The Complete Guide to Close 2026 has covered the full transformation journey from broken manual processes to autonomous execution. Over six chapters, the guide explored diagnosing close problems, understanding modern automation, and implementing platforms that fundamentally change how finance operates.
The Journey So Far
- Chapter 1 provided a benchmark quiz to assess current close maturity and identify starting points.
- Chapter 2 revealed the hidden costs of manual closes: time drains, risk exposure, and strategic opportunities lost when finance teams remain stuck in operational mode.
- Chapter 3 showed what a modern close actually looks like, with real-time data sync, automated reconciliations, and continuous consolidation replacing spreadsheet chaos.
- Chapter 4 walked through specific automation opportunities in reconciliations, intercompany eliminations, variance analysis, and workflow management that transform finance operations.
- Chapter 5 helped evaluate performance management software, distinguishing between tools that organize tasks, AI that assists, and Agentic Performance Management platforms that execute autonomously.
- Chapter 6 provided a practical 30-day implementation roadmap, showing how finance teams deploy automation without IT dependencies or system overhauls.
Now comes the practical application: seeing theory become reality through a finance team that made this exact transformation.
From Theory to Practice
The previous chapters covered what modern close automation makes possible. This webinar shows it working in real organizational context.
Katherine Mejia, Account Executive at Nominal, demonstrates how autonomous agents handle multi-entity consolidation, intercompany eliminations, and month-end close workflows. The session walks through actual platform capabilities, including real-time data sync from ERPs, automated reconciliation and matching, currency translation and consolidation, AI-powered variance analysis, and continuous reporting and drill-down functionality.
The webinar format allows finance leaders to see how Agentic Performance Management operates in practice, understand implementation timelines and requirements, evaluate whether autonomous execution fits organizational needs, and ask questions about specific use cases and scenarios.
Most vendor demonstrations showcase idealized scenarios with clean data. This session focuses on addressing the operational realities that finance teams face: complex entity structures, high transaction volumes, multiple currencies and jurisdictions, audit and compliance requirements, and stakeholder reporting demands.
Watch the Webinar
The on-demand webinar provides concrete examples of how autonomous agents execute the workflows described throughout this guide.
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The Path Forward
The Complete Guide to Close 2026 started with a simple question: where does the close stand today? By this point, the answer is clear. More importantly, what's possible is clear, along with what to evaluate and how to move forward.
The finance organizations winning in 2026 won't be the ones with the biggest teams. They'll be the ones running on Agentic Performance Management, letting autonomous agents execute operations while their talent drives actual business value.
The choice is clear. Continue managing manual processes that consume capacity and delay insights, or deploy autonomous execution that scales without limit.
The transformation starts with a single step. Watch the webinar. Book the demo. Start the conversation.
The close doesn't have to stay broken. The tools to fix it exist today.
Ready to transform your close? Book a Demo with Nominal.
