Name: Real world accounting with AI: ROI, benefits, and pitfalls
Start: 2024-03-06T21:49:00Z
End: 2024-03-06T21:49:52.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Intacct is the cloud financial management company. Bringing cloud computing to finance and accounting, Intacct's award-winning applications are the preferred financial applications for AICPA business solutions. Intacct applications are used by more than 8,500 businesses from startups to public companies and are designed to improve company performance and make finance more productive.

Learn how finance professionals are making their businesses more agile by speeding up the financial close with automation. Here are a few of the most important findings:
- 82% of businesses in the past year have looked to technology and automation to help their close process.
- Those with the most automation have 3X more time for value-added activities.
- Those that have adopted a cloud solution are on average 25% more automated than those that haven’t.

Watch the on-demand webinar and hear guest speaker, Angela Biermann (Director of Finance and Human Resources, Nextmune), explain what this means for today’s businesses.

Find Freedom from Your Financial Close with Automation

QuickBooks is a name that everyone knows for good reason. They’ve found a way to make the financial aspects of starting a small business accessible and understandable for essentially anyone. 

However, if your goals include growth, expansion, multi-national or even global trade, your accounting needs are going to be well beyond the scope of QuickBooks’ abilities.

This was the case for the companies we'll be chatting with in this webcast, Journeys from QuickBooks. Join Sage Intacct to hear from various finance leaders about their limitations with QuickBooks and their digital transformation journeys. 

In this webcast, you’ll hear from:
- SA Consumer Products: Tanya Brunning, Controller at SA Consumer Products a Wholesale Manufacturer & Distributor company
- Amplify Life Insurance Co.: Ian Westerman, Head of Finance at Amplify Life Insurance Co., a Permanent Life Insurance Agency
- Anivive Lifesciences Inc.: Cheryl Collett, CFO at Anivive Lifesciences, Inc., an Animal Health Pharmaceutical

Journeys from QuickBooks: Stories from the Front Lines of Finance

From ESG programs to hiring new talent, from financial management modernization to the evolving role of the finance leader—there are constantly new changes, challenges, and topics hitting the world of accounting and finance.

With this, the question becomes, what should you be prioritizing as a finance leader?

We’ve partnered with FEI Canada to find out just that. FEI Canada and Sage surveyed finance leaders across Canada to understand their biggest priorities and challenges in 2023. 

In this webcast, we'll dive into the survey results we’ll dive into the survey results to help you establish your leadership priorities and solutions for successfully tackling these priorities head-on.

Finance Leaders' Top Priorities in 2023

Businesses want, and need, more from their finance systems than ever before—and that includes using the most up-to-date and advanced systems found in SaaS and cloud-enabled financial management systems.

As you consider your alternatives for modern finance and accounting, cloud financial management solutions, such as Sage Intacct, emerge as the best choice because it’s designed to meet your immediate needs as well as adapt as your business grows.

Learn about the benefits of moving your financials to the cloud and how to know if it’s the right move for your company.

Financial Management Modernization - The Journey and Destination

When it comes to analyzing financial data, organizations continue to face challenges around providing up-to-the-minute reports and KPIs to key stakeholders.

Join Sage Intacct for our upcoming 30-minute webinar “Insights on Demand: Serve Up Metrics that Matter.” During this session, you’ll learn:
1. The importance of dashboards for the finance function
2. How Sage Intacct enables you to serve up the metrics that matter most for your business
3. How to generate on-demand, role-based dashboards
4. Real-world examples of how customers are leveraging these capabilities to make their lives easier

Serve Up the Metrics that Matter with Role-Based Dashboards

According to recent Sage research presented in The Redefined CFO Report, 77% of Canadian finance leaders are leading digital transformation efforts in their organizations. These CFOs believe digital transformation is fundamental to providing businesses with the agility and scalability needed to thrive in today’s landscape. 

Watch this webcast to hear about our research results into the evolving roles of Canadian finance leaders, the challenges they’re facing, and the steps they’re taking to embrace technology and innovation in their organizations. 

- Gain insights from two finance industry leaders—Pamela Steer, CEO of CPA Canada and Daniel Oh, Country Manager for Sage Canada
- Learn why Canadian CFOs believe it’s important for them to have the skills necessary to drive the adoption of new technologies
- Find out about 3 new types of CFOs: Chief Facilitative Officers, Chief Fairness Officers & Chief Future Officers
- Stay informed about cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation as crucial technologies for organizations to integrate
- Discover what finance leaders are doing to recruit new employees with the right mix of technology skills

The Redefined CFO: Evolving Roles of Canadian Finance Leaders

Modern businesses require speed and agility, especially with the recent economic environment and the need for responsiveness in the digital age. 

To better understand what it means to be a modern finance team, we surveyed 200 Canadian finance and accounting leaders at small and midsized businesses. In this webcast, we go through our findings and discuss how to modernize your finance organization, so you can stay ahead of the curve.

Managing modern finance in a time of unprecedented change

As CFOs and Controllers, we need to be on the same page when reporting financial and operational data.  From closing the books to preparing for audits, collaboration is critical when providing strategic direction to the organization. 
 
Join our panel of finance leaders as we discuss 5 essential questions controllers should be asking their CFOs to better plan and project the future of their businesses and establish best practices around: 
 
• Closing the books  
• Leveraging automation  
• Preparing for audits 
• Reporting and analytics 
• Designing the future roadmap for accounting software

5 Questions Controllers Should Be Asking Their CFO

Technology should provide solutions, not barriers.

