For many organisations, closing the books at the end of a financial period remains a time-consuming, cumbersome and stressful process with late nights for staff and seemingly endless re-checking of information.
In high-growth organisations, where there can be a lack of formal processes, fast-changing structures and...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
Managing your company’s financials is the backbone of your business and is vital to the long-term health and viability of your company. Yet attention to your bottom line often takes a back seat during times of increasing revenues and growth. To continue applying the necessary financial rigor to support rapid growth,...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
Businesses are busy growing right now, and they’re more optimistic than they’ve been in the past 35 years, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Job creation, expansion plans and increased compensation all hit record high levels in October 2018.
If your company isn’t...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
The modern CFO needs to keep up with change—also known as becoming a “strategic business partner”—while still delivering on core accountabilities. But sometimes, it’s tough to focus on becoming a strategic business partner while still doing all this other stuff.
CFOs can cope by creating...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
Planning and budgeting are vital to smart, fact-based business decision-making, but many finance teams are mired in timeconsuming, inefficient processes, using basic tools that deliver questionable results.
For midmarket organizations experiencing or aiming for high growth, inadequate planning and budgeting processes...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
Increasing automation and technological advances such as the cloud and AI are disrupting how UK businesses compete and innovate in 2019.
In this climate of disruption and change, how can CFOs and finance leaders ensure they are at the forefront of digital transformation? How can they elevate the finance team’s...
Published: Apr 01, 2019
Access to B2B-related data is improving, making data-driven decisions and awareness across each organisation widespread. As this awareness drives upward towards CFOs, they are becoming more involved in business processes across the organisation and making practical decisions about the operational futures of their companies. ...
Published: Jun 25, 2019
Fintech startups have led a wave of innovation in the financial sector in recent years. New companies, built on modern technologies, have quickly captured market share from older, more established businesses.
As investment in fintech startups continues to rise, competition is also increasing as companies expand into...
Published: May 31, 2019
Looking to start the evaluation process for a new technology provider? This complete guide for medium-sized organisations walks you through how to prepare for your evaluation and what your company should look for in a vendor, so you can be confident in your search and selection. Read the guide now.
Published: Feb 05, 2019
Information governance may not be your favourite thing. Which is exactly why it should be done efficiently and seamlessly, so that employees can focus on more exciting goals—innovative, business-growing goals.
Ideally you want to enable easy access to content and collaboration tools from any device with the...
Published: Feb 16, 2017
Up to 80% of all time spent on analytics is consumed by preparing data. Data is never perfect and most of the time you need to clean, enrich and join multiple data sets to gain meaningful insight. Many analysts turn to Excel to perform these data preparation functions which can take hours or even days.
Datawatch...
Published: Nov 29, 2017
Learn why a new approach is needed.
Read this whitepaper, “A New Approach to Audit and Control in Enterprise Software”, and discover more about the changing landscape of control and governance. Learn how rethinking technology can be the touchstone to separation of duties, transparent business processes...
Published: Mar 16, 2018
In today’s demanding regulatory environment, effective compliance risk management is a smart – indeed, and essential – business investment. At the same time, no company wants to spend more time, effort, or money on compliance than it “needs” to. How can leaders determine the company’s...
Published: Nov 01, 2013
How does your business manage travel, expense and invoice processes today? Do you have total visibility into this spend? We asked 500 UK finance leaders from businesses of all sizes about their employee spend management practices. The research revealed that despite some process improvements, there are still a number of...
Published: Nov 01, 2017