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TRINTECH’S
CLIENTS INCLUDE:
BAE Systems
Blackstone
FOR FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS,
BY FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS
Designed and built by financial professionals for financial
professionals, Cadency leverages the deep financial
governance expertise of Trintech, the leading provider of
software solutions for the Last Mile of Finance.
With offices in Dallas, Silicon Valley, London, Amsterdam,
Paris, Hong Kong and Dublin, Trintech reduces financial
risk for half of the Fortune 50 and nearly 25% of the
Fortune 500, encompassing more than 650 clients and
100,000 users worldwide.
Microsoft
O2
Regis Corporation
RR Donnelley
Yahoo!
TRINTECH’S
PARTNERS INCLUDE:
SAP Certified Solution
Provider
Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner
For more information
[email protected]
Adobe Platinum
Partner
trintech.com
Fujitsu
REINVENT
RECORD-TOREPORT
KPMG
Barnstone
Cube
Grupo In Motion
Spectrum Software
Longview Solutions
Capgemini BPO
HP BPO
Introducing Cadency, the only single financial governance
solution that manages your entire R2R cycle in a single product.
Other BPO
organizations
Resellers
Why is the Last Mile of Finance still so cumbersome and risk-prone?
Because the manual processes and point software solutions to
manage the Record-to-Report process are so disjointed.
That is, until now.
trintech.com
Finally, with Cadency from Trintech, financial
executives have the world’s only financial governance
solution that weaves all Record-to-Report (R2R)
activities into a single, seamless process. The result:
a reinvented, shortened R2R cycle that minimizes
risk, resources and costs, and aligns with a constantly
changing business and regulatory environment.
TRANSPARENCY, GOVERNANCE AND CONTROL
With Cadency, your Office of Finance can finally
establish a repeatable rhythm for the Record-toReport process. That means you can orchestrate all
stakeholders and streamline all process activities,
while measuring and managing the risk profile in
your financial governance model.
being issued, Cadency empowers continuous
process improvements in account reconciliation and
compliance…in financial reporting and XBRL tagging…
and in regulatory reporting, disclosures and filing.
•A
utomating financial disclosures to reduce errors
and shorten the process timeline
The result of this all-in-one, one-of-a-kind solution:
Today’s finance executives can succeed in a changing
environment by exhibiting controlled agility —
“controlled” to ensure the highest level of data
accuracy and integrity in financial close data, and
“agility” to adapt to and meet organizational changes
that mitigate risk, via enterprise-wide:
•C
onnecting all stakeholders in the disclosure/
reporting process — external auditors, legal counsel,
printers, partners, etc. — through a collaborative
“workflow playbook”
•T
ransparency, monitoring your R2R process step
by step, through a real-time console that tracks
workflow, exceptions, KPIs and tasks
While Cadency integrates Certification, Compliance
and Completion, it simultaneously manages two
real-time, risk-mitigating R2R activities that span
across the R2R process: Close and Journal Entry.
• Control to ensure you’re managing those R2R
practices in the right way
Close — Cadency enables you to gain complete
management and audit transparency into the
period-end financial close. You can use a consoledriven management framework to:
A SINGLE VERSION OF THE TRUTH
How does Cadency ensure a single version of the
truth and a compliant close? By spanning across
all R2R activities, including:
•D
riving efficiency through dynamic account
analytics that facilitate a top-down, risk-based
approach to reconciliation
•A
utomating review of reconciliations and
certification for all balance sheet accounts
•U
sing simple templates to standardize and
streamline balance sheet verification
•G
aining needed visibility to ensure compliance
•E
nabling reconciliation controls and reducing
dependency on unmanaged spreadsheets
•R
educing operational costs and improving
internal control
Compliance — Ensure corporate and regulatory
compliance by:
•M
anaging cross-enterprise compliance initiatives,
including SOX, HIPAA, FERC/NERC and more
•C
oordinating security standards such as PCI-DSS,
and other process management initiatives, including
quality control, IT governance and security
•M
anaging corporate social responsibility (CSR)
initiatives such as green and sustainability projects
MANAGE
CLOSE
TRANSACTION SYSTEMS
Certification — Control and automate the general
ledger reconciliation process by:
MEASURE
CERTIFICATION
PROCESS
COMPLIANCE
PROCESS
•P
romote teamwork among dispersed finance
teams (and external auditors) through an advanced
collaboration-and-workflow environment
COMPLETION
PROCESS
JOURNAL ENTRY
STAKEHOLDERS & REGULATORS
MONITOR
•C
ompliance — Ensuring corporate and
regulatory compliance
•C
