Accelerate your BlackLine knowledge and maximize the impact of your BlackLine solutions. BlackLine University Day is a full-day learning experience available exclusively for BlackLine customers on the first day of BeyondTheBlack.
Choose your learning journey with a wide selection of courses and workshops—from interactive and hands-on classes to product overviews and deep dives—and take home practical, actionable knowledge you can immediately apply at your organization. Attendees can earn up to 6 CPE/CPD credits through BlackLine University Day. Space is limited, so secure your spot today!
Get hands-on training with BlackLine experts.
Address internal and IT controls from a company and audit perspective.
Discover process improvement strategies.
Understand interrelationships within BlackLine roles.
Earn CPE credits to advance your career.
Get BlackLine certified with complimentary access to certification exams.*
*BlackLine University Day attendees can earn one (1) voucher to take an online specialization exam (a $300 value) by attending all courses within one of the following tracks: Financial Close: Fundamentals, Financial Close: Account Reconciliations, Financial Close: Account Reconciliations Administration, Financial Close: Advanced Journal Entry, or Financial Close: Transaction Matching.
Attendees may sign up for any session in each time block.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
This instructor-led, hands-on course provides a comprehensive overview of the Studio360 Platform, focusing on Orchestrate and highlighting its benefits and components. Participants will learn to build and activate the month-end close process, ensuring efficient and effective execution.
Learning Objectives:
Examine the key features and benefits of the Studio360 Platform.
Develop a month-end close process using Orchestrate.
Learn to preview, activate, rollout, and execute the process.
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM PT
This course highlights Studio360’s Integrate and Visualize top features including seamless data integration, automated data workflows, data transformation, mapping, and interactive dashboards. Participants will learn to enhance data consistency, improve efficiency, and ensure data accuracy across systems as well as view dynamic and insightful visualizations that enhance data analysis and decision-making.
Learning Objectives:
Achieve seamless integration with ERP systems and external applications.
Apply custom data mappings and transformation rules for accurate and consistent data integration.
Explore interactive dashboards to visualize data in various formats.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
Join this interactive session to experience how the core BlackLine platform serves as the foundation for building solutions across the record-to-report (R2R) process, going beyond product-level solutions to support end-to-end, period-over-period processes with enhanced visibility and controls. Delve into financial statement preparation and consolidation account review use cases. This session includes demonstrations and hands-on activities.
Learning Objectives:
Identify how the comprehensive BlackLine solution meets the need for a comprehensive financial review process.
Describe how the core BlackLine platform forms the base for building solutions across record-to-report (R2R), going beyond product-level solutions.
Step through the top two significance use cases that serve key stakeholders in the Office of the CFO: Financial Statement Preparation and Consolidation Review.
12:00 – 3:00 PM PT
Join us for an engaging session on BlackLine's future-ready financial platform, Financial Reporting Analytics (FRA). With BlackLine FRA, teams can consolidate their financials, create financial statements, perform organization-wide analysis, and ensure the completeness, accuracy, and contextual depth of financial results with the context that is prepared by entity and regional areas. This session combines lecture and demonstrations with interactive activities.
Learning Objectives:
Generate on-demand financial statements, see AI-generated insights, and analyze consolidation accounts and variances.
Discuss holistic approach of FRA across R2R, including visibility into financial close activities leveraging variance automation.
Conduct financial statement sign-off as the final checkpoint in delivering accurate, reliable financials.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
This hands-on course is the first in a two-part series that provides the knowledge required to understand and use BlackLine’s platform of Financial Close solutions: Task Management, Transaction Matching, Journal Entry, and Account Reconciliations.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the value of each Financial Close product.
Navigate basic functions and features for each Financial Close product.
Identify data movement within the platform.
12:00 - 3:00 PM PT
This course is the second in a two-part series that provides the knowledge required to understand and use basic functions of BlackLine’s platform of Financial Close solutions: Task Management, Transaction Matching, Journal Entry, and Account Reconciliations.
Learning Objectives:
Complete key processes in Tasks, Transaction Matching, Journal Entry, Account Reconciliations.
Use the platform to finalize/certify Financial Close processes.
