Learning pathway | Finance

Introduction

Welcome to Parabola 👋

Month-end always comes faster than expected—and finance teams are always expected to do more with less. Between consolidations, reconciliations, and chasing down last-minute entries, there’s rarely time to step back and improve process to ultimately improve visibility and reduce your time to close.

Parabola is built to save you time, automate data cleanup, and speed up your close

Beyond time savings, Parabola simplifies and automates manual workflows, helping you reduce errors and scale processes. Here's how it works: 

Learn about key Parabola functionality

  • Connect to every system in your stack: Whether your data lives in Shopify, ShipHero, NetSuite, or Looker, automatically pull in data from any data source
  • Extract and standardize messy data: Use AI to pull data directly from your email, including details from email bodies and attachments
  • Automate and standardize complex logic: In Parabola, you can do anything you can do in a spreadsheet
  • Integrate AI: Want to use AI, but not sure where to start? Parabola offers steps to standardize, extract, categorize, and transform your data with AI
  • Set up alerts, dashboards, and integrations: Parabola sends your data wherever it needs to go—whether that's an email, Slack message, NetSuite update, or dashboard
  • Document process: Parabola flows become real-time process documentation
  • Learn to build in seconds: Parabola flows are built using plain language. If you can explain your process in words, you can build in Parabola

Automate key processes across finance and accounting

By pulling data from all your tools and automating the cleanup and transformation that usually happens in spreadsheets, Parabola supports processes like:

  • Preparing journal entries based on actuals coming from siloed systems
  • Variance analysis by comparing your forecast vs. actuals instantly
  • Estimating accruals accurately by enabling bottoms-up expense estimates

Plus thousands of additional use cases.

Ready to get started? 

Keep reading for actionable tips, educational resources, building exercises and more to start automating processes quickly.

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