Avista makes complex accounting easy with GL Wand power

For more than 100 years, Avista has been generating power and delivering natural gas and electricity to customers in Washington state. In 2007, before GL Wand, the reports created by Oracle FSG were not usable as created resulting in efficient processes.

Today a growing group of users are enjoying the benefits of GL Wand and Excel4apps' newest product: Budget Wand. The result, users say, is that all accounting and finance operations go faster and smoother.

"Our goal was to make our accounting easier and less complex. With GL Wand and Budget Wand, reports of all types are quicker to generate. We have basically eliminated our human error potential while speeding up processes. We also have given our analysts and accountants a tool to help them find problems and opportunities within our financials far easier than before. Our executives are right on board and can do their own comparisons. They love that."

-Jenny McCauley
Accounting Analyst
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