Benchmarking Accounting Costs

With today’s economic climate and fierce competition, companies today must ensure their accounting operations are competitive in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. A recent Read More

5 Benefits of Automating Accounts Payable

The accounts payable process is crucial in any business, yet it can be very inefficient and sometimes inaccurate. Many businesses still rely on the traditional Read More

Task Automation

Would you like to begin to enjoy the benefits of a four hour work week? Would you like to have more time to do what Read More

Keys to Successful Financial Planning and Analysis

After working with so many finance functions in a wide variety of industries, one common challenge they are constantly facing is how to conduct good Read More

Payables Automation – Everyone can do it

Last week, we met with a rapidly growing software company that was a global leader in their niche.  They continue to grow in the double Read More

Spreadsheets – Duct Tape of Accounting

From the rise of Visicalc in 1979 on the Apple, to Lotus 123 on DOS to Excel on Windows, spreadsheets have become, after the accounting Read More

Getting Data for Decision making – It’s not only the Chart of Accounts

After a very busy 2011 and early 2012, we have begun to notice a common problem appearing now. With many companies seeing their results not Read More

Variance Analysis and Decision Support – The differentiator for the future

As our society becomes more digital and data compilation is becoming close to free, it is becoming more and more clear to our team on Read More

Office Automation System

One of the biggest problems we see at many companies we visit are overworked staff in the back office.  We see many of them are Read More

The “Moment of Insight”

This week, we were presenting our findings to the senior executive team at one of our clients.  As we got deeper into presentation, we got the ‘that Read More

Key Performance Indicators and Causal Relationships

This past week, we met with a client to help them determine what their key performance indicators are in order for them to drive profitable Read More

Creating Business Value

One of the biggest problems we see are people that are not focussed on activities or tasks that continue to add value to their business Read More