ompletion — Reporting and disclosing
with confidence
• Identify bottlenecks and communicate potential
issues early and often, reducing the possibility of
missed deadlines and ensuring accurate, complete
financial statements
CADENCY RECORD-TO-REPORT
•C
ertification — Verifying the integrity of
financial performance
•E
asily integrating with your current workflow solutions,
including XBRL tagging, Word, Excel and more
GOVERNANCE THAT SPANS THE R2R PROCESS
• Governance to ensure you’re following the right
R2R practices
Across the entire R2R cycle, from the time a
transaction occurs through financial statements
•S
peeding up the delivery of all regulatory
submissions and supporting documents
SHORTEN TIME CYCLES
•R
educe external audit time and cost by creating
“Close e-Binders,” a final system of record for all
documents and activities to reconstruct the close
•O
rchestrate and manage all system, analytical and
dependent close activities
Journal Entry — Cadency’s fully integrated journal
entry workflow enables you to:
•E
xercise management oversight to take control of
the manual journal entry process
•E
nsuring that your financial governance model
is properly implemented, and that relevant
performance and compliance management
controls are properly identified, scoped, scheduled
and performed
•L
everaging state-of-the-art technologies such as
dynamic scoping, scheduling, test and evaluation
workflow, exception and remediation workflow,
management consoles, audit trail and flexible
ad hoc reporting
•G
ain the certainty that comes from visibility into,
control over, and validation of the real-time status
of both standard and nonstandard journal entries,
from preparation to approval to posting
A SIMPLE CONSOLE PROVIDES VISIBILITY
One reason Cadency is such a powerful financial
governance solution: its simple and fluid user
experience. Thanks to an easy console, senior
financial executives gain real-time transparency and
instant visibility to oversee the current status of all
R2R processes and workflow checkpoints.
The Cadency Console also allows all financial close
stakeholders across the organization (and around the
globe) to easily communicate and collaborate, creating
real-time communities across the Office of Finance.
•E
njoy a fully integrated workflow solution for
preparers and approvers
•A
void pitfalls resulting from disparate systems,
missing/inadequate supporting documentation,
improper management approval, and/or lack of
transparency into the impact of late adjustments
Completion — Report, disclose and file with
confidence by:
•P
erform exception management, identify errors,
eliminate “approve after posts” and reduce
processing time
•G
aining total visibility over disclosure management,
to mitigate risk while dramatically improving process
efficiency
•G
ain the transparency and control required to
enhance financial governance
•A
ssessing and verifying financial data from
published results, all the way back through
financial close to reconciliation
Cadency lets you easily track activities across the
entire R2R cycle.
Cadency’s tablet-optimized management console
provides real-time status of R2R checkpoints.
Finally, with Cadency from Trintech, financial
executives have the world’s only financial governance
solution that weaves all Record-to-Report (R2R)
activities into a single, seamless process. The result:
a reinvented, shortened R2R cycle that minimizes
risk, resources and costs, and aligns with a constantly
changing business and regulatory environment.
TRANSPARENCY, GOVERNANCE AND CONTROL
With Cadency, your Office of Finance can finally
establish a repeatable rhythm for the Record-toReport process. That means you can orchestrate all
stakeholders and streamline all process activities,
while measuring and managing the risk profile in
your financial governance model.
being issued, Cadency empowers continuous
process improvements in account reconciliation and
compliance…in financial reporting and XBRL tagging…
and in regulatory reporting, disclosures and filing.
•A
utomating financial disclosures to reduce errors
and shorten the process timeline
The result of this all-in-one, one-of-a-kind solution:
Today’s finance executives can succeed in a changing
environment by exhibiting controlled agility —
“controlled” to ensure the highest level of data
accuracy and integrity in financial close data, and
“agility” to adapt to and meet organizational changes
that mitigate risk, via enterprise-wide:
•C
onnecting all stakeholders in the disclosure/
reporting process — external auditors, legal counsel,
printers, partners, etc. — through a collaborative
“workflow playbook”
•T
ransparency, monitoring your R2R process step
by step, through a real-time console that tracks
workflow, exceptions, KPIs and tasks
While Cadency integrates Certification, Compliance
and Completion, it simultaneously manages two
real-time, risk-mitigating R2R activities that span
across the R2R process: Close and Journal Entry.
