Genius Academy Course Offering

Need a refresher course in ART? You’re in the right place. This session is appropriate for all users and covers the fundamentals of what you need to know as a budding ARTist (get it?). Learn how to:

• Navigate in ART
• Locate accounts
• Prepare reconciliations
• Review and approve reconciliations
• Understand how much of your work the auditors can access

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: All Users
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Your colleagues will fall into a state of spellbound awe as you dazzle them with advanced knowledge of ART’s standard forms. Learn how to:

• Optimize each standard form in ART
• Eliminate Excel reconciliation coversheets
• Appropriately input key reconciliation information to improve transparency and efficiency

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: All Users
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Schedule, complete, and track all month-end and project related tasks with the help of ART’s Task Master. In this session, you will learn how to:

• Create and assign one-time and recurring tasks
• Mass upload tasks
• Complete and review/ approve tasks
• Access and work on tasks in reconciliations

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: All Users
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Explore ART’s multitude of functionalities when it comes to external and internal audit preparation. This session will show you how to:

• Set up the audit role, configure access and restrictions
• Set up PBC and document requests from the auditors and track in ART
• Discuss the benefits and implementation of internal controls and audit-friendly features such as the Reconciliation Control Checklist, Quality Score and Report Sign-Offs to ease audit burden

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: All Users
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Get the most bang for your buck by optimizing all of ART’s features and functionalities. In this session you will learn how to:

• Spot common mistakes and opportunities to apply leading practices
• Enhance your existing process by implementing easy-to-use features
• Improve auditability
• Ensure a top quality close and reconciliation process
• Run helpful reports

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: All Users
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This session will show how you can manage the close and balance sheet reconciliation process in a clean, automated and efficient way, without
getting buried in detail throughout the close. Learn how to:

• Manage using dashboards and drill-downs
• Run reports for targeted insight
• Sign off, download, and/or share key information
• Monitor for quality
• Manage the auditor’s access
• Understand your available configurations in ART

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: Managers and Executives
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Understand the ‘why??’ behind the fluctuations in account balances month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter or year-to-year.  In this session, you will learn how to:

• Create and assign rules with pre-set thresholds to be applied to accounts
• Explain reasons for why unexpected changes in balances occur
• Keep track of historical flux occurrences within accounts

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: System Administrators and all Analysis roles
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Administer ART like a champion! This course is for all system and business administrators. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Review annual settings — capabilities, alerts, periods
• Create and manage users
• Assign and reassign ownership and attributes
• Re-open and reset accounts and tasks
• Handle new accounts
• Upload general ledger, subledger, and other data
• Create and manage task lists
• Review exception reports

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: System Administrators and Business Administrators
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Administer ART like a champion! This course is for all system and business administrators. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Review annual settings — capabilities, alerts, periods
• Create and manage users
• Assign and reassign ownership and attributes
• Re-open and reset accounts and tasks
• Handle new accounts
• Upload general ledger, subledger, and other data
• Create and manage task lists
• Review exception reports

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: System Administrators and Business Administrators
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Still doing the P&L variance analysis in Excel? Move this important exercise into ART through the Variance Analysis module. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Set up thresholds (aka rules) to govern budget to actual / actual to actual comparisons
• Assigning rules, owners and due days to accounts
• Document explanation and enforce workflow

This course is suitable for all admins and users.

Note: Live Q&A is not available in session. But please feel free to reach out to us with your questions at helpme@skystem.com or 914.368.0123.

Audience: All Users
Register here