Does your business export goods or services? If the answer is “not yet”, then now could be a great time to start.
Exporting offers a number of benefits for businesses, including:
Increased sales and profits
A wider customer base with excellent spending power
A way to increase your...
Published: Feb 14, 2018
If you’ve followed the other three blog posts in this series (don’t worry, there won’t be a quiz), you’ll know I’ve discussed the various elements of financial transformation, why transformation hasn’t happened, transaction processing, and the importance of governance, regulation,...
Published: Feb 28, 2018
Good or bad, disruption has become a common business term that has threatened many traditional organizations.
In this new market, every business function will be tested, with finance facing a kaleidoscope of different growth rates, regulations, reporting, currencies, and tax practices. It will be a major test...
Published: Jun 07, 2017
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
Historiquement les notions de gouvernance, de conformité, de contrôle et d'audit n'ont été pensées qu'après coup dans les modules financiers des logiciels ERP classiques. Ce sujet a longtemps été ignoré à l'occasion de la conception, du...
Published: Dec 13, 2017
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
Businesses need to prepare for the mobility mind shift now — it’s coming quickly, and it has the power to transform everything. Financial services organizations are on the cusp of radical transformation, with some already embracing it.
This report highlights how financial services businesses can...
Published: Sep 01, 2015
Are you a finance leader looking to get on track with digitisation? With insight from over 650 global finance leaders, this report examines the top priorities for financial transformation and provides a valuable road map for successfully redefining the finance function. Download the report now.
Published: Apr 24, 2019
Many people are involved in the invoice process (not just AP!) and it can be hard to keep the ball rolling when there is confusion over who does what. Creating a policy for managing, storing and processing supplier invoices can ensure everyone is on the same page. That means your people spend less time on admin and your...
Published: Aug 31, 2017
Like a stack of spreadsheets drifting in the wind, gone are the days of being constrained to an office environment.
Whether you’re a start-up or a seasoned business, in today’s uber-connected economy, your office is essentially wherever you are. Just five years ago, there were 8.7 billion
connected devices...
Published: May 09, 2018
A recent Sage report, surveying 3,000 small and medium businesses worldwide, revealed that an average of 120 working days per year are spent on administration.
Of the various types of administrative tasks, the biggest cost driver was found to be accounting, representing over 20% of administration time. It needn’t...
Published: May 09, 2018
If you think of the various things that send a CFO’s pulse racing, then governance, compliance, control, and audit will probably rank quite low on that list. Legacy software designers must have formed similar lists because they’ve treated control and governance as afterthoughts, or even irritants, in the financial...
Published: Feb 28, 2018
Sage provides enterprise-level business management solutions for distribution operations; these solutions assists customers with core financial and supply chain management functionality.
Sage commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and objectively examine the potential...
Published: Mar 06, 2018
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Published: Sep 13, 2018