For our main use case with FloQast, we utilize it for month-end close tracking, reconciliation, and close management, as well as our fluxes.
A specific example of how I use FloQast for month-end close and fluxes is that throughout our close, we use it for our daily sign-up management meeting to see how the team is tracking to meet our deadline for month-end close. We track all of our balance sheet reconciliations and ensure all of the accounts are reconciled timely and accurately, along with having the flux module integrated with NetSuite to perform more automated fluxes.
The best features that FloQast offers are definitely the intuitive dashboard, user-friendly interface, and how easy it is for the team to track all the balance sheet reconciliations.
The dashboard in FloQast is intuitive and user-friendly because it is very easy to display different views if we want to see how the team is doing with a specific area of accounting such as prepays or if we want to filter to how the team is doing on day one, day two, see what is past due, what is late, what is on time, and what is coming up. We can also filter it to a specific team member who needs help, who is on track, or a top performer, so tracking every detail at a very granular level is very helpful for management.
FloQast has positively impacted my organization by helping our month-end close be more streamlined. At my previous company, it helped us go from a 15-day close to a 10-day close and then a 6-day close.
The transition from 15 days to 6 days happened because FloQast helped keep everything organized and centralized, holding team members accountable, and allowing management, team members, and all stakeholders a centralized place for us to store all of our month-end close tasks, ensuring nothing gets missed, ensuring timeliness, completeness, and accuracy.
I think FloQast could be improved, especially their flux module, by having a more powerful feature to allow teams to flux at a more granular level, such as a vendor level detail flux.
I have been using FloQast for about 7 years.
The advice I would give to others looking into using FloQast is that user adoption is key, ensuring every single accounting staff member and management are leveraging the tool because if not everyone is using it, then there is really no point in purchasing this tool. I would rate FloQast a 9 overall.