• Control to ensure you’re managing those R2R
practices in the right way
Close — Cadency enables you to gain complete
management and audit transparency into the
period-end financial close. You can use a consoledriven management framework to:
A SINGLE VERSION OF THE TRUTH
How does Cadency ensure a single version of the
truth and a compliant close? By spanning across
all R2R activities, including:
•D
riving efficiency through dynamic account
analytics that facilitate a top-down, risk-based
approach to reconciliation
•A
utomating review of reconciliations and
certification for all balance sheet accounts
•U
sing simple templates to standardize and
streamline balance sheet verification
•G
aining needed visibility to ensure compliance
•E
nabling reconciliation controls and reducing
dependency on unmanaged spreadsheets
•R
educing operational costs and improving
internal control
Compliance — Ensure corporate and regulatory
compliance by:
•M
anaging cross-enterprise compliance initiatives,
including SOX, HIPAA, FERC/NERC and more
•C
oordinating security standards such as PCI-DSS,
and other process management initiatives, including
quality control, IT governance and security
•M
anaging corporate social responsibility (CSR)
initiatives such as green and sustainability projects
MANAGE
CLOSE
TRANSACTION SYSTEMS
Certification — Control and automate the general
ledger reconciliation process by:
MEASURE
CERTIFICATION
PROCESS
COMPLIANCE
PROCESS
•P
romote teamwork among dispersed finance
teams (and external auditors) through an advanced
collaboration-and-workflow environment
COMPLETION
PROCESS
JOURNAL ENTRY
STAKEHOLDERS & REGULATORS
MONITOR
•C
ompliance — Ensuring corporate and
regulatory compliance
•C
ompletion — Reporting and disclosing
with confidence
• Identify bottlenecks and communicate potential
issues early and often, reducing the possibility of
missed deadlines and ensuring accurate, complete
financial statements
CADENCY RECORD-TO-REPORT
•C
ertification — Verifying the integrity of
financial performance
•E
asily integrating with your current workflow solutions,
including XBRL tagging, Word, Excel and more
GOVERNANCE THAT SPANS THE R2R PROCESS
• Governance to ensure you’re following the right
R2R practices
Across the entire R2R cycle, from the time a
transaction occurs through financial statements
•S
peeding up the delivery of all regulatory
submissions and supporting documents
SHORTEN TIME CYCLES
•R
educe external audit time and cost by creating
“Close e-Binders,” a final system of record for all
documents and activities to reconstruct the close
•O
rchestrate and manage all system, analytical and
dependent close activities
Journal Entry — Cadency’s fully integrated journal
entry workflow enables you to:
•E
xercise management oversight to take control of
the manual journal entry process
•E
nsuring that your financial governance model
is properly implemented, and that relevant
performance and compliance management
controls are properly identified, scoped, scheduled
and performed
•L
everaging state-of-the-art technologies such as
dynamic scoping, scheduling, test and evaluation
workflow, exception and remediation workflow,
management consoles, audit trail and flexible
ad hoc reporting
•G
ain the certainty that comes from visibility into,
control over, and validation of the real-time status
of both standard and nonstandard journal entries,
from preparation to approval to posting
A SIMPLE CONSOLE PROVIDES VISIBILITY
One reason Cadency is such a powerful financial
governance solution: its simple and fluid user
experience. Thanks to an easy console, senior
financial executives gain real-time transparency and
instant visibility to oversee the current status of all
R2R processes and workflow checkpoints.
The Cadency Console also allows all financial close
stakeholders across the organization (and around the
globe) to easily communicate and collaborate, creating
real-time communities across the Office of Finance.
•E
njoy a fully integrated workflow solution for
preparers and approvers
•A
void pitfalls resulting from disparate systems,
missing/inadequate supporting documentation,
improper management approval, and/or lack of
transparency into the impact of late adjustments
Completion — Report, disclose and file with
confidence by:
•P
erform exception management, identify errors,
eliminate “approve after posts” and reduce
processing time
•G
aining total visibility over disclosure management,
to mitigate risk while dramatically improving process
efficiency
•G
ain the transparency and control required to
enhance financial governance
•A
ssessing and verifying financial data from
published results, all the way back through
financial close to reconciliation
Cadency lets you easily track activities across the
entire R2R cycle.
Cadency’s tablet-optimized management console
provides real-time status of R2R checkpoints.
TRINTECH’S
CLIENTS INCLUDE:
BAE Systems
Blackstone
FOR FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS,
BY FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS
Designed and built by financial professionals for financial
professionals, Cadency leverages the deep financial
governance expertise of Trintech, the leading provider of
software solutions for the Last Mile of Finance.
With offices in Dallas, Silicon Valley, London, Amsterdam,
Paris, Hong Kong and Dublin, Trintech reduces financial
risk for half of the Fortune 50 and nearly 25% of the
Fortune 500, encompassing more than 650 clients and
100,000 users worldwide.
Microsoft
O2
Regis Corporation
RR Donnelley
Yahoo!
TRINTECH’S
PARTNERS INCLUDE:
SAP Certified Solution
Provider
Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner
For more information
[email protected]
Adobe Platinum
Partner
trintech.com
Fujitsu
REINVENT
RECORD-TOREPORT
KPMG
Barnstone
Cube
Grupo In Motion
Spectrum Software
Longview Solutions
Capgemini BPO
HP BPO
Introducing Cadency, the only single financial governance
solution that manages your entire R2R cycle in a single product.
Other BPO
organizations
Resellers
Why is the Last Mile of Finance still so cumbersome and risk-prone?
Because the manual processes and point software solutions to
manage the Record-to-Report process are so disjointed.
That is, until now.
trintech.com