Workiva Features

Offers methods of visualizing data via customizable dashboards, statistical graphs, and charts.

Allows users to customize their own reports according to business needs.

Allows for searchable communication within the tool via notes, checklists, and discussions to ensure clarity between users.

Reflects updates immediately, ensuring users have the most recent data while maintaining records of past performance.

Updates varying factors in real-time, assuring forecasts and inferences are continually made according to the most recent information.

Displays and shares company performance data to increase transparency across the board.

Import trial balance, monthly P&L, balance sheets, and other types of financial data

Define budget structure elements and how they are linked hierarchically

Keeps track of all versions of a budget and allows users to compare versions

Include budgeting formulas to estimate direct and indirect costs, operating and non-operating revenues

Test the potential financial impact of business decisions on revenues and expenses

Users can customize standard budget periods (3, 9, or 12 months)

Consolidate multiple budgets from different departments or business entities

Users with administrative access rights can modify budgets

Workflows are used to define the steps required to alter budgets and who needs to approve changes

Forecasting is based on past transactions and historical financial or operational data

Uses AI algorithms and models to predict future trends and outcomes, based on historical data and patterns

Data from multiple systems can be centralized into a single repository

Financial information can be imported from multiple sources such as spreadsheets, text files, or databases

Provide multiple types of reports such as point-in-time snapshot reports, or year over year

Offers standard financial reports out of the box

Allows users to edit reports and to combine multiple reports

Provides ratings to rank companies based on their ESG programs

Generates reports for existing investors or to attract financing

Creates reports that can be shared with the public, employees, customers, and partners

Creates workflows to assign tasks for audit and inspections, monitor work in progress, timelines, and approvals.

Financial statements and statistical reports (such as KPI) can be assembled into financial packages

Define different types of audits such as regular, ad-hoc, or industry-specific.

Provide rules that can be used to validate audits based on predefined criteria.

Provide out of the box audit templates and forms for various processes and industries.

Auditors can use checklists for multiple processes, both online and offline.

Displays all the changes made during audits, including details such as username, timestamp, or type of change.

Create and maintain a library of regulatory content for compliance purposes.

Ability to maintain regulatory content and documents up to date.

Define and implement corrective and preventive action plans for regulatory change.

Identify various risk factors such as the inadequate use of technology, human factor, or external risks.

Ability to classify risks based on risk type, severity, and custom criteria.

Support for various methodologies and frameworks for risk management.

Monitor risk management performance against goals and objectives.

Analysis that creates business plans outside of finance, including sales, marketing, or HR.

Reports on departmental KPI metrics measured against targets.

Consolidates planning processes across an organization into a single solution.

Delivers APIs and standard integrations with other software systems.

Complies with security and privacy regulations and standards.

Allows users to access the software using mobile devices.

Facilitates software configuration without the need for technical experise.

Assists customes through all the phases of the implementation process.

Provides software users with training courses and learning content.

Delivers customer and technical support, directly or trough partners.

The vendor provides consulting services such as business process reengineering.

Offers standard and ad hoc report templates to demonstrate sustainability data trends over time.

Manages quantitative and qualitative data for environmental, social, and governance activities

Combines data from multiple sources such as software solutions, public websites, and spreadsheets

Uses data from third party sources such as Bloomberg and DowJones

Integrate with GRC software such as GRC Platforms, Audit management, and Policy management

Integrate with financial solutions such as accounting and ERP systems

Integrate with EHS software such as Environmental Health and Safety and Quality Management Systems (QMS)

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Facilitate communications with various stakeholders on ESG initiatives

Help users identify ESG related risks to proactively address them

Evaluate the impact of ESG related risks on the company and its ecosystem

Define and implement strategies to improve ESG initiatives

Provide ESG benchmarking data and competitive analysis functionality

Deliver action items to improve ESG initiatives based on historical data

Use AI or GAI technology to optimize ESG management and reporting

Monitor the performance of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives over time

Build reports around specific compliance requirements and directives such as CSR and CS3D.

Define processes to track and manage a company’s carbon footprint

Provide customizable templates for emissions tracking and decarbonization activities

Ensure compliance with regulations and industry standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol

Include customizable workflows that define who does what and when to track emissions and limit their impact

Allow users to create decarbonization plans aimed at reducing carbon emissions

Monitor decarbonization activities and provide corrective actions to keep the process on track

Gather and analyze carbon emissions data from multiple sources, external and internal

Create forecasts for carbon emissions using historical data and compare them with benchmarks

Provide KPIs and metrics that are specific to carbon accounting and decarbonization

Integrate with enterprise software such as ERP and supply chain management

Integrate with compliance software such as GRC Platforms or ESG reporting

Displays all the changes made during audits, including details such as username, timestamp, or type of change in a centralized repository.

Coordinate and track recommended remediation actions.

Facilitates collaboration between teams and stakeholders through shared workspaces.

Integrates with risk management platforms, GRC tools, and other systems.

Facilitates the creation of audit plans, schedules, and reminders.

Provide out of the box audit templates and forms for various processes and industries.

Provides checklists

Dashboard provides real time or near real time updates and notifications in a centralized location.

Provide information on the performance of the audit activities and processes.

Ensures audits are compliant with industry-specific regulations and standards.

Can generate reports on policy compliance trends using AI.

Uses AI to automate common workflow tasks such as policy creation, distribution, and updates.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Uses AI to ensure the following of rules and creates detailed audit trails which helps compliance and audit preparation.

Uses AI to match transactions across accounts and systems, and flag exceptions and discrepencies.

Generates AI-assisted financial reports and provides thorough analytical insights.