Global economic growth forecasts have been revised downwards almost every year since the financial crisis, with a lack of growth engines, fiscally hampered governments, and the preceding overinvestment all playing a part in establishing this pattern. Despite the sluggish growth environment, global corporate failure rates...
Published: Jun 02, 2017
The way we’re able to manage our employee expenses has been transformed. Organizations are no longer reliant on the old paper-based management processes – slow, costly and inefficient. We now have a new generation of digital tools which allow our finance teams to easily process, manage and control employee...
Published: Mar 08, 2018
The average supplier invoice ties up 15 people on its journey across your company.
Take a look at the top challenges your business is likely to face without streamlined processes in place and see how companies of all sizes can step off the supplier invoice merry-go-round.
Published: Jul 25, 2016
With the threat of fines, back payment of arrears and potential prosecution – compliance is one area of expense management you simply can’t afford to get wrong. But while the pressures to meet external rules and regulations have increased, so has the power of digital expense management systems to effectively...
Published: Mar 08, 2018
Sage provides an enterprise-level business management solution for manufacturing operations that assists customers with the entire process: from financial management to supply chain management and production management.
Sage commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and...
Published: Mar 06, 2018
Running your own business is rewarding. But let’s be honest, it’s also a challenge.
Staying on top of industry trends, being at your clients’ beck and call, finding new clients, juggling meetings, keeping track of cash flow and filing your tax returns.
They’re all competing for your time...
Published: May 31, 2018
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
Que faut-il faire pour développer une croissance rentable ? Les recherches de Chris Zook de Bain & Company révèlent que les entreprises prospères réalisent une croissance durable pour 3 raisons surprenantes.
Dans ce livre blanc, Chris Zook présente les causes de la...
Published: May 22, 2018
Businesses today must keep pace with unprecedented change. Some can react quickly, while others struggle. What separates the winners from the losers?
“The New Game Plan for Strategic Planning” is the product of HBR’s in-depth research. The report includes interviews with industry experts, analysis...
Published: Jun 07, 2017
The potential of big data is nothing new to marketers. The realisation that ever-increasing amounts of customer generated information can have a massive and positive impact on marketing has now coalesced into the concept of the Single Customer View (SCV) and the vision that marketers can truly understand their customers...
Published: Nov 26, 2012
At Concur, we receive a lot of questions about the best way to audit expense claims. Often the approaches to audit vary greatly by industry and company culture. It doesn’t have to be confusing.
In this report, we hope to provide a clear perspective that can help every business identify ways to improve their...
Published: Nov 01, 2017
Increased regulatory focus and rising interest rates mean lenders need to revisit their measures of affordability ahead of changes. Accurately assessing both customers’ affordability and suitability are essential requirements for all lenders who wish to extend credit responsibly whilst minimising their risk exposure....
Published: Sep 09, 2014
The results of the global 2017 FSN survey, "The Future of the Finance Function", are in. This complimentary survey, sponsored by Workday, provides expert insight from more than 800 senior finance professionals worldwide.
The survey explores the challenging market conditions facing CFOs. The results reveal...
Published: Mar 16, 2018
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