--- title: Webinar Registration - Your Firm Doesn't Need More Staff. It Needs a Better Close description: Learn how AI can streamline month end close, reduce manual work, improve consistency, and increase capacity without adding headcount. image: https://www.woodard.com/hubfs/Your%20Firm%20Doesnt%20Need%20More%20Staff%20It%20Needs%20a%20Better%20Close-1.jpg --- ![ Text reads 'power of process](https://www.woodard.com/hubfs/Your%20Firm%20Doesnt%20Need%20More%20Staff%20It%20Needs%20a%20Better%20Close.jpg) # Your Firm Doesn't Need More Staff It Needs a Better Close. #### Registration page Thursday, August 13, 2026 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern 10:00 - 11:00 AM PT | 11:00 - 12:00 PM MT | 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT --- ## About the Training Event Month-end close delays are often caused by manual categorization, missing documentation, reconciliation backlogs, inconsistent handoffs, and review bottlenecks. This webinar presents a practical framework for identifying and prioritizing those constraints and evaluating where AI-assisted analysis and workflow automation may improve the close process. Participants will examine one-time AI-assisted analysis, repeatable accounting workflows, and close-governance processes. The session addresses the accounting context AI needs, including ledger data, supporting documentation, exception handling, audit trails, and human review and approval. Participants will also apply a five-stage close model; prepare, investigate, resolve, review, and sign off and identify measures for evaluating close-cycle time, documentation quality, review effort, and firm capacity. By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: - **Identify **and** prioritize** some of the biggest common bottlenecks that delay month-end close. - **Describ**e how AI can support one-time analysis, repetitive accounting work, monthly close activities while keeping accountants in control. - **Learn **why AI is most effective when built directly into the general ledger. - **Discover** how AI can standardize workflows, improve collaboration, and increase firm capacity without adding headcount. ---   #### Continuing Professional Education  Woodard Events, LLC (Sponsor ID# 109439) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: [www.NASBARegistry.org](http://www.NASBARegistry.org). Field of Study:  Business Management & Organization - 1 Credit Course Level: Basic Prerequisites: None Advanced Preparation: None Format: Group Internet Based  ![NASBA_CPERegistry_logo_blue_transparent](https://www.woodard.com/hs-fs/hubfs/NASBA_CPERegistry_logo_blue_transparent.webp?width=200&height=178&name=NASBA_CPERegistry_logo_blue_transparent.webp "NASBA_CPERegistry_logo_blue_transparent") ### REGISTRATION FORM Translate » - - [![Woodard](https://www.woodard.com/hubfs/Woodard%20logo%20High%20Res%20Registered.png) ](https://www.woodard.com/) [Terms and Conditions](https://www.woodard.com/terms-and-refunds) [![CompliAssure](https://www.woodard.com/hubfs/Woodard_September2019/Images/footer%20logo%20bottom.jpg) ](https://www.woodard.com/webinar-registration-your-firm-doesnt-need-more-staff.-it-needs-a-better-close#) Explore Our Site - [Membership](https://www.woodard.com/membership-overview) - [Training Events](https://www.woodard.com/webinars) - [Ideal Practice Model](https://www.woodard.com/bookkeeping) - [About Woodard](https://www.woodard.com/about-us) - [The Woodard Report](https://report.woodard.com/articles) Get in Touch - Woodard - 3760 Sixes Rd., Suite 126 Canton, Georgia 30114 - [(404) 857-0700](tel:4048570700) - [info@woodard.com](mailto:info@woodard.com) © 2022 Woodard Events, LLC All Rights Reserved. Woodard, Tech Makeover and Woodard Institute are trademarks of Woodard Events, LLC. All rights reserved. Scaling New Heights is a registered trademark owned by Woodard Events, LLC. Woodard Network and Woodard Groups are trademarks of National Advisor Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Woodard Consulting is a trademark of Woodard Consulting Group, Inc. All rights reserved.