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Jeana has been in the software industry for 13+ years specializing in ERP reporting solutions. She has decades of experience in creative content development and marketing and enjoys exercising, traveling & spending time with her husband & twin boys.

The Top 8 Best Practices To Ensure Good Data In Spreadsheet Financial Reporting

Given the brutal fact that using spreadsheets for complex financial reporting is putting companies’ financial positions at risk, let’s look at the picture of absolute musts for maintaining spreadsheet use. Organizations need to be performing formal quality control of their spreadsheet reports due to the proven error rates and programming-level complexities necessary for spreadsheet development. ...

Spreadsheet Use & Human Bias: Why Both Are Putting Your Company At Financial Risk

Spreadsheet use is universal. And using spreadsheets for complex reporting has proven time and again to be killing people’s time, reducing their ability to make good decisions, and putting companies’ financial positions at risk. Because the ugly truth about spreadsheet use has been known for some time, it’s fair (and right) to ask then, why ...

What You Need To Know About Spreadsheets: The Corporate Secret Killer

Most companies today are using spreadsheets, in at least some form or fashion, for part of their financial reporting. However, most don’t realize just how prevalent errors are in those spreadsheets and how much it’s costing businesses each year. While spreadsheets have their place, they’re being used for things of which they weren’t designed and ...

Why Collaboration Matters: With Your Team & Your Financial Reporting

Since people have to work together to achieve big goals, every successful project, as well as the overall company strategy, starts with collaboration. This is doubly so in today’s age of hyper-specialization. Collaboration in the workplace is a sign of a strong culture focused on creating an effective team to harness the best from two ...

Is Your Internal Financial Reporting Data Safe?

Data security is hugely important to an organization, so much so that it keeps some users up at night. The trouble is that many users are blissfully unaware of potential faults that put their information at risk. A company’s success rests heavily on the strength of its security measures. Failure to implement and maintain appropriate ...

Why You Need Self-Service Reporting…With Complete Drill Down Functionality

Reporting doesn’t need to require therapy. Or Tylenol. For you or anyone within your organization. It certainly doesn’t need to cause a team member to stomp on a computer. Remember the scene in Office Space where Michael Bolton becomes so angry he destroys the office printer? There’s an answer to alleviating workplace stress and aggression ...

Top 6 Steps to Better Corporate Budgeting

Budgeting is a necessary evil. And in today’s fast-paced digital marketplace, it’s more important than ever. It’s the roadmap for the financial operations of your company. The roadmap you simply can’t do without. Budgeting is not a wasted bureaucratic exercise, although it may feel like it at times. Your finance team must be in the ...

You’re The New CFO: Top 6 Tips To Success

You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. And if you’re like most CFO’s, you’re only going to be with the same company for about five years. Which means you don’t have time to waste when you’re starting with a new company. The good news is you are walking in with a ...

News You Can Use: The Debate About Excel Spreadsheets & Its Use In Reporting

In this week’s blog post, we bring you a relevant article from Accounting Today which takes a dive into Excel and the question of whether it has adapted and is enough to meet the demands of modern-day finance and accounting. If you’re using Excel, or have considered using it, for your financial reporting needs, read ...

How Dashboards Can Help You Predict The Future And What You Need To Know First

You don’t need a crystal ball to predict your company’s future. You simply need a clear picture of where you’ve been, where you are, and where you are going. You can’t do any of this without having financial dashboards within your business intelligence reporting solution. Business dashboards take their name from the ever-familiar automobile dashboards. ...

How To Be A Financial Reporting Superstar In Your Company

If your job involves financial reporting in a large company or organization and you want to get ahead FAST, this blog is your ticket. Synoptix software will put you on the fast track to genius, superstar status. And likely earn you some time off, as this solution will give you hundreds of hours back in ...

The Secret To Easy Financial Consolidation Reporting

Consolidations can be complex. Conjure up nightmares. And be scarier than dating Taylor Swift (you don’t want to end up as the headline in one of her songs). But in the accounting world, financial consolidations is a necessary evil. By itself, “consolidation” simply means to put things together; to merge. But in the accounting arena, ...

The Financial Risk of Using Spreadsheets for Reporting

It’s costing your organization more than you think.

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