Empower Efficient Tax and Disclosure Management Processes
Do you find yourself caught in a cycle of spending excessive time on low-value tasks, solely to ensure the accuracy of your data? Are you exhausted from dealing with manual, time-consuming processes and outdated information? If so, it's time to seek a solution that can offer streamlined functionality and alleviate these challenges. You need a flexible and user-friendly solution that centralizes all your data, eliminating concerns regarding accuracy and governance.
Imagine a solution that simplifies your workflow and empowers you to focus on high-value initiatives. One that provides a unified platform where you can effortlessly manage and access all your data, enabling you to make informed decisions quickly and confidently. Say goodbye to the burden of manual data manipulation and outdated processes. With the right solution in place, you can cut your report creation time in half, freeing up valuable resources to concentrate on strategic tasks that drive growth and innovation. Embrace a future where your data works for you, enabling you to unleash your organization's true potential.
Establish a single source of truth that promotes strategic analysis
Professionals across various industries often encounter challenges when attempting to analyze and compare data across different jurisdictions and business units. However, by implementing a centralized and standardized data approach, they can unlock deeper insights and drive informed decision-making. A crucial benefit of utilizing a single source of truth for tax data is the ability to perform comprehensive analysis with accuracy and consistency. By harmonizing data across various entities and locations, professionals gain the ability to compare “apples to apples,” eliminating discrepancies.
To achieve this, you need a solution that functions as a single source of truth to standardize your processes and promote strategic analysis. You need a solution to make sure you tell the most accurate, up to date story around your company’s numbers.
Seamless integration plays a pivotal role in ensuring consistent and efficient reporting processes. By leveraging direct connectivity to source data and incorporating links to data items across documents, organizations can establish a single version of truth, reduce manual errors, and streamline their reporting workflows.
To ensure you have the most up to date, accurate information, you need a solution that enables your company to access the most up-to-date information directly from their data sources, ensuring accuracy and consistency in reporting. By eliminating the risk of working with outdated or disconnected data, organizations can confidently present a unified and accurate view of their financial information.
BEPS regulations pose a significant challenge for your tax calculations. You need to handle more data and more complexity than ever before. How can you ensure your tax team works efficiently and effectively in this changing environment? How can you prepare for the new requirements of Pillar 2? You need a flexible system that supports your data and analytics needs while enabling your team to collaborate.
Hours are lost chasing after spreadsheets and pouring over manual calculations. By automating these processes you’ll be able to devote more time and energy to more strategic activities.
Data silos and static Excel models hinder your team’s ability to move at the speed of your business. Creating a centralized framework for standard calculations helps to dismantle data silos and reduces time spent on manual processes while ensuring the integrity and transparency of your department’s work.
Capturing accurate data required for Country by Country (CbC) reporting can be a frustrating and tedious process, requiring you to manually stitch together data from disparate systems to prepare data for Tables 1,2, and 3 of the report.
Choosing the right ESEF reporting software for complying with the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) requirements could be the kickstart you need on your journey to greater finance efficiency and effectiveness.
With the right software, compliance becomes an opportunity to streamline and integrate all the data-gathering and presentation aspects of financial reporting, leaving your finance team better placed to deliver strategic value.
Newly issued regulatory recommendations or mandates often lack specificity, and are subject to multiple iterations, causing companies to have to adapt each time an update is made.
Gathering the data needed for ESG reporting will likely require establishing new reporting integrations or collaborating with a new team of internal stakeholders. Manually compiling data is error prone, posing a risk of non-compliance. This can have an impact on your firm’s ability to attract investment.
Create an environment to manage the ESG reporting process quickly and securely. Drive definition in the reporting process to help define data flow and identify which stakeholders will be engaged in each part of the report authoring and approval process. Provide a layer of security that allows access and editing capabilities to the appropriate parties.
10-Q and 10-K filings are time-consuming, complex processes that require your finance team to gather and translate large amounts of data from multiple sources. The time and expertise required to complete the process is a substantial burden on your team.
There’s no need to choose between speed, accuracy, and security when you utilize a fully integrated SEC reporting solution. From audit trails by section, to automated notifications and robust access controls, robust disclosure management software provides security, automation, and disclosure integrity.
