Team Using SEC Reporting Solution Gains Time, Grows CareersBefore adopting Workiva, the company’s manager of financial reporting remembers long hours spent creating and reviewing 10-Qs using desktop-based office software. Only one person could update a document at a time—to avoid issues with version control—so everyone waited their turn before working on their contribution. Staff would work on it until 8:00 p.m. before a filing deadline, a senior team member would review it until 11:00 p.m., and the manager was stuck looking at it until 3:00 a.m. “I was getting a bit frustrated with the process,” the manager said. She wanted to give her team better working hours and still deliver data that the company’s disclosure committee could trust, even when a late journal entry

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