Case Study: Brown-Forman cuts board report compilation time with Workiva Wdesk

Brown-Forman cuts board report prep time 87% with Workiva

Brown-Forman, a spirits and wine company, needed a more efficient and collaborative process for producing its critical board of directors report. The existing method was cumbersome, involving multiple disconnected files and a lengthy compilation time. They turned to Workiva and its Wdesk platform to modernize this financial planning and analysis (FP&A) reporting.

By implementing Workiva's Wdesk, Brown-Forman centralized its reporting process, enabling real-time collaboration and automated data linking. This allowed the team to drastically reduce manual compilation work and involve senior management earlier in the review cycle. The measurable result was an 87% reduction in the time needed to compile the board report, dropping from 15 hours to under 2 hours per month, while also producing a more polished and consistent final document.

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