This document discusses Oracle Financial Close Management, a solution to streamline the financial close process. It describes the typical challenges organizations face with the close, including lack of transparency, communication issues, and deficient documentation. Oracle Financial Close Management provides centralized web-based tools to manage all close tasks, including ledger and sub-ledger close, data loading, account reconciliation, and reporting. It features task scheduling, dashboards to monitor progress, and integration with Oracle EPM applications and other systems.