QuickBooks can be an adequate bookkeeping solution for small businesses but its biggest Achilles heel is its inability to scale at the same pace as your company.

Growing organizations need financial management software that leverages automation, delivers powerful business insights, and closes the books faster.

Watch webinar to identify the seven telltale signs your business has outgrown QuickBooks – and what you can do about it.

You’ll learn about:
1. Restrictions costing your business time and money
2. Reducing manual processes, such as invoicing
3. Generating detailed revenue reports that aren’t calculated on a spreadsheet
4. Enabling management to make data-driven decisions using real-time financial insight 
Breaking down information silos so you can share financial data with teams beyond the accounting department
5. Available support for your business with cloud-based modern financial software like Sage Intacct

7 Signs Your Business Has Outgrown QuickBooks

Sage executives have collaborated with their customers, partners and thought leaders to research key trends that are reshaping accounting and finance in 2023. Join Judy Hanover and Aaron Harris of Sage, as they discuss their findings and analyze how innovative businesses can stay one step ahead in an increasingly competitive landscape over the coming year.

Key Trends That Are Shaping Accounting and Finance in 2023

Change. It’s inevitable. You may have found that in the past, you could easily handle your company’s finances with your current accounting solution and a small number of spreadsheets. As your business expands, you may start to outgrow your current financial management software. You find yourself logging in and out of entities to rekey inter-entity transactions and to ensure everything balances. This makes consolidations difficult and leads to long closes.

Unsure about whether you should graduate to the Cloud? Watch this webinar and hear from The Responsible Gambling Council to learn how they knew it was time for a digital transformation.

Watch this webcast to learn:
1. What is digital transformation and financial management modernization
2. How Les Horenfeldt, CFO at Responsible Gambling Council uses Sage Intacct to provide their business with the tools needed to successfully compete in a connected, digital world
3. The common signs your business is ready for a cloud-based accounting solution
4. Watch a 10-minute demo of Sage Intacct in action

Signs You’re Ready for Cloud Financial Management

Leading CFOs collaborate closely with their controllers to define and implement winning strategies throughout financial operations, but how do you know if you're asking the right questions?

Join Sage Intacct and guest speakers, Israel Askew, CFO of Emission Monitoring Service, Inc. and Andrew Pease, CFO of Brighter, as we discuss the 5 essential questions CFOs must ask their controllers and finance teams to better plan and project the future of their organizations and establish best practices around:

• Accounting Compliance • Operational Efficiency • Business Performance Visibility

5 Questions Every CFO Should Be Asking Their Controller

Join our webcast to hear from our panel of experts as we explore how financial management modernization can help you level up your finance team and stay ahead of the curve.  

Hear from Jennifer Neal, Director of Corporate Services at AdapatAbilities as well as from Remi Straus, Head of Finance at the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Canada to learn about:
1. What prompted AdaptAbilities and the Duke of Edinburgh Awards to modernize accounting and finance
2. How these customers got other stakeholders on board
3. Tips and tricks about their process to select a solution and how they transitioned to Sage Intacct
4. The impact of financial management modernization on their organizations - now, and into the future

Gain the Power of Financial Management Modernization

Does your finance team struggle with consolidating, reporting, and analyzing operational and financial data across multiple entities? If you’re nodding your head in agreement, this webcast was designed just for you!

Join our upcoming webcast to learn about how the right multi-entity shared solution eliminates the toil and errors that come with multiple logins, chart of accounts drift, and manual consolidations.

In this Sage Intacct webinar, you’ll learn how to:
- Consolidate continuously to cut days or even weeks off your close
- Automate inter-entity transactions, eliminations, currency conversions, and more
- Add and set up new entities in minutes
- Enhance financial visibility at any level

Streamline Your Multi-Entity Consolidations and Management

Time. Sometimes it feels like there is never enough of it, especially in the finance and accounting world. Finance leaders have long been looking for ways to reduce time spent on tedious processes such as close, consolidations, reporting and payroll—to not only improve efficiency but also to allow for more time spent on higher value initiatives.

That’s where AI can help. Join Sage Intacct and our panel of experts as we explore how AI is impacting the finance function across all industries. 

During this session, you’ll learn about:
1. AI and how you can use it to your advantage
2. The benefits for companies of all sizes
3. How you can prepare today for the financial management of tomorrow

Learn How AI is Already Transforming Financial Management

Watch our on-demand webinar to gain strategic insights as the financial landscape evolves in 2024. Discover the wisdom of AI trailblazers, including Aaron Harris, CTO at Sage, Kristi Facchini, CFO at Auto Claims Direct, and Sarah Janowiz, CFO at Cambio Communities. Dive into the cutting-edge guidance and expertise at the intersection of artificial intelligence and finance to learn how to:
- Ignite Transformation: AI's finance revolution—data-driven decisions, excellence, innovation.
- Elevate Human-AI Synergy: Empower brilliance while AI handles the routine.
- Forge Trust in Tech: AI safeguarding your ecosystem—secure, reliable, and trusted.
- Fuel Sustainable Growth: AI-driven ethics for a brighter, equitable future.
- Craft Your AI Odyssey: Master ROI, benefits, and pitfalls with real-world expertise.

Watch the webinar now, and take the helm as a leader in the finance of tomorrow and beyond!

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