Business Classification:
Partner Type: Solution Provider
Solution Focus: 

F.H. Black & Company Incorporated (FHB) brings nearly 30 years of experience and more than a thousand successful project completions, to every client engagement. They enable public sector finance, budget, and audit departments across North America to improve and automate their most time-consuming, monotonous, and dreaded business processes.

FHB begins each prospective engagement by interviewing the client’s team and reviewing their current processes. They then collaborate with them to redesign those processes—choosing, customizing, implementing, and supporting the best enabling technology 

By incorporating Their time-tested proprietary data model, they ensure their clients not only have the best available software but a comprehensive solution to meet their needs. FHB’s principal consultants are all CPAs with public sector experience, making them uniquely qualified to understand our clients’ processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

To request a quote, email fhblack@vertosoft.com or fill out a form here.

There are no available contracts at this time. Please check back again soon for updates.

Brochures:

• Workiva Health Check – Need to evaluate your use of Workiva to see what you could be doing better?
• Workiva 101: Beyond the Basics – Want to Take your Workiva skills to the next level? Take the Workiva: Beyond the Basics training.
• Workiva + Adra – FHB has developed an integration tool that will allow you to reap the combined benefits of Workiva and the Trintech Adra Suite of Solutions.

Success Stories:

• City of Houston and Houston Airport System – By partnering with FHB for ACFR process improvement, the City of Houston and Houston Airport System reaped the benefits of concurrent implementations.
• School District 83 – Learn how FHB helped School District 83 focus on higher-level work—saving time, simplifying steps, and reducing errors.
• City of Torrance – The City of Torrance, California was seeking a new approach to audit management. FHB stepped in to help improve and automate their processes using Workiva Audit Management Software.
• Deschutes County – Deschutes County reduced its budget book preparation time by 60-65% in year one and anticipate greater efficiency gains in the coming years. Learn how they made massive efficiency gains with only moderate guidance.
• Chicago Public Schools – Chicago Public Schools saved hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars in their Annual Comprehensive Financial Report preparation costs. We interviewed them to learn more.
• City of Fort Wayne – The city of Fort Wayne reduced their budget book preparation time by 300 hours, that’s 75%! This is how they did it.

Thought Leadership:

• Discovery as a Foundation for Success – Learn why discovery sessions are so important, who should attend, and what should be discussed.
• Change Management: An Introduction – Learn about organizational change, why it’s particularly hard in the public sector, why it’s important to manage it, and how to do so effectively.
• ERM Toolbox – Why Do I Need Risk Appetite and Tolerance Statements? – Risk appetite and tolerance statements help align individual and organizational tolerance for consistent risk response.
• Lipstick on a Pig: 6 Spreadsheet-based Reporting Tool Flaws – Annual Comprehensive Financial Reporting tools based on spreadsheets are all the rage. Don’t overlook their considerable weaknesses.
• Spreadsheets vs. Databases: How to Weigh the Tech Benefits – When & why should you upgrade from a spreadsheet to a database-driven application? The technological differences are significant & shouldn’t be overlooked.
• Is Self-Implementation Right for You? – To implement technology as inexpensively as possible many governments consider self-implementation. How do you know if this is right for your organization?

Webinars:

• Fundamentals of Managing Public Sector Risk – Protect your organization by identifying and keeping tabs on crucial risks before they become a crisis. Learn how and why to implement risk management processes for public sector organizations that do not have them; and how to improve existing processes for those that do.
• Government Financial Reporting Automation with Workiva – Automate your Annual Comprehensive Financial Report and other Financial Reports with Workiva’s cloud platform for unparalleled results.
• Assessing & Selecting Reporting Automation Solutions for Government Finance – This webinar will run through a checklist of the most important criteria to consider when selecting a financial reporting automation solution.
• Modernizing the Finance Department – Reconciliations, Robots & You – This webinar focuses on reconciliations, exploring the varying types, common issues, the manual act of reconciling, and solutions that automate the process.

Trainings:

• Workiva 101: Beyond the Balance – Online Fundamentals of Workiva training for government, corporate, education and public practice users.
• Workiva 201: Advance Data Management – Master your Workiva data in this live, hands-on, CPA-led course designed for government, corporate, education and public practice users.
• Enforcing Internal Controls to Manage Risks – Take your internal controls to the next level with this online course. Designed for professionals in local government, this course explores best practices for internal controls, controls for the accounts payable process, key financial control points, basic policies related to the disbursement of funds, and more.
• Internal Controls – Risks, Control Activities & Monitoring – Take your risk management to the next level with this online course. Designed for professionals in local government, this course explores risks, control activities, and controls monitoring using real-world examples.

Contact
For more information about F.H. Black & Company, please contact:

F.H. Black & Company
Number: (571) 707-4130
Email: fhblack@vertosoft.com