When your systems and your people don’t talk to each other during the reporting process, a lot of valuable information and knowledge can get lost.
Silos, inefficiencies, and mistakes arise without the ability to track comments in a report and communicate with other team members. Software that includes features like in-app commentary and storyboard functionality helps to eliminate much of the struggle related to collaborative reports and telling the story behind your numbers.
Ensure Accuracy and Eliminate Error Prone Processes
Streamline Workflows and Automate Data Collection for Consistent and Error-Free Results
Certent Disclosure Management
A secure, collaborative enterprise report production platform.
Half the time spent creating internal and external narrative reports
Increase confidence with bulletproof accuracy, even with late changes
Ensure every report is always in perfect alignment with seamless integration
IDL Publisher
Integrate Close and Disclosure Management for Fast, Accurate Statutory and Management Reports.
Simplify the creation of annual and statutory reports
Save time and money with integrated close and disclosure Management
Reduce compliance risk by automating disclosure management
Single version of truth for accurate group financial data
Longview Tax
Flexible, cloud-based corporate tax software that improves the tax function across companies, designed for large entities with complex needs in foreign exchange or complex organizational structures headquartered in North America, EMEA or elsewhere.
Close faster while reducing dependencies on other departments
Eliminate costly consequences of error prone manual tax management
Establish single source of truth that promotes strategic analysis
Longview Transfer Pricing
Navigating changes to supply chains and global tax regulations is a challenge. Longview Transfer Pricing boosts visibility and compliance posture.
Automating manual tasks.
Providing a centralized transfer pricing solution.
Avoiding large, year-end adjustments while saving days’ worth of work at closing.
Enabling teams to comply with tax regulations without having to rely on IT.
Sebastiaan Stoffelen Tax Assurance Specialist
“We found a lot of value in the automation because of our tight reporting timelines. At the end of the process the disclosure notes are all fully automated, resulting in a more controlled outcome because of the validation checks that are built into Longview Tax. Ultimately, we aim for a holistic approach to our tax processes, with one source for multiple users.”
Anders EckerwallHead of Finance
“Implementing Certent saved us time during the critical close process, giving us more time to ask questions thanks to the reducing our manual workload."
Daniel ReilConsolidated accounting consultant, Bauer AG
Switching from Excel packages to online data collection with IDL has paid off. For monthly reporting alone, we will now save two days worth of work when preparing report forms.
Roles & Industries
Utilizing Tax and Compliance Software
Tax and Compliance software is used by a variety of roles within organizations across the tax and finance functions as well as the regulatory functions.
Role
VP of Tax
A VP of Tax manages global tax compliance and reporting obligations for various business entities. They often oversee the completion of Federal and/local state income tax returns including all related analysis and support. Tax software can help a VP of Tax:
Close faster while reducing dependency on other departments
Eliminate costly consequences of error prone manual tax management
Establish a single source of truth that promotes strategic analysis
Group Financial Controller
A group financial controller reports to the CFO and controls the flow from consolidation through to report. They often manage the group’s financial and treasury systems and practices, ensuring financial information is timely, accurate, complete and compliant with relevant accounting and taxation principles. They care about accuracy as well as visibility.
Disclosure management software can help them:
Accelerate their reporting process
Ensure the most accurate and up to date information, even with late changes
Ensure every report is always in perfect alignment through direct connectivity
What are the benefits of using tax and disclosure management software?
Tax and disclosure management software brings efficiency, accuracy, compliance, and better decision-making to an organization’s tax processes, ultimately saving time and reducing costs while ensuring regulatory compliance.
How can I ensure the security of my financial data in the cloud?
You can ensure the security of your financial data in the cloud by choosing a reputable vendor that follows industry best practices and standards for data encryption, backup, recovery, authentication, authorization, and monitoring.
How can I integrate my existing data sources with the tax and disclosure management software?
Ensure the vendor you choose to work with offers seamless integration that can easily connect to your primary data sources, such as ERP systems, spreadsheets, databases, or cloud applications, and that they are able to extract, transform and load this data into their software platform.