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Jason is a Black Diamond practice manager. Over an 18-year career at Koch Industries, he ranged from transactional accounting and ledger ownership to complex consolidation and leadership roles at multiple business divisions and industries.
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As accounting practices have evolved over time, not much has been said to challenge the traditional model, which fundamentally is as simple as ‘capture first, analyze second.’ And why would you? After all, you can’t analyze what you don’t have. For smaller companies and start-ups, this idea still holds true. But for most of you......
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Corporate Performance Management Software Is Now a Financial Imperative The natural reaction to be cautious and delay seems logical, but our recent experience proves that now is the time to make huge progress in leveraging technology to support finance processes and analytical capability. The greatest advances occur in challenging times when people are forced to......
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Robotics Without Robots Most people hear Robotic Process Automation and immediately start picturing an assembly line, not unlike the one above. Repeatable processes handled in a highly efficient manner using purpose-built machines with exacting specifications. Every detail is monitored, every action precisely performed, all with an extremely low failure rate and, with proper maintenance, infinite......
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The stage data dashboard was initially developed for One Stream users and consultants coming from Hyperion/FDMEE.  In FDMEE the workflow displays both source and target data on one form.  You can filter by a target dimension and easily see what source accounts are mapped to the target.  This is very helpful when your mapping from......
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Behind the Diamonds In the late ’90s, I took a leap of faith – leaving my job as a finance manager at the wonderful world of Disney to join a company called Hyperion Solutions. I was terrified to fly, had a full head of hair, and no clue what EPM was or what this cutting-edge......
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