Municipal finance teams face rising pressure. Learn how stronger financial reporting improves capacity, decision-making, and long-term resilience.
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Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in systems like MatrixCare to improve care delivery, streamline operations, and support compliance across facilities. But for many finance teams, there’s still a gap. While clinical workflows are well supported, financial reporting often depends on manual processes—exporting data, updating spreadsheets, and distributing reports across multiple locations with limited visibility into performance. That gap
Municipal finance leaders don’t need to be told that year-end is demanding. Treasurers, CFOs, and Directors of Finance are expected to close quickly, support the audit, prepare PSAB-compliant financial statements, reconcile budget-to-actual differences, and respond to council and leadership questions—all while operations continue and service expectations keep rising. This pressure is not just an accounting issue. It
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When Your ERP Changes, Reporting Becomes the Risk Hedberg ERP reaching end-of-life is forcing many finance teams into a transition they didn’t plan. Most of the attention naturally goes to choosing the next system. Steelcase has identified Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and NetSuite as their primary choices. Vivid Reports is fully integrated with both options. Both are capable platforms and both can support growth. But there’s a quieter
ERP transitions are often framed as a step forward. Better systems, cleaner data, more control. But for finance teams, the experience during transition is rarely that simple. Reporting still needs to happen on schedule. Month-end doesn’t wait. Stakeholders still expect clear, reliable numbers. Yet during an ERP change, the systems that support that reporting are in flux. That
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If your organization relies on Microsoft Dynamics GP, you’ve likely heard the clock ticking. Microsoft is winding down mainstream support, the urgency to move off GP is greater than ever. For many finance leaders, that “when” is now. But moving from GP to Business Central (or any modern ERP) is no small task—including reporting. You’re
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As a finance leader, your role extends far beyond reporting. You’re guiding strategy, managing risk, and enabling decision-making across the business. In this context, how you distribute financial reports is no small task—it’s a key capability that impacts transparency, security, and agility. Here’s a streamlined guide to modernizing your report distribution process. 1. Keep Pace with Expanding Regulations
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Supporting finance leaders with smarter, audit-ready reporting solutions. As a municipal finance leader, you’re already navigating a complex landscape of financial regulations, political expectations, and resource constraints. Your team is responsible for ensuring compliance with Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAS), preparing annual budgets, financial statements, and variance reports, managing grant and infrastructure fund reporting, and supporting
As a finance leader, you live at the intersection of strategy and precision. You need financial reporting tools that don’t just work, they need to work efficiently, scale with your business, and empower fast, confident decision-making. For years, Microsoft’s Management Reporter (MR) has been the go-to solution for many mid-sized organizations running on Dynamics GP.
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The transportation and logistics industry powers global commerce, but behind the scenes, executive and financial teams grapple with complex challenges—managing rising fuel costs, coordinating multi-entity operations, and meeting strict compliance requirements, to name a few. At Vivid Reports, we help companies streamline reporting and gain deeper financial insights. In this blog, we highlight key best
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