Continuous Accounting, Intercompany Account Reconciliation And Automation Key Topics At InTheBlack Asia 2018

Inaugural BlackLine ASEAN/Asia user conference to feature speakers from Deloitte, plus local clients Cold Storage and NETS

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Jul 11, 2018, 09:00 ET

LOS ANGELES and SINGAPORE, July 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Following on the success of its recent event in Sydney, financial automation software provider BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) is adding a second Asia-Pacific regional user conference. The inaugural InTheBlack Asia will take place next week in Singapore and is designed to serve the company's growing base of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and northern Asia customers.

InTheBlack Asia 2018: The Accounting & Finance Innovation Summit (ITB Asia) will highlight best practices for accelerating the financial close and handling intercompany transactions as companies increasingly seek to transform their accounting and finance organizations. The conference will feature speakers from regional BlackLine customers, including Cold Storage and NETS, with Finance & Accounting (F&A) professionals from each sharing best practices learned by automating critical F&A processes using BlackLine's cloud platform.

A key theme for this year's conference is Continuous Accounting, an advance over the traditional record-to-report process where real-time automation, controls and period-end tasks are embedded within day-to-day activities enabling companies to continually capture, validate and analyze financial data in a timely and precise manner. Attendees of ITB Asia will learn first-hand how leading-edge organizations that adopt a Continuous Accounting model are transforming their F&A departments. Reconciliation of intercompany accounts also will be highlighted.

In addition to local customers and BlackLine executives, presentations will be given by thought leaders from partners such as Deloitte.

Representatives from other BlackLine client companies from around the region are registered to attend, joining BlackLine's team of experts in Singapore. As part of the company's ongoing commitment to strengthen its global operations to provide clients everywhere with superior service, BlackLine has designed the event as an interactive session for attendees in the region to share their ideas on how F&A can get the most value out of the BlackLine platform.

Both new and experienced users who attend the Singapore sessions will be given an opportunity to:

Learn best practices from BlackLine's team of experts and other customers
Hear how experienced users from other regional companies creatively use BlackLine
Preview upcoming software enhancements
Directly influence the product direction going forward

BlackLine currently has more than 150 customers based in the Asia-Pacific region, including ANZ Banking Group, Cold Storage, Coopervision, DuluxGroup, NETS, Qantas Airways, Scoot Tigerair and Tabcorp Holdings, with sales, professional services and technical support team employees based in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore.

ITB Asia 2018 will be held on 17 July at the Pan Pacific Singapore. For more information, go here.

About BlackLine
BlackLine is a provider of cloud-based solutions that transform Finance and Accounting (F&A) by automating, centralizing and streamlining financial close operations, intercompany accounting processes and other key F&A processes for large and midsize organizations. Designed to complement virtually all ERP and other financial systems including SAP, Oracle and NetSuite, BlackLine increases operational efficiency, real-time visibility, control and compliance to ensure end-to-end financial close management and accounting automation from within a single, unified cloud platform.

Enabling customers to move beyond outdated processes and point solutions to a Continuous Accounting model, in which real-time automation, controls and period-end tasks are embedded within day-to-day activities, BlackLine helps companies modernize accounting operations with intelligent automation, ensuring more accurate and insightful financial statements and a more efficient financial close. More than 2,200 companies with users in approximately 150 countries around the world trust BlackLine to help ensure balance sheet integrity and confidence in their financial statements.

BlackLine is recognized by Gartner as a Leader in its 2017 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Corporate Performance Management (FCPM) and as a pioneer in the cloud market for enhanced financial control and automation of FCPM.

Based in Los Angeles, BlackLine also has regional headquarters in London, Singapore and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.blackline.com.

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