Story
Disney Parks Standardizes Financial Close on Sage
Disney Parks, a consumer discretionary organization in the United States, uses Sage X3 from Sage to support record to report for controllers and shared services.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Financial close can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for financial close |
| Capability | Record to report stays visible to adjacent teams through Sage X3 |
Story
Consumer Discretionary work at Disney Parks spans more than one site, even when headquarters sits in the United States. Financial close was splitting across regional habits. Controllers and shared services asked for a shared way to run record to report without freezing local judgment.
Sage (Sage X3) is what they standardized on. Sage provides accounting, ERP, and HR software used by small and midsize businesses to run finance and operations. Disney Parks uses it as the system of record for financial close, with controllers and shared services as the primary operators and other groups coming in through the same queue.
Leaders get a picture they can actually walk. Teams get fewer mystery statuses. The story is about operating change, not an unpublished percentage.