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BlackLine Unveils Quick-Deployment Remote Audit Package To Help Customers Prepare For Audits With Confidence In Uncertain Times
The process of auditing a company's financials to ensure that all information is accurate and complete, that the company's controls are adequate and effective, and that the company is adhering to policies, procedures and regulations has long been an onsite task. In today's current state, most organizations and auditors will have to perform these processes from a remote location, creating challenges in obtaining the necessary information and supporting documentation that auditors may require for sign-off.
BlackLine Remote Audit is a repeatable, packaged process complete with all the knowledge and leading practices needed around conducting an audit remotely including templated PBC (Prepared By Client) lists; close, certification and IT checklists; task tracking; ready-to-go report templates; audit notes for internal and external auditors; pre-configured status dashboards; approval flows; policies and procedures; and more. By applying a combination of native cloud technology with a simplified, pre-designed services package including live virtual implementation, training and support time with
"Hundreds of leading companies have been using
With unprecedented uncertainty facing many organizations today, it's more challenging than ever for F&A to deliver an accurate picture of a company's financial health. With F&A now also tasked with adjusting to a distributed workforce, BlackLine Remote Audit can help by guiding teams to achieve a collaborative and successful audit from wherever they're working, without sacrificing productivity. With BlackLine providing a single, unified platform for all accounting close information, customers and their auditors (both internal and external) are able to perform all audit work remotely—dramatically reducing the manual effort involved in preparation time and chasing down details.
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- "The audit process for many of our SOX controls has become hands-free. As long as the attached documentation and the information that we provide matches, auditors can complete a monthly audit without even having to contact us." –
Shannon Randolph , Staff Accountant, Scotts Miracle-Gro - "I knew we hit a home run when we had two external auditors in my office asking for access to
BlackLine ." –John Zimmerman , Director,Financial Data Systems , The Hershey Company - "With BlackLine, we can now demonstrate financial compliance more effectively, and develop a more efficient way for financial analysts and auditors to prepare, approve and monitor account reconciliations, and review attached documentation." –
Laurel Johns , Manager, Finance Consolidation and Controls, Scotts Miracle-Gro
Customers can reach out to customerexperience@blackline.com to learn how they can add BlackLine Remote Audit to their existing
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