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24 Apr 2012Thomson Reuters

Today’s featured story comes from The Cheesecake Factory (video below). After being over-reliant on manual data entry and time-consuming processes, like balancing the provision in Microsoft® Office Excel, this tax department turned to automation to streamline their compliance process.

“Balancing the provision in spreadsheets is usually the cause of all my late nights in January, and can take me up to a week. By doing the entire provision in ONESOURCE Tax Provision, I was able to save a week during year-end and not have to worry about getting the journal entry to balance in Excel.” – Michelle Nachman, Senior Tax Manager, The Cheesecake Factory

Michelle’s Year End Best Practice Tip of the Day:

When asked what she’d want other companies to learn from her process, Michelle shared:

“The provision can be done with minimal to no data entry to ensure accuracy of information. We use the Active Workpapers module of ONESOURCE Tax Provision, to bring in all of our adjustments which makes the entire process much quicker and easier.”

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This post originally ran on our ONESOURCE Blog.