To ensure a successful financial close, CFOs at large firms must time subsystem closes precisely and extract income and expense estimates from line-of-business executives while dealing with demanding new regulations and legacy reporting applications. With all of this complexity to juggle, it's no wonder that many CFOs feel like the ringmaster of a monthly circus act.

Read this Forrester Research report to learn why:

• App portfolio complexity is (only partly) to blame for untamed closing processes
• Application development and delivery professionals must work closely with finance to make improvements
• Forrester recommends leveraging automation to tame your financial close and consolidation circus act
• And more!