161 BlackLine Testimonials

“Pre-BlackLine, everything was very scattered. We didn’t have a centralized area and there’s a lot of roll-forward, that minutiae of doing reconciliations that we were focused on. Now, we get to focus on the fun parts of Accounting.”

“Pre-BlackLine, everything was very scattered. We didn’t have a centralized area and there’s a lot of roll-forward, that minutiae of doing reconciliations that we were focused on. Now, we get to focus on the fun parts of Accounting.”

“Knowing that my staff has more efficiencies and that we can cross-train them and make them a stronger team is really important to me. That’s been the intangible return on our investment with BlackLine.”

"Centralizing financial activities into Łódz and establishing global common methods allowed us to streamline processes further with the use of automated reconciliation."

"As we move from manual reconciliations and with better monitoring of month-end close tasks, we have far more time to spend on value-added activities such as analyzing data and preparing additional goals."

"We were updating Oracle at the same time and had a whole new chart of accounts, but it was easy to get everything into BlackLine, Everything was just an import. It was an easy transition, and there were no difficult issues with BlackLine. Any time I had questions, BlackLine got back to me that same day. That’s been very helpful, knowing they’re always available."

"When I came on board and looked at the reconciliation process, I noticed it could use some improvement, I had been part of the BlackLine implementation team at another company, so I knew there was a better way to do it."

"Daisy had so much knowledge of the product that it seemed like a no-brainer from our end. We took ownership and pushed it forward.”

"We have three ERP systems. Each ERP is different. But BlackLine was easy to match with SAP, and we’re working on matching the others."

"Philips has a long history of leadership that has helped create its well-respected name. One of the responsibilities of being a global business leader is having a strong financial reporting system and for that, we rely on Smart Close."

"The only way to summarize items under investigation or track failures was to open every rec individually and then re-key the data into another spreadsheet. It was very time-consuming."

"We had experienced accountants spending time printing and copying rather than doing value-added work, We wanted much more consistency and visibility than we were getting."

"One inefficiency with the system was that account preparers, approvers, or reviewers could not attach any supporting documentation to a reconciliation."

"We chose BlackLine for several reasons. Primarily, because it is a user-friendly end-user tool, which comes with minimal IT involvement to implement. This is important to us, the business, and it’s perfect to use."

"I didn’t expect to be able to quickly import the Excel sheet she had been using, but it uploaded to BlackLine and it just worked. I ran a quick reconciliation. It was really easy."