CHICAGO, September 3, 2025 — BDO USA, one of the nation's leading accounting and advisory firms, announced it has entered a strategic partnership with BlackLine, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled, cloud software that automates and helps enhance financial close and accounting processes. This collaboration expands BDO’s finance transformation capabilities, deepening its ability to support clients as they look to consolidate disparate enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, adapt internal operations to support rapid growth, and unlock new efficiencies.
This collaboration will enable BDO to help clients leverage BlackLine’s platform to strengthen internal controls, improve visibility across financial operations, and streamline Record-to-Report processes. BDO’s implementation team includes former CFOs and controllers with hands-on experience leading strategic BlackLine deployments in complex, global organizations across industries.
“BDO’s position as a leader in accounting and finance transformation is a natural complement to BlackLine’s market-leading end-to-end platform”, said Michael Otto, SVP Global Alliances & Channels at BlackLine. “Together, we’ll deliver measurable outcomes for our mutual clients as they advance toward AI-powered, future-ready finance operations.”
BDO provides end-to-end support across the entire BlackLine journey – from initial assessment and solution design through implementation and ongoing optimization initiatives. The firm’s approach is tailored to each client’s goals and balances both the technical and human aspects of change management to help ensure sustainable transformation.
Learn more about BDO’s finance transformation services.
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BlackLine (Nasdaq: BL), the future-ready platform for the Office of the CFO, drives digital finance transformation by empowering organizations with accurate, efficient, and intelligent financial operations.
BlackLine’s comprehensive platform addresses mission-critical processes, including record-to-report and invoice-to-cash, enabling unified and accurate data, streamlined and optimized processes, and real-time insight through visibility, automation, and AI. BlackLine’s proven, collaborative approach ensures continuous transformation, delivering immediate impact and sustained value. With a proven track record of innovation, industry-leading R&D investment, and world-class security practices, more than 4,400 customers across multiple industries partner with BlackLine to lead their organizations into the future. For more information, please visit blackline.com.
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