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
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
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
Segmentation has always formed the very basis of marketing, allowing the right products to be tailored to the right people. Or so we thought… Putting people in boxes or categories is not just a marketing past time, it is human nature. We construct things as being coherent, having category and entity to them. That’s...
Published: Sep 13, 2012
This whitepaper sets out the upstream O&G environment in the Middle East North Africa region, the M&A issues that face investors looking to transact here, and how these are being managed through the screening, diligence and valuation phases of the transaction.
Published: Sep 12, 2014
Managing your company’s financials is the backbone of your business and is vital to the long-term health and viability of your company. To continue applying the necessary financial rigour to support rapid growth, the accounting department needs the right tools to most efficiently do their job.
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Published: Nov 06, 2015
To grow revenues, financial services companies are looking to win and retain customers with better customer service, and to expand market penetration through national or international expansion. At the same time, they need to curb losses by improving bad debt recovery. The regulatory scrutiny under which companies like...
Published: Mar 18, 2012
When was the last time you upgraded your ERP system? Not just patched, fixed or tinkered with it - but implemented a substantive upgrade that enabled real business innovation, generated excitement and unleashed a wave of ideas and productivity from your users?
This report looks at the following eight problems...
Published: Nov 06, 2015
Businesses most often implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems because they want to integrate and manage disparate business processes with a single point of control. While an ERP system provides a framework for achieving business process efficiency, simply implementing one may not be sufficient to achieve all...
Published: Oct 29, 2012