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TotalEnergiesTotalEnergies Brings Financial Close onto Sage
TotalEnergies, an energy organization in France, uses Sage Accounting 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 Accounting |
Story
Inside TotalEnergies, record to report used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in energy groups working out of France. Controllers and shared services needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
TotalEnergies uses Sage Accounting from Sage as the working layer for financial close. Sage provides accounting, ERP, and HR software used by small and midsize businesses to run finance and operations. The practical change is simple: record to report has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What TotalEnergies gets from Sage is a durable place to run record to report and a way for controllers and shared services to see the same financial close at the same time.
