BLACKLINE OPTIMIZATION ACADEMY
Advance your modern accounting journey with the BlackLine Nine.
Attend an individual BlackLine Nine process session or the full 18-week program.
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.
Based on our experience working on thousands of transformation projects, we’ve organized our optimization strategies in categories that we call the BlackLine Nine. Click one of the nine buttons below to see dates and times for upcoming sessions.
Subledger
Join one of these sessions to learn how BlackLine can help solve challenges within your subledger system processes like fixed assets, inventory, accounts payable, or accounts receivable.
Suspense/Clearing
Join one of these sessions to learn how BlackLine can help solve challenges within your suspense and clearing account processes and automate activity within processes like cash, payroll, T&E, and CIP where these accounts house transactions temporarily.
Amortization
Join one of these sessions to learn how you can take the manual work out of your amortization processes. Find out how to leverage BlackLine to manage high volumes of transaction data, different close schedules, and varied amortization types.
Amortization
Tuesday, February 06, 2024 - 9:00 AM PST
Amortization
Thursday, February 08, 2024 - 9:00 AM EST
Amortization
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Amortization
Tuesday, March 05, 2024 - 12:00 PM AEDT
Amortization
Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Amortization
Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 9:00 AM PST
Amortization
Friday, March 08, 2024 - 9:00 AM AEDT
Amortization
Friday, March 08, 2024 - 9:00 AM IST
Calculations
Join one of these sessions to learn how BlackLine can help automate and control your processes that rely heavily on spreadsheet calculations, including those with vlookups, formulas, macros, and more.
Calculations
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 9:00 AM PST
Calculations
Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 9:00 AM EST
Calculations
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Calculations
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Calculations
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 9:00 AM PDT
Calculations
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 9:00 AM AEDT
Calculations
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 9:00 AM IST
Calculations
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 12:00 PM AEDT
Accruals
Join one of these sessions to learn how you can achieve leading-practice optimization strategies around accrual processes, such as AP accruals, subsystem accruals, forecast-based accruals, and unbilled revenue.
Accruals
Tuesday, March 05, 2024 - 9:00 AM PST
Accruals
Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 9:00 AM EST
Accruals
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Accruals
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Accruals
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 9:00 AM PDT
Accruals
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 9:00 AM AEDT
Accruals
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 9:00 AM IST
Accruals
Tuesday, April 02, 2024 - 12:00 PM AEDT
Intercompany
Intercompany activity should net to zero. Yet it rarely (if ever) does. Join one of these sessions to learn how you can automate and transform your intercompany processes like reconciling intercompany receivables and payables.
Intercompany
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 9:00 AM PST
Intercompany
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 9:00 AM EST
Intercompany
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Intercompany
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 9:00 AM PDT
Intercompany
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 9:00 AM AEDT
Intercompany
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 9:00 AM IST
Intercompany
Tuesday, April 09, 2024 - 12:00 PM BST
Intercompany
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 12:00 PM AEST
Cash
Join one of these sessions to learn how you can leverage the BlackLine platform to automate end-to-end cash related processes like managing cash receipts and cash disbursements, cash application, or reconciling back or credit card activity.
Cash
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Cash
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 9:00 AM PDT
Cash
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 9:00 AM AEDT
Cash
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 9:00 AM IST
Cash
Tuesday, April 02, 2024 - 9:00 AM PST
Cash
Thursday, April 04, 2024 - 9:00 AM EST
Cash
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 12:00 PM BST
Cash
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 12:00 PM AEST
Rollforwards
Join one of these sessions to learn how you can transform your rollforward processes by leveraging BlackLine functionality to automatically categorize transactions, group accounts, automate journal entries, and link to your reconciliations.
Rollforwards
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
Rollforwards
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 9:00 AM PDT
Rollforwards
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 9:00 AM AEDT
Rollforwards
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 9:00 AM IST
Rollforwards
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 9:00 AM PST
Rollforwards
Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 9:00 AM EDT
Rollforwards
Tuesday, May 07, 2024 - 12:00 PM BST
Rollforwards
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 12:00 PM AEST
General
Join one of these sessions to learn how to optimize processes like write-offs of required adjustments or immaterial differences on reconciliations, recurring journal entries, or miscellaneous accounts like Other T&E Accruals, FX, or Security Deposits.
General
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:00 PM GMT
General
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 9:00 AM PDT
General
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 9:00 AM AEDT
General
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 9:00 AM IST
General
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 9:00 AM PST
General
Thursday, May 02, 2024 - 9:00 AM EDT
General
Tuesday, May 21, 20244 - 12:00 PM BST
General
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 12:00 PM AEDT
Full 18-Week Programs
As the flagship offering of the Optimization Academy, the 18-week program includes nine, two-hour virtual sessions. This robust program includes bonus sessions, a super sandbox, complimentary consulting, and other tools 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
Solutions
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Modern Accounting Playbook
Company
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