The role of enterprise level CFOs has changed radically over the past decade with both a widening scope of influence and greater responsibilities for helping guide corporate transformation programs and technology choices. Instead of the historic backward-looking role focused primarily on gathering and reporting data, the Office of the CFO is now much more involved in proactively analyzing trends and formulating forward-looking strategies to drive future company results. 

Since the release of new lease accounting standards ASC 842 and IFRS 16 in 2018, companies have taken a variety of approaches to comply, but many are now aiming to optimize their lease accounting processes for efficiency and long-term manageability. It is becoming clear that standalone software and offline spreadsheets cannot provide the level of financial integration needed to go the distance for supporting a robust Comply, Optimize, and Transform journey.

Companies faced with the lease accounting compliance deadlines over the past 2-3 years opted for “quick and easy” standalone or offline approaches that emphasized basic compliance over long-term integration, efficiency, and scalability.

As a result, most of these companies are now grappling with major roadblocks when it comes to managing lease accounting compliance in relationship to overall business goals, especially when it comes to coping with dynamically changing lease portfolios.

One of the biggest shortcomings from taking the standalone solution approach is the narrow focus on cataloging existing lease portfolios and analyzing them against the new compliance criteria. In effect, this is like just taking a static snapshot of a constantly changing environment.

So, how can you overcome these shortcomings related to standalone or offline approaches?

With the upcoming already extended deadline for the adoption of ASC 842, the new lease accounting standard in the US, many companies who have already adopted are struggling with managing the accounting under the new standard in spreadsheets or because they already chose a standalone software but are not happy with the results due to a lack of integration, causing reconciling issues or reporting inaccuracies.

For most companies, real estate represents one of the largest investment and expense categories on their balance sheets and P&L reports.  Regardless of whether their real estate assets are owned or leased, effective management of the real estate portfolio is a key factor for managing bottom line results and achieving business goals.

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As we move into 2021, companies are finalizing their plans, budgets and operational improvement processes for the coming year. One of the key challenges that many organizations face is how best to optimize and integrate their ASC 842 / IFRS 16 compliance within their overall business systems.

“Real-time data” is a very popular term in the world of reporting and analytics. Timeliness of reporting can deliver good returns to the business. Companies reporting in real time are better positioned to do strategic planning and attract investors. 

As a leader in compliance and finance innovation, Bramasol has introduced a new purpose-built CLM Rapid Solution that enables companies like you to quickly get up and running for ASC 842 or IFRS 16 compliance. It leverages the power of the industry’s leading leasing solution, SAP CLM, and combines it with Bramasol’s deep experience to provide a quick start that can get you up and running in 8 weeks instead of months or years and for a price that you can afford.