Event Details

Date: Thursday, March 18th
Time: 8:00am PT | 10:00am CT | 11:00am ET

In Trintech’s 2020 Global Record to Report Benchmark report, we found that 80% of organizations had only basic or developing automation in place to handle the manual and time-consuming activities of the financial close. A lot has changed within the last year and we saw an increased focus on automation initiatives related to the financial close as a result of the pandemic that changed the way work gets done. Now is the time to benchmark your organization’s financial close process - to compare what has changed over the last year alongside organizations across the globe.

We are creating the 2021 Global Financial Close Benchmark report that will show where finance professionals see themselves today and into the future.

Join this webinar to learn:

  • What impact COVID-19 had on the financial close
  • How this year’s results differ from last year’s
  • Where companies would like to be in 5 years’ time
  • What role technology will play


Fill out this short survey and register for the webinar!


In case you missed it, here are a few highlights from the 2020 Global Record to Report Benchmark report:

In 2020, Trintech surveyed almost 200 companies across 31 countries to discover what has been automated in the financial close process, what is currently in the process of being automated and where organizations are looking to adopt automation in the future.

Recs Tops List as Biggest Challenge

• The research found that the array of challenges faced during the close process is diverse, however, reconciliations topped the list as the biggest challenge.

Lack of Standardization is Blocking Efficiency

• The results showed that more and more organizations are looking at their Record to Report process holistically and identified a lack of standardization across all processes as their main roadblock to efficiency.

WS-IM-Benchmark2020Q1.JPGWhere do you see the biggest challenge during the month end process?

WS-IM-Benchmark2020Q5.JPGWhen you consider the entire R2R process, where do you see the biggest challenges over the next five years?

Biggest Challenge Over Next 5 years

• By 2025, the biggest challenges the Office of Finance expects to face, according to the survey, are personnel related. Attracting and retaining talent will likely become even more difficult, especially if organizations don’t move away from manual and menial activities that can be automated.

The Need for Insights Will Continue

• The workforce is already focusing on bringing greater value to their organizations by generating actionable insights and we expect this will continue to be a trend in the future.


Event Details

Date: Thursday, March 18th 
Time: 8:00am PT | 10:00am CT | 11:00am ET

Join this webinar to learn:

  • What impact COVID-19 had on the financial close
  • How this year’s results differ from last year’s
  • Where companies would like to be in 5 years’ time
  • What role technology will play

*This event is worth 1 CPE Credit!

Learning objectives:

  • Discuss the impact COVID-19 had on the financial close
  • Learn how your organization compares to your peers
  • Discuss where leading organizations plan to be in 5 years’ time
  • Discuss the role technology will play in digital transformations

Trintech Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. Boards of Accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

Program Knowledge Level: Intermediate

Program Prerequisites: None

Program Delivery Method: Group Internet-Based

Field of Study: Accounting