BeyondTheBlack: In-Depth Training at BlackLine University Day

Are you looking to accelerate adoption, productivity, and performance of BlackLine at your organization?

From helping over 4,400 companies implement our solutions, we know that effective user training and adoption are critical success drivers for future-ready financial operations. BlackLine University is designed to foster user engagement, support ongoing learning, and promote advocacy for your organization's long-term vision to ensure your success. We offer self-paced and live training options for all customers all year long.

However, BeyondTheBlack offers the unique opportunity to attend BlackLine University Day. This is a full-day in-person learning experience where you can choose from a wide selection of courses and workshops—from interactive and hands-on classes to product overviews and deep dives. We guarantee you’ll take home practical, actionable knowledge you can immediately apply at your organization.

This opportunity is available exclusively for BlackLine customers, and spots are limited!

Read on to learn the top 3 reasons you shouldn’t miss your chance to attend this training, then register to save your seat.

When you attend BlackLine University Day, you’ll have the unique opportunity to be in the same room with dozens of your F&A peers, who are all on their own journey to financial transformation.

This in-person interaction will help you build positive energy around your BlackLine project. As you listen to others’ questions and comments, you'll also gain inspiration from real-life customer use cases. All this in-depth knowledge will help you discover leading practices for maximum value creation around your BlackLine journey.

In addition, being in the same room as BlackLine experts allows you to get your questions answered in real time. Then, you can immediately apply what you’ve learned in your own instance with guided, hands-on practice!

Automation is great, but not when you’re simply automating and moving bad processes to the cloud. These in-depth, hands-on classes will show you how BlackLine solutions can help solve process challenges involving reporting, analysis, variance and exceptions, accuracy and visibility, too much manual work, and more.

Whether you’re new to BlackLine or a seasoned administrator, early in your finance and accounting career or an experienced leader, BlackLine University Day gives you the chance to earn CPEs while you grow your skillset, hone your expertise, and master your BlackLine solutions.

In addition, BlackLine University Day attendees can earn one voucher to take an online certification exam (a $300 value) by attending all courses within one of the following tracks:

• Financial Close: Fundamentals

• Account Reconciliations Administration

• BlackLine Transaction Matching

BlackLine certifications help you develop BlackLine knowledge and technical skills and validate your product and industry expertise to grow your career and meet rising demands in Finance and Accounting. These credentials position F&A professionals to be agile and demonstrate your dedication to financial excellence and ongoing learning.

Choose your learning journey by signing up for any session in each time block. Here are the nine BlackLine University Day tracks to help you plan your day:

1.        Discover More—Learn about Financial Reporting Analytics end-user functions and/or oversight roles functions, BlackLine Studio, or optimizing the data import template

2.        Account Reconciliations Administration—In part 1, you’ll learn essential administration activities in support of system design and ongoing maintenance. Part 2 dives deeper into administration functions, such as auto-certification settings and rules, item settings, and reconciliation grouping.

A certification exam voucher is provided after completing both classes in this track!

3.        Financial Close: Advanced Journals—Learn how to create Journal Masters from an existing journal entry and integrate with Task Management and Account Reconciliations to have current accounting done in the current period. There’s also a class where you’ll discover how to create an Automated Journal Definition to optimize your processes and reduce time spent on journal preparation.

4.        Financial Close: Fundamentals—Get the knowledge required to understand and use BlackLine’s Financial Close solutions: close dashboards, Transaction Matching, Journal Entry, Task Management, and Account Reconciliations.

5.        Financial Close: Getting Started—Understand, design, and use BlackLine’s Journal Entry and/or Account Reconciliations solutions. 

6.        Financial Close: Leading Practices—Learn about the power of role security and teams; how to optimize your reconciliations; how to streamline reconciliations with account groups; and/or auto-certification strategies.

7.        Account Reconciliations Templates & Items—Go beyond the fundamentals by increasing accuracy and efficiency with Account Reconciliations templates and items.

A certification exam voucher is provided after completing both classes in this track!

8.        BlackLine Transaction Matching—Understand, design, and use BlackLine’s Transaction Matching solution to modernize the high-volume reconciliation process by unifying data using business-defined rules to compare data sets and apply automation.

A certification exam voucher is provided after completing both classes in this track!

9.        Invoice-to-Cash: Cash Application—Get an introduction to Cash Application; learn how to use AR Intelligence; and/or discover how to handle challenging payments that need a remittance.

Join us at BlackLine University Day to take your BlackLine skills to the next level. Spots are limited, so register today to save your spot and achieve more than you ever thought possible!