Great addition to any Accounting team's tool belt
January 02, 2024

Great addition to any Accounting team's tool belt

Devon Hopkins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • FloQast Close
  • FloQast AutoRec
  • FloQast Flux
  • FloQast Analyze
  • FloQast Connect

Overall Satisfaction with FloQast

Floqast has been an invaluable addition to our month-end close process and allows our remotely distributed team to collaborate and communicate quickly and effectively throughout our entire close cycle - from our first journal entries through our reporting package distribution to management. In addition to the checklist module, the reconciliation functionality allows us to always ensure real-time alignment with our ERP, and documents clean review notes and action items. The flux module helps us ensure we can easily investigate and comment on unexpected results and trends or even compare to our budgets/forecasts. It's a great tool for any finance & accounting team to effectively manage your close, I would strongly recommend!
  • I can easily see at any point in time tasks are still pending completion, what's ready for my review, what reconciliations have been modified and are now out of balance.
  • The analytics section does a great job of highlighting bottlenecks on certain roles/individuals or even on certain days of the close calendar. With ease, we were able to redistribute responsibilities and close on a much more consistent and accurate basis.
  • We've been able to use the Remind functionality quite effectively to obtain unrecorded liability details from key vendors, prompt our engineering team to complete their submissions for capitalized software requirements, and remind spend owners to attach outstanding receipts to credit card transactions.
  • It would be great to see drill down capabilities between account reconciliations/flux analyses that links to our transactional data in our ERP.
  • I would like to see a litte more customization available in the analytics tab to add custom filter drop downs.
  • I believe this is close to being released, but I'd like to see anticipated time commitments on the task level to be able to easily review capacity type reporting/analytics.
  • Floqast has reduced our closing schedule by roughly 15-20% of the time it took us beforehand.
  • The product has been very beneficial for us during audit time when we can easily demonstrate our control workflows on reconciliation and task approvals.
  • I can update our CFO at any point in time how we are trending towards close and can coordinate with finance as to the moment journal entries have been completed
We can set up automated rules to set up which flux items are critical to review, investigate, and respond to based upon dollar or percentage variances. This has been extremely helpful to allow the team to focus more intently on those areas of greater importance and I have noticed that as a result we are getting more thoughtful and detailed analysis on those flux items.
Our auditors were very impressed when we were able to show them our reconciliation documentation and sign-offs and it greatly reduced our time spent on capturing and documenting approvals. We've also incorporated audit workflows into our own process so we can track and assign audit PBC tasks seamlessly during our own field work timelines.
We evaluated BlackLine along with FloQast and ultimately decided to sign up with FloQast. Our team really liked the ability to leverage their existing Excel reconciliation templates that could link to the FloQast user interface. Comparatively, the pre-made reconciliation templates that were demonstrated in BlackLine felt a bit more inflexible and felt like it would invite a longer implementation/conversion timeline.

Do you think FloQast delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with FloQast's feature set?

Yes

Did FloQast live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of FloQast go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy FloQast again?

Yes

I think FloQast is really well suited for most accounting teams that work collaboratively on the closing cycle, but will especially work well for distributed teams that work in multiple time zones. Adoption has really been key for our success in the tool. If your users are committed to marking off items as they complete them, the tool works great. If you can't get members/teams to consistently check-off tasks or reconciliations, it can be a bit challenging to be able to comprehend and analyze the results.

FloQast Feature Ratings

Detailed Audit Trails
9
Reconciliation Automation
9
Close Checklist
10
Customizable Workflows
8