FINANCIAL CLOSE REPORTING

Link numbers and narrative

Turn your collected data and commentary into complex financial reports. Connect data from the accounting close to financial statements, board reports, and executive presentations.

Data and narrative in a single cloud platform

With connected data and analysis, you can quickly build a consistent, cohesive story to present to management, investors, stakeholders, and the board.

Eliminate tedious, time-consuming tasks of collecting data from the period end close for financial forecasting and reporting. Rely on a repeatable framework that can easily be rolled forward, creating time for more financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Shorten the time to insight, and play a larger role in business decisions.

Streamlined analysis based on reliable data

Trust your numbers. By using Workiva as part of your close management process, you can link between source data and destinations throughout multiple documents and presentations, including:

• Consolidated trial balance
• Financial statement analysis
• Variance/flux analysis
• Actuals vs. forecast analysis
• Schedules and roll forwards
• Accruals and estimates
• Dashboarding and status monitoring

If the source changes, every linked instance updates at the same time. Reduce the risk of errors, and track every change with a full audit trail. Use blacklines to compare versions.

Increase efficiency across the organization

Collaborate across teams to draft financial, management, and board reports in the cloud—in real time, with no version control issues.

Expanded reporting teams

Connect contributors across the broader finance function, such as FP&A or tax, to create a holistic reporting environment for monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial reporting. Control access and increase transparency to the reporting process to reduce errors and increase efficiency.

Workiva enables you to manage the collecting and collating of narratives, sourcing data, controlling structure and format, and managing multiple cycles of edits and approvals, all within a single, secure, and easy-to-use cloud platform.

Real-time collaboration

Work with your teams in the same document, at the same time. Role-based permissions enable report owners to control who can access, view, and edit data and text.

Communicate within the platform to track feedback, reduce back-and-forth during editing, and shorten turnaround times.

Deliver timely, trusted reports to stakeholders

Create presentation-ready financial reports for business leaders, investors, and the board of directors. Streamline the review process and provide visibility into changes, comments, and feedback securely within the Workiva platform.

Flexible report production and delivery

Easily create high-quality financial reports, board books, and presentations in the format that works best for your team—in spreadsheet, document, dashboard, or slide form. Leverage mobile apps for report review and commenting. Manage reviews, approvals, and final sign-offs all on the same document.

Create a wide range of reports for stakeholders, including:

• Management reports
• Business unit reports
• KPI/QMI/Flash reports
• Period and scenario packages
• Board of director reports

Improved decision making

Deliver robust financial reports filled with dynamic charts, tables, and source data linked from multiple enterprise systems and spreadsheets.

Workiva enables you to unify and prepare data with queries, contextual tagging, and filters. Attach supporting documentation to specific values in your quarterly and annual reports and other financial disclosures, or request documentation from colleagues. Annotate and tie out financial statements and workpapers.