Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik is named a Leading Vendor in the BARC Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting Survey 26

Wolters Kluwer’s CCH Tagetik has been recognized as a Leading Vendor in the BARC Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting Survey 26. A leading-edge financial planning, world-class consolidation, and trusted regulatory solution, CCH Tagetik scored a total of 7 top-ranks and 14 leading positions within the peer group Enterprise Deployments. It is atop ranked in Vendor Support, Self-Service, and User Experience, underscoring the importance of practicality and adoption alongside advanced functionality. 

The annual survey, based on extensive customer feedback, evaluates financial consolidation product selection and usage across 25 KPIs including User Experience, Vendor Support, and Functionality. The recognition reinforces CCH Tagetik’s focus on helping finance organizations reduce close complexity, improve confidence in reported results, and extend governed processes into adjacent areas such as ESG and regulatory reporting. 

This recognition reinforces why finance leaders at more than 2,000 enterprises worldwide trust CCH Tagetik as their unified platform for finance. They need a system that can handle today’s complexity and stay ahead of what’s next, without locking them into costly customization. With agentic AI technologies, built-in expertise, and out-of-the-box scalability, CCH Tagetik delivers immediate time-to-value and a foundation that grows with the business. 

Highlights from BARC’s The Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting Survey 26

The Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting Survey 26 shows that users value CCH Tagetik for, among other things, vendor support and the user experience. 100% of surveyed users improved software user satisfaction with CCH Tagetik.

• Unified platform: Consolidation and close, planning, ESG and regulatory reporting, and corporate tax on shared data with built-in controls. 
• Fewer handoffs: Consistent views across processes to reduce reconciliations and manual work. 
• Governed intelligence: Embedded AI capabilities designed for explainability, auditability, and trust. 

“User feedback highlights the solution’s ability to support modern financial close and consolidation requirements while extending into adjacent processes such as ESG and regulatory reporting,” said Dr. Christian Fuchs, Senior Analyst at BARC. “Consistently strong ratings for vendor support and self-service further reinforce CCH Tagetik’s position in the market.” 

Finance teams are under growing pressure to close faster, report with greater confidence, and respond to expanding regulatory and disclosure demands, often while operating across fragmented systems and manual workarounds. At the same time, CFOs are demanding clear returns from AI. Wolters Kluwer’s Future Ready CFO Report 2026 found that 41% of senior finance leaders cite cost vs. ROI as their leading concern related to AI adoption.  

With embedded Expert AI at its core, CCH Tagetik transforms finance data into intelligence, automating processes, improving accuracy, and proactively highlighting risks and opportunities. Its data-centric architecture allows organizations to modernize finance at their own pace while preserving control, consistency, and trust in their numbers. 

The Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting Survey ’26 is based on responses from 600 financial consolidation software users worldwide, collected between September and November 2025. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive surveys of its kind and assesses solutions using peer feedback across key measures including usability, vendor support, and functional capability.