

Energize your accounting team by creating capacity with automation.

While you are innovating to produce safe, reliable, and sustainable products and
services, our solutions help accounting teams save time, reduce risk, and create
capacity to support your organization's strategic objectives.

Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare & Life Sciences

BLACKLINE FOR HEALTHCARE & LIFE SCIENCES

Align healthcare accounting teams to revenue-driving activities.

Working capital, cash flows, collections opportunities, and other critical
metrics depend on timely and accurate processes. Ensure services revenue has
been accurately recorded and related payments are reflected properly on the
balance sheet.

Manufacturing
Manufacturing

BLACKLINE FOR MANUFACTURING

Unlock capacity and strengthen resilience by automating accounting.

To respond and lead amid supply chain challenges demands on accounting teams in
manufacturing companies are higher than ever. Guide your business with agility
by standardizing processes, automating routine work, and increasing visibility.

Retail
Retail

BLACKLINE FOR RETAIL

Tie out millions of transactions automatically.

Retailers are recalibrating their strategies and investing in innovative
business models to drive transformation quickly, profitably, and at scale. Save
time, reduce risk, and create capacity to support your organization's strategic
objectives.

Technology, Media & Communications
Technology, Media & Communications

BLACKLINE FOR TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS

Transform the way you work.

You've transformed the way we experience the world. It's time to embrace modern
accounting technology to save time, reduce risk, and create capacity to focus
your time on what matters most.

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By ERP
By ERP
SAP
SAP

SAP SOLUTIONS BY BLACKLINE

BlackLine is part of your SAP financial mission control center. Our solutions
complement SAP software as part of an end-to-end offering for Finance &
Accounting. BlackLine solutions address the traditional manual processes that
are performed by accountants outside the ERP, often in spreadsheets.

Oracle
Oracle

COMPANIES RUNNING ON ORACLE CLOSE FASTER WITH BLACKLINE

Global brands and the fastest growing companies run Oracle and choose BlackLine
to accelerate digital transformation. BlackLine delivers comprehensive solutions
that unify accounting and finance operations across your Oracle landscape.

Oracle NetSuite
Oracle NetSuite

BLACKLINE IS BUILT FOR NETSUITE

Gain global visibility and insight into accounting processes while reducing
risk, increasing productivity, and ensuring accuracy. Close the gaps left in
critical finance and accounting processes with minimal IT support.

Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics

AGILE SOLUTIONS FOR DYNAMIC ORGANIZATIONS

Adapt and innovate with a hyperconnected Accounting function and give everyone
the insights and freedom to thrive by connecting your data, processes, and teams
with intelligent automation solutions for accounting needs.

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Customers
Customers

CUSTOMER SUCCESS

Success Stories
Success Stories

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

In good company.

More than 3,900 companies of all sizes, across all industries, trust BlackLine
to help them modernize their financial close, accounts receivable, and
intercompany accounting processes.

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Collaborative Accounting Experience
Collaborative Accounting Experience

COLLABORATIVE ACCOUNTING EXPERIENCE

Powerful technology is only part of the story.

To truly transform your finance and accounting processes, you need the guidance
of a trusted partner. Our proven approach has helped thousands of customers
identify and address bottlenecks to free up capacity, strengthen controls, and
deliver measurable results.

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Success Story

"OUR CONSULTANT FROM BLACKLINE SUPPORTED US ALL THE WAY."

Modern Accounting Playbook
Modern Accounting Playbook

MODERN ACCOUNTING PLAYBOOK

Your playbook for rapid success and proven value.

Using our unique experience and expertise, we will help you identify your most
pressing accounting challenges and quickly deploy our software by providing a
clear vision and predictable, confident delivery and implementation.

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TRANSFORM WITH A CLEAR VISION AND PREDICTABLE APPROACH

Training & Education
Training & Education

TRAINING & EDUCATION

Rich learning resources for every stage of your journey.

One of the critical success drivers for any software deployment is user adoption
through effective training. We created BlackLine U to ensure successful
onboarding and continuous education, useful for both new customers and those
expanding globally.

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ENSURE SUCCESS WITH UNIVERSAL USER ADOPTION.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

Global Support
Global Support

GLOBAL SUPPORT

Industry-leading customer support anytime, anywhere

BlackLine provides global product support across geographies, languages, and
time zones, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We are here for you
with industry-leading support whenever and wherever you need it.

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Support Portal

ACCESS OUR SUPPORT TEAM 24X7X365.

Developer Portal
Developer Portal

DEVELOPER PORTAL

Integrate your accounting operations with open APIs.

Our API-first development strategy gives you the keys to integrate your finance
tech stack - from one ERP to one hundred - and create seamless data flows in and
out of BlackLine.

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FEATURED CONTENT
Guide

EXPLORE OUR APIS TO MAXIMUM INTEGRATION.

BlackLine Community
BlackLine Community

BLACKLINE COMMUNITY

Join an exclusive community of more than 300,000 accounting professionals.

BlackLine users around the world get access to key resources to develop
expertise, interact with peers in F&A to exchange ideas and leading practices,
and share their feedback to guide future product development.

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Community Portal

LOGIN TO LEARN, COLLABORATE, AND GET THE HELP YOU NEED.

Resources
Resources
Events
Events

EVENTS

Connect with peers across Finance & Accounting.

Whether new to BlackLine or a longtime customer, we curate events to guide you
along every step of your modern accounting journey.

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BEYONDTHEBLACK 2022: IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL

Upcoming Webinars
Upcoming Webinars

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Hear from F&A thought leaders and customers like you.

Explore our schedule of upcoming webinars to find inspiration, including
industry experts, strategic alliance partners, and boundary-pushing customers.
And, earn CPE credits while you're at it.

