Overall impact
C (58)

Commentary

Blackline is an average overall performer. With a 'C' rating of 57.6 for overall impact (58th percentile compared to all companies), Blackline ranks 16th out of 35 industry peers, behind Greenhouse Software, BGSF, Grupa Pracuj and 12 others, and ahead of Silversun Technologies, Ceridian HCM, Vertex and 16 others. On top material causes for Blackline's industry (Software & Services), Blackline performs well in Equal Pay and Opportunity (95.5 score) and Accountable Institutions (83.8) and performs poorly in Free, Secure Flow of Information (22.2 score), Arts and Culture Access (35.6) and Technology Innovation (25.2).
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Company
Employees
1,850
Sector
Information Technology
Industry
Software
Sub-industry
Systems Software
SASB industry
Software & IT Services
Headquarters
Ca, United States
Share classes
BL
Description
BlackLine, Inc. provides cloud-based solutions to automate and streamline accounting and finance operations in the United States and internationally. It offers financial close and consolidation solutions, such as account reconciliations that provide a centralized workspace for users to collaborate on account reconciliations; transaction matching, which analyzes and reconciles individual transactions; task management to create and manage processes and task lists; and financial reporting analytics that enables analysis and validation of financial data. The company also provides journal entry, which allows users to generate, review, and post manual journal entries; variance analysis that offers anomalous fluctuations in balance sheet and income statement account balances; compliance, an integrated solution that facilitates compliance-related initiatives, consolidates project management, and provides visibility over control self-assessments and testing; and smart close for SAP solution. In addition, it offers credit and risk, collection, dispute and deduction, and team and task management, as well as AR intelligence, electronic invoicing and payment, and cash application solutions. Further, the company provides intercompany create functionality that stores permissions and business logic exceptions by entity, service, and transaction type; intercompany balance and resolve, which records an organization's intercompany transactions; and netting and settlement that enables open intercompany transactions, which integrate with treasury systems. Additionally, it offers implementation, optimization, live and web-based training, and support services. The company sells its solutions primarily through a direct sales force to multinational corporations, large domestic enterprises, and mid-market companies across various industries. BlackLine, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.
Material causes
Ethos considers the following causes material for Blackline, based on its industry sub-industry Systems Software. Learn more about material causes in our methodology overview.

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