Case Study: Beauty Company saves 15–20 hours and modernizes financial reporting with Workiva Wdesk

Wdesk Transforms Beauty Firm’s Financial Reporting

A mid‑sized beauty company’s finance and accounting teams were juggling at least three different software tools and spending hours manually verifying and consolidating data for financial statements, quarterly and year‑end reports. Review cycles were cumbersome—paper copies, handwritten comments and repeated data entry increased the risk of errors and slowed the process.

The company adopted Wdesk to link data across documents and move reviews into a collaborative cloud environment with electronic commenting and a complete audit trail. The change cut 15–20 hours from one round of financial statement word‑processing, shaved about a day off a 100‑page monthly management report (and 4–6 hours from presentation publishing), ensured consistent, up‑to‑date figures, and freed the team to perform more value‑added analysis.