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title: Budget for Better Accounting in 2025 with Help Scout CFO Shawna Fisher
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Recorded Webinar

# Budget for Better Accounting in 2025 with **Help Scout CFO** Shawna Fisher

2025 is upon us. Now is the moment to address the underlying issue that slows down every close, obscures revenue insights, makes audits painful, and crushes your team. It’s your data.

You can budget for headcount again, and challenge your team to do better Excel management – again. But before you roll out that same playbook, hear how Shawna plans her budget differently to enhance capacity, accelerate monthly close, and empower Accounting to be more strategic.

Watch now to learn:

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Why your accounting data is the problem, not your workflow

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How CFOs and Controllers can collaborate to budget for better outcomes

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How Help Scout uses Leapfin to find and fix revenue inconsistencies, stay audit-ready, and answer hard business questions

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Bonus: A critical tip if you're considering investing in AI for accounting

## Featured Speakers

### Ray Lau

Co-founder and CEO 

![logo_leapfin_deep-galaxy](https://www.leapfin.com/hubfs/accents/logo_leapfin_deep-galaxy.svg)

### Shawna Fisher

CFO 

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## See the survey results talked about in this session

Discover what your accounting and finance peers said about top current challenges, opportunities, where they want to use automation next, and more.

[ See the Full State of Accounting Automation Report Now ](https://www.leapfin.com/state-of-automation-for-revenue-accounting)

Leapfin is the trusted AI infrastructure that powers your entire record-to-report process at scale. Leapfin helps companies accurately account for and report on revenue by standardizing large volumes of siloed, inconsistent operational data into usable, GAAP-ready financials and automating manual accounting tasks. 

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