Improve your Month-end close

This session was the eighth in a ten-part series throughout 2022 hosted by Chris Tredwell. This series addresses the biggest challenges highlighted within GrowCFO’s 2021 Finance Systems survey.

Coming up in the months ahead…

1. Is now the right time to change?  (8/3/2022)
2. Why Strong Foundations are key to your department’s success  (5/4/2022)
3. What is True Cloud Accounting?  (10/5/2022)
4. Ensure you are able to scale alongside your growth ambitions (14/6/2022)
5. Automation in Finance (12/7/2022)
6. The value of Integration (9/8/2022)
7. What should I expect from Reporting (13/9/2022)
8. Improve your Month-end close (11/10/2022)
9. Get it right – Do’s and Don’ts / Procurement Checklist (8/11/2022)
10. How to review the software market (13/12/2022)

Chris is GrowCFO’s technology specialist and host of the Future of Finance topic within the community. He has over a decade of experience working for innovative technology suppliers, spending the last 3 at the mid-market, cloud accounting software specialist Aqilla. He helps finance teams modernise their department using innovative, built-for-cloud software focused on reducing administration through automation whilst enhancing your financial analysis.

During this session, we looked into the general statistics around month-end close, the challenges most finance teams face when it comes to month-end, general ideas on how you can improve your month-end, the specialist technology that is available to support a more automated process and an explanation of the benefits of having a finance system developed on a Unified Ledger structure opposed to a traditional modular model.

Supporting slides

Chris was kind enough to share his session slides that include some useful information to support this topic and the recording of the session:

Find out more

If you have any further questions or wish to speak with me in person, I am more than happy to connect on LinkedIn (Found Here) or you can send me a direct message through the GrowCFO portal or via email [chris.tredwell@aqilla.com].

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