Review completion status across the platform.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
This course is the first in a two-part series that provides the knowledge required to understand the design and use of Account Reconciliations Templates and Items. Part 1 focuses on the critical elements of templates that help to organize and automate key components of your reconciliations and bring them to life.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the use of templates and items.
List critical elements of a reconciliation template.
Identify template elements.
12:00 - 3:00 PM PT
This course is the second in a two-part series that provides the knowledge required to perform Account Reconciliations Templates and Items functions. In Part 2, we will introduce and use several key templates found in BlackLine. You will also learn how to design and build your own template.
Learning Objectives:
Define and use key templates such as Subledger, Amortizable, Accruable, and Bank templates.
Change an existing template.
Design a “Build Your Own” template.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
In this hands-on, instructor-led workshop, participants will learn essential administration activities in support of system design and ongoing maintenance.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the various data import mechanisms and when to use each one.
Design and maintain foundational settings, such as organizational structure, custom frequencies, and dates.
Manage users leveraging leading practices.
12:00 - 3:00 PM PT
Enroll in this hands-on course to continue your Account Reconciliations Administration learning journey. You'll dive deeper into administration functions, such as auto-certification settings and rules, item settings, and reconciliation grouping.
Learning Objectives:
Manage manual and auto-certification settings and thresholds.
Add accounts to groups with auto-grouping.
Locate troubleshooting resources and to-do checklists.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
This course is designed to provide BlackLine Administrators with hands-on experience working with the key tabs of the Data Import Template and how it is used to import data into BlackLine for the Account Reconciliations product.
Learning Objectives:
Identify key tabs and columns within the Data Import Template.
Navigate to resources essential to the user of the Data Import Template.
Complete the steps to import data for required tabs.
12:00 - 3:00 PM PT
Dig deeper into BlackLine Reporting in this instructor-led, interactive course. Learn about the three categories of risk and how to provide meaningful metrics to help drive better business results. You will have multiple opportunities for hands-on practice, working with a variety of reports and categories.
Learning Objectives:
Refine reporting data with tools such as the Visualization feature, filters, and data aggregation.
Create roll-forward reports.
Develop risk assessments.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
This course provides the knowledge required to understand, design, and use BlackLine’s Journal Entry solution. Through demonstrations and hands-on activities, you'll learn how this comprehensive solution centralizes and automates the entire journal entry process, including journal creation, validation, review, and posting.
Learning Objectives:
Explain BlackLine Journal Entry and its benefits.
List the key components of the journal process.
Create a journal and enhance existing journals.
12:00 - 3:00 PM PT
In this hands-on, instructor-led workshop, participants will learn essential Journal Entry Administration activities, providing a framework for optimizing your organization’s processes.
Learning Objectives:
Configure user access.
Determine relevant Journal Entry settings.
Define Journal Masters and Automated Journal Definitions.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
In this hands-on instructor-led workshop, learn how to create Journal Masters from an existing journal entry and integrate with Task Management and Account Reconciliations to have current accounting done in the current period.
Learning Objectives:
Create Journal Entry Masters.
Add Journal Master to a task.
Add child journal to items in Account Reconciliations.
12:00 - 3:00 PM PT
In this hands-on instructor-led workshop, learn how to create an Automated Journal Definition in order to optimize your processes and reduce time spent on journal preparation.
Learning Objectives:
Create Automated Journal Definitions.
Maintain a dynamic setup.
Explain grouping and summarizing.
8:00 - 11:00 AM PT
This course provides demonstrations and hands-on activities to help you understand and use BlackLine’s Transaction Matching solution, which provides a framework to categorize, identify, enhance, and compare transactions in BlackLine.
Learning Objectives:
Define BlackLine Transaction Matching and its benefits.
Match transactions in Reconciliations.
Identify and describe Pass Rules.
12:00 - 3:00 PM PT
Continue your Transaction Matching journey with this hands-on course for administrators who play a key role in optimizing the high-volume reconciliation process by unifying data using business-defined rules to compare data sets and apply automation.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the matching process flow.
Download data sources.
Build and review match sets.