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On-Demand Webinars
On-Demand Webinars

ON-DEMAND WEBINARS

Catch up on the latest finance transformation guidance.

Check out our most recent webinars dedicated to modern accounting. If you
recently attended webinar you loved, find it here and share the link with your
colleagues.

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White Papers
White Papers

WHITE PAPERS

Dive into digital finance transformation.

Explore the future of accounting over a cup of coffee with our curated
collection of white papers and ebooks written to help you consider how you will
transform your people, process, and technology.

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FEATURED CONTENT
White Paper

12 KEYS TO FINANCIAL OPERATIONS EXCELLENCE

Blog
Blog

BLOG

Stay on top of the latest accounting trends.

BlackLine Magazine provides daily updates on everything from companies that have
transformed F&A to new regulations that are coming to disrupt your day, week,
and month. Check back often for the latest commentary and guidance.

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FEATURED CONTENT
Blog

EXPLORE THE LATEST IN F&A INNOVATIONS.

Accounting Glossary
Accounting Glossary

ACCOUNTING GLOSSARY

Brush up on key accounting terms.

Whether you're new to F&A or an experienced professional, sometimes you need a
refresher on common finance and accounting terms and their definitions.
BlackLine's glossary provides descriptions for industry words and phrases,
answers to frequently asked questions, and links to additional resources.

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Guide

YOUR GUIDE TO KEY F&A TERMS AND DEFINITIONS.

Global Support
Global Support

GLOBAL SUPPORT

We are here for your mission-critical accounting operations.

BlackLine provides global product support across geographies, languages, and
time zones, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We are here for you
with industry-leading support whenever and wherever you need it.

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Support Portal

ACCESS OUR SUPPORT TEAM 24X7X365.

About
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Company
About BlackLine
About BlackLine

ABOUT BLACKLINE

Since our founding in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud
software that automates and controls critical accounting processes.

Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting
processes are not sustainable. We help them move to modern accounting by
unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving
accountability through visibility.

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Leadership
Leadership

LEADERSHIP

BlackLine's leadership team is built on experience and expertise. Every
executive is committed to ensuring transformational success for every customer.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

At BlackLine, we live by these tenets and always put people first. We are
committed to fostering an environment where differences are valued and practices
are equitable.

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Environmental, Social & Governance
Environmental, Social & Governance

ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE

BlackLine is committed to doing our part to create a more sustainable and
equitable world, from setting high environmental standards in all BlackLine
workplaces to supporting employee health and wellbeing, building strong
relationships with suppliers from underrepresented communities, protecting
customers’ data security and privacy and giving back to the community. 

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In the News
In the News

IN THE NEWS

Explore original-content media coverage, commentary and analysis of BlackLine at
top-tier business, trade, local and vertical media outlets, as well as
contributed articles written by BlackLine experts and placed with leading media
organizations.

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Press Releases
Press Releases

PRESS RELEASES

Stay up to date on the latest corporate and high-level product developments at
BlackLine. Here you will find a one-stop resource listing recent and historical
news items, including announcement of new clients/partners, awards, new
offices/facilities, personnel appointments/ changes, major software
enhancements, executive speeches and upcoming events.

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Investors
Investors

INVESTORS

BlackLine is a high-growth, SaaS business that is transforming and modernizing
the way finance and accounting departments operate. Our cloud software automates
critical finance and accounting processes. We empower companies of all sizes
across all industries to improve the integrity of their financial reporting,
achieve efficiencies and enhance real-time visibility into their operations.

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Awards & Recognition
Awards & Recognition

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

In addition to accolades for the quality, performance and benefits of our
software, BlackLine has been the recipient of many industry awards recognizing
the fast growth of the company, outstanding achievements of members of the
management team and exceptional customer service.

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Careers
Careers

TAKE THE NEXT STEP IN YOUR CAREER.

Wondering what it's like to work at BlackLine? Don't take our word for it. We've
been voted Best Place to Work by Inc. Magazine four years in a row. Built in LA
ranks us in their top 20 best places to work in LA. Better still? We have
in-office and remote-work openings all over the world.

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BE A LEADER. JOIN THE LEADER.

Partners
Partners
Consulting Alliances
Consulting Alliances

CONSULTING ALLIANCES

Delivering Succesful Digital Transformations

Global and regional advisory and consulting firms bring deep finance domain
expertise, process transformation leadership, and shared passion for customer
value creation to our joint customers. Our consulting partners help guide large
enterprise and midsize organizations undergoing digital transformation by
maximizing and accelerating value from BlackLine’s solutions.

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Solution Provider Partners
Solution Provider Partners

SOLUTION PROVIDER PARTNERS

Guiding Customers to Long-Term Success

BlackLine’s Solution Providers are experienced business software resellers who
know and understand the finance and accounting function and the associated
challenges that organizations face. They ensure our customers’ success with
BlackLine from the initial solution validation process through deployments and
long-term customer care and long-term success.

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Software & Cloud Partners
Software & Cloud Partners

SOFTWARE & CLOUD PARTNERS

Integrate Your Finance Tech Stack

BlackLine and our ecosystem of software and cloud partners work together to
transform our joint customers’ finance and accounting processes. Together, we
provide innovative solutions that help F&A teams achieve shorter close cycles
and better controls, enabling them to drive better decision-making across the
company.

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Business Process Outsourcers
Business Process Outsourcers

BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCERS

Driving Automation with Your Outsourcing Provider

BlackLine partners with top global Business Process Outsourcers and equips them
with solutions to better serve their clients and achieve market-leading
automation, efficiencies, and risk control. By outsourcing, businesses can
achieve stronger compliance, gain a deeper level of industry knowledge, and grow
without unnecessary costs.

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ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AUTOMATION

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 * Collections Management
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