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
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
Making Tax Digital (MTD) is a key part of the government’s plans to make it easier for individuals and businesses to get their tax right and keep on top of their affairs as well as transforming HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) into a world leading, digital tax authority.
This is one part of a vital journey the...
Published: Aug 06, 2018
Data wrangling is the process of cleaning and unifying messy and complex data sets for easy access and analysis.
With the amount of data and data sources rapidly growing and expanding, it is getting more and more essential for the large amounts of available data to be organized for analysis.
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Published: Nov 29, 2017
As modern finance professionals, we face the most challenging conditions for decades as we strive to be better business partners.
The "Future of Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting" 2017 FSN Survey, in collaboration with Workday, explains how to deliver dependable business forecasts, optimise...
Published: Mar 16, 2018
For the past twenty years Experian has been working closely with retailers, tracking the transformation of this industry. Without a doubt, these are challenging times for retailers, with the last two years in particular having given us a series of gloomy news stories. But it is also the case that new technologies, when...
Published: Mar 10, 2011
Looking for a trusted partner in financial management who has what it takes to lead your organisation today and into the future? Get an analysis of the market, key recommendations for evaluating vendors, and more. Download your complimentary copy of Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites.
Published: Sep 13, 2018
Accounts Payable (AP) teams are under more pressure than ever before. The business expects them to process greater volumes of supplier invoices while providing more strategic data and direction. How can AP achieve higher levels of efficiency to free up valuable time and resource?
We produced this 10-step guide to...
Published: Jan 11, 2017
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
This discussion paper examines four of the most material impacts on customer retention and offers some solutions on how to tackle customer churn effectively.
Published: Feb 07, 2009
Excel remains the most widely used analytics tool in the world, however business users continue to be overwhelmed with the task of joining and blending disparate sources of data for their analysis.
They need trusted data sets in a timely fashion, and struggle to reduce the resources focused on ensuring data quality...
Published: Nov 29, 2017
Globalisation, increasing competition, the constant need to expand revenue bases while cutting costs— aka doing more with less—are among the many changes significantly impacting industries such as distribution, manufacturing, and services.
If that’s also true of your business, then it may be...
Published: Feb 12, 2018
Segmentation is a powerful tool to help achieve your business strategy and drive higher value to your brand. ‘Sure’, I hear you say, ‘we all know that’, and you’ll probably have some form of segmentation in your business today; but is it really effective? Has it been built the best way drawing...
Published: Jul 14, 2010