About ARTYou Call it Automation
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ART automates your month-end account reconciliation activities by doing away with spreadsheets, crazy emailing and printing. Enjoy ART's powerful workflow management and reporting tools to manage account reconciliations and become more productive without ever installing software.
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| Quick Tip for a Faster & Tighter Close |
 Nancy Wu, Head of Client Service, SkyStem
According to Ventana Research, “cutting the time to complete the accounting cycle is rarely a matter of finding one or two bottlenecks…[I]t is almost always a matter of addressing a large number of small things, which in aggregate add up to days or weeks that can be saved.” And where do you find these small things that add up to a long drawn out close?
Believe it or not, some of them are in your reconciliations (yes, those unglamorous, unexciting things). When done correctly, month-end reconciliations uncover errors that require journal entry adjustments. And because some accounts are not reconciled until weeks into the close, resulting adjustments are not identified until even later– thus unnecessarily drawing out the close. If you must complete reconciliations manually and cannot start the reconciliation activity sooner, consider these techniques to fight the phenomenon: - Leverage materiality. That adjustment for $67 probably won’t affect management analysis. Book it in the subsequent period so the financials for this month are not disturbed.
- Reprioritize. Leading practice recommends reconciling high risk accounts first. But don’t be afraid to also prioritize a lower risk account if adjustments are coming out of it consistently.
- Go upstream. Frequent errors are indicative of a process or technology breakdown at the transaction point. Pinpoint the pattern and perhaps you can fix the problem at its source.
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Three Ways ART Saves You Time During the Close
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- ART reconciles low-risk accounts on its own so your people can focus on higher priority tasks and get work done faster.
- ART matches transactions between ledger, subledgers and bank statements to auto-identify reconciling items, so adjustments are recorded timelier.
- ART refreshes account reconciliations as the balance sheet is updated during the close, so there is no rework when the ledger changes.
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SkyStem, LLC
www.skystem.com
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