Recorded Webinars
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- Perspectives on Trends and Best Practices in Financial Close, Compliance and Reporting
featuring research analyst Paul Hamerman
Challenges in today’s economy have forced the Office of Finance to evolve to rapidly changing credit and market conditions, increasing the value of timely and accurate financial data. Trintech’s David Taylor and Theresa Clark will discuss how technology enables financial reporting and compliance across the enterprise, presenting best practices in financial close, reporting and compliance processes, and address trends such as XBRL, shared services, and regulatory reporting process automation. Forrester Research, Inc. analyst Paul Hammerman will discuss perspectives on various types of financial applications.
- Technologies That Finance Executives Cannot Afford to Overlook (with Fujitsu) Although senior finance executives are often aware that they can automate many essential processes, they do not always know how to do so. During this Webcast, you will discover which types of processes lend themselves best to automation. You will also hear about best practices with implementing applications of technology — including automated workflows, information collaboration tools, interactive document preparation and embedded XBRL tagging — that can improve your organization’s overall productivity. In addition, you’ll gain the strategic advantage that comes with understanding technologies that finance executives cannot afford to overlook.
- From Crisis To Control: Full Command of Financial Close Processes and Performance (with Microsoft) Most financial departments have broad strategic goals for improving the financial close process. But in many cases, the close is a managed crisis at best. People can only do so much, but automation enables financial teams to take command of the entire financial process instead of simply managing to controls. Attend this webinar to learn how systematic automation can enable a strategic “command and control” approach to the entire financial close process, reducing risk and effort while increasing transparency and compliance.
- Take Control and Leverage PCI Compliance (with Forrester Research) Take control and leverage the internal control structure necessary for PCI compliance to further improve other compliance initiatives within your organization – PCI-DSS doesn’t have to be a burden on your organization. In this webinar hosted by Trintech and featuring Forrester’s John Kindervag, we will review findings from a recent Forrester PCI-DSS study including how to unlock the value of PCI and identify benefits/opportunities for future security objectives. Dave Sprague, Trintech’s Director, Product Management will discuss the benefits of leveraging technology to implement, manage and report on the internal control structures required for PCI-DSS compliance and beyond.
- Global XBRL Compliance: The “Built-In” Approach to Drive Benefits Over the last few years, XBRL compliance has become a global issue, with different regulating bodies now dictating that businesses file some or all of their financial statements, tax returns and other compliance requirements using the metadata format. Many businesses view XBRL as just another regulatory compliance requirement to check off of their list, prior to filing. But strategic companies are embracing a forward-looking “corporate taxonomy” which leverages the many benefits that XBRL offers to businesses looking to transform their financial operations: communication enhancements, process optimization, increased transparency, and the ability to run a more nimble, adaptable business based upon actionable intelligence. Attend this webinar and you’ll learn how XBRL reporting requirements affect your business, including observations on the common trends seen in XBRL filings to date. You’ll also get recommendations on how to embed XBRL into your overall close and reporting processes using a “built-in” approach that provides efficiencies which most bolt-on solutions can’t deliver.
What you’ll learn in this webinar:
- What your team needs to know … and what they don’t
- Understand extensions, and when to use them
- Achieve compliance cost-effectively
- Leverage the phases of the SEC mandate
- How to evaluate XBRL software vendors.
- “The ‘Must’ to Attaining Touchless P2P” (This is a .wmv file ) This recorded webinar will guide you through the secrets of successful financial process automation. Costly and labour intensive to manage, routine reconciliations are ripe for improvement. Reconciliation software is one of those technologies that not only pays for itself in a very short period of time but simultaneously allows management to improve control and compliance whilst continually adding value as it is applied to other key financial processes.
- FSN Magazine interview with Ted Sparrey discussing ‘Bringing Financial Reporting under Control’. (This is a .wmv file ) The world of group finance is constantly on the move as regulators, governments and accounting bodies around the world seek to introduce measures designed to make multinational organisations more accountable. As a result, the burden of disclosure is growing as external stakeholders of all hues, not just shareholders, clamour for more information with which to assess and compare the performance of leading companies.
Not only has the reporting burden reached fever pitch but so have the risks to reputation and pocket as public companies grapple with increasingly novel disclosures, greater accounting complexity and ever tighter timescales for external reporting.
Confronting all of these challenges means that management must be constantly attuned to financial controls, managing risk and compliance. Fortunately, a number of new technologies are emerging that are capable of transforming the quality and speed of both internal and external reporting processes whilst providing assurance that the underlying controls can be relied upon and that compliance obligations have been fulfilled.
In this recoded webinar, Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor, taps into the knowledge of Ted Sparrey from Trintech. Ted helps companies implement specialist software to provide more robust, compliant and dependable processes, accelerate the financial close, exert more control over reconciliations, and automate statutory filings.
- FSN Magazine Interview of Tony Bethell, Trintech VP EMEA. (This is a .wmv file – 145kb) For businesses with high transaction volumes and low volume complex reconciliations, any delays in matching transactions can quickly lead to unmanageable backlogs, control failures, economic loss, as and a sprawling mass of un-auditable spreadsheets.
With stringent auditing standards and Sarbanes Oxley, few companies can afford to slip up; yet, ERP systems and spreadsheets fail to impact this problem. The key to continuous process improvement is to concentrate on managing exceptions and understanding the root causes of mismatches rather than the simple mechanical process of reconciliation.
Reconciliation solutions allow organizations to transform their approach and achieve very high levels (80% or more) of matching success.
In this recorded webinar, Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor, taps into the knowledge of Tony Bethell, VP EMEA for Trintech. Tony helps companies implement reconciliation software to save money, improve controls, and increase the effectiveness of the finance function. - Driving Excellence in Financial Governance: The Value of an Integrated Approach to Managing Financial Operations. In today’s increasingly complex financial and regulatory environments, companies are facing more challenges than ever to adopt strict policies for Financial Governance. The challenge of managing financial operations, from assuring the accuracy of initial transactions to the issuance of regulatory filings, continues to grow as regulations proliferate and the breadth and depth of business operations grow and evolve. This webinar is co-presented with KPMG.
- Financial Spreadsheets – Improving Visibility and Control. This webinar will explore the key issues surrounding spreadsheet risk and compliance in today’s business environment, and learn how organizations can drive down the cost of compliance and accelerate account reconciliation and financial close processes by automating spreadsheet controls. This webinar is co-presented with Prodiance Corporation.
