BLACKLINE OPTIMIZATION ACADEMY

Advance your modern accounting journey

The BlackLine Optimization Academy programs combine leading practices with best-in-class technology to help you identify new opportunities for accounting optimization. Walk away with a vision of what transformation can look like and the attainable next steps to get there.

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Leading-practice automation and optimization strategies around nine foundational accounting practices

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Select from two programs that deliver flexibility and expertise to meet your transformation and scheduling needs

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Keep your skills current and earn up to 18 CPE credits

A Framework to Guide Your Optimization Journey

Get inspired and gain leading-practice strategies to solve challenges in the Office of the CFO. Learn more about proven optimization strategies centered around the BlackLine Nine: Subledgers, Suspense/Clearing, Amortizations, Calculations, Accruals, Intercompany, Cash, Rollforwards and General.

Capitalize on learnings from finance and accounting leaders who have accumulated a breadth of experience from thousands of optimization and transformation projects and build your own roadmap for change—where to start, where you want to go, and how you can get there.

Complimentary Offerings

Live Optimization Academy

As the flagship offering of the Optimization Academy, the full Academy includes nine, two-hour virtual sessions. This robust program includes on demand bonus sessions and other resources that will expose you to leading-practice capabilities and guide you in applying these use cases across your processes to achieve end-to-end automation. Attendees can earn up to 18 CPE credits.

The Optimization Academy is an outstanding program. Certainly, the most helpful training I’ve seen not only for BlackLine but for my other systems. It pulls everything together and does a great job of highlighting the beauty of BlackLine integration.

Waters Corporation

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Jump Start

This one-time, six-hour virtual program is designed to help you commence your optimization journey by introducing automation and optimization strategies. Live and interactive, this program enables attendees to earn up to 6 CPE credits.

The session was great! It held my focus the entire time. It was very upbeat with the right balance of interaction and information.

Raymond James & Associates

On Demand

This self-paced program offers nine, two-hour sessions that are prerecorded. You’ll explore the art of the possible and apply your learnings to optimize your modern accounting journey. Attendees can earn up to 18 CPE credits.

The Optimization Academy helped me realize how much more BlackLine has to offer than we are currently using.

BWX Technologies