Closing with Confidence: Best Practices for a Seamless Month-End Close
In today’s evolving financial landscape, finance leaders are under increasing pressure to close faster, with fewer resources and greater accuracy. This session will spotlight essential strategies for managing the month-end close with efficiency and precision. Hear directly from Aico’s financial close specialists as they reveal actionable techniques to drive speed, accuracy, and enforce controls through their unique smart automation capabilities. Learn how to implement best practices across key activities like closing task management, reconciliations, journal entry handling, and intercompany invoicing and reconciliations.
Key topics in this session include:
- Practical real-world strategies that go beyond theory.
- How to overcome common close challenges like manual task tracking, unstandardized journal entries, and time-consuming, low-transparency reconciliations.
- Discover how real-time ERP integration can streamline your close process, improving accuracy, accelerating cycle times, and ensuring a more controlled, audit-ready close.
Speakers
Clive Jefferies
Global Product Owner
Aico
Clive is the Aico product owner and a member of Aico’s Leadership Team. He has been with Aico since the beginning and was instrumental in Aico’s inception. He is responsible for the functional design of the Aico platform delivering our solutions including Account Reconciliation, Close Task Management, Journal Entry and Intercompany Invoicing. He remains active in customer projects and pre-sales supporting both sales and delivery where needed.
Laurence Ho
Delivery Consultant
Aico
Laurence is one of Aico’s Delivery Consultants as part of the Professional Services team. Since joining Aico back in 2021, he has worked on a number of Aico implementation projects, working closely with our customers to identify their needs and deliver impactful results and lasting relationships.
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