# How Ironwood Pharmaceuticals uses FloQast

**21-day**: “Our FloQast rollout was on a 21-day implementation plan, and it was faster than that”

As published on [floqast.com](https://www.floqast.com/stories/ironwood-pharmaceuticals-finds-perfect-fit-of-functionality-and-simplicity-in-floqast). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-10.

- Company: [Ironwood Pharmaceuticals](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/ironwood-pharmaceuticals.md)
- Tool: [FloQast](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/floqast.md)
- Industry: [Biotech & Pharma](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/biotech-pharma.md)
- Teams: accounting, payroll, equity, accounts payable, treasury, SEC reporting, SOX compliance

## What the story says

Ironwood's corporate accounting team uses FloQast to manage its financial close, including the close calendar, checklist, and SOX compliance tasks, as a layer on top of existing Excel-based reconciliations and its SAP system. It replaced a manual process where status updates and workflows were typed into a shared Excel file.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of FloQast and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, not ours.

> We wanted to start the implementation in early March and complete it by quarter-end," Silver explained. "I could say to our senior management with full confidence that we would have FloQast up and running within a month. And we did.

> FloQast's SaaS solution offered the perfect fit of functionality and simplicity for what we needed to achieve
>
> Ron Silver, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer

Source: [floqast.com](https://www.floqast.com/stories/ironwood-pharmaceuticals-finds-perfect-fit-of-functionality-and-simplicity-in-floqast), captured 2026-10-10.

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-10.

- Checked: the figure 21-day is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals.
- Checked: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals uses FloQast. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-10.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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