Finance Department Budgets: How Best to Invest in 2015

Many department heads are familiar with the “spend it or lose it” mentality when it comes to their budgets, but many will agree that over the past few years this has not always been necessary to follow. The recession forced many companies to cut back on spending, squeezing department budgets and depriving them of the funds needed to make improvements. For...

Following on from Linda’s recent post, “Are you too busy to meet your Account Manager?”,  I ask the question, where exactly did the time go?

As technology rapidly progresses it is inevitable that companies find themselves in possession of legacy accounting systems (often dormant) with more than a decade’s worth of transactional data stored within them. Some of these systems exist as a result of a “technological” upgrade, whilst others are collected as a by-product of an acquisition or merger.