What's getting the finance industry excited? What's getting the finance industry excited? A Finance Director's view of Accountex Blog author (CD) / Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Accountex is the UK’s biggest accountancy exhibition and conference with 200 exhibitors and over 6,500 attendees over 2 days. As Finance Director at Equisys, I went along on for a few hours. Read more
Zetadocs Expenses: A Finance Director’s viewpoint Zetadocs Expenses: A Finance Director’s viewpoint "Dogfooding" expense management software Blog author (CD) / Thursday, November 3, 2016 We have recently launched Zetadocs Expenses and, like most software companies, we use the software we produce. As Finance Director, I’m going to share some of our go-live experiences and user insights. Read more
Thoughts from an Excel lover Thoughts from an Excel lover Blog author (CD) / Friday, November 8, 2013 First a confession: I am Colin the ever- helpful FD and I love spreadsheets. I spend a disproportionate amount of time using Excel to dig into data searching for valuable nuggets of information, spotting trends and creating pretty graphs for various reports and/or publishing to our SharePoint intranet. But the problem for those responsible for building and managing spreadsheets for time recording is that the main users, such as consultants, input data too infrequently to invest time ... Read more
Has your business outgrown using Excel spreadsheets for time recording? Has your business outgrown using Excel spreadsheets for time recording? Blog author (CD) / Friday, August 23, 2013 Perhaps not if you are a stand-alone consultant. But for an organization with more than ten time-recording consultants, the pain of relying on spreadsheets can be felt all the way to the top. In most cases, recording time is simply a means to an end, and that end could be: invoicing customers by your finance team; tracking project profitability by project managers; monitoring staff performance and billable time by business owners; or analyzing overall company performance by FDs. Of ... Read more
Why are our finance teams still so busy? Why are our finance teams still so busy? Blog author (CD) / Thursday, May 19, 2011 These days if you’re a business, charity or government organisation, you’re very likely to use some kind of accounting software. Either you’ll have a cloud-based solution or one bought off the shelf from a specialist, such as Microsoft Dynamics NAV which can then be customized to meet your requirements. You may even have your own completely bespoke ... Read more
e-Invoicing: get ready for the new rules Blog author (CD) / Wednesday, April 6, 2011 We live in the ‘Internet Age’, the ‘Information Age’, a ‘Connected World’, on a ‘Small Planet’. In our offices, we’re surrounded by technology that makes our lives easier, saves us money, makes us more profit, makes us greener and improves efficiency. Yet simple, straightforward functions like sending an invoice – it ... Read more
7 ways to neutralize the crippling effects of late payments on your business Blog author (CD) / Monday, March 7, 2011 A key knock-on effect of the global financial crisis has been the trend towards late payment of invoices among firms of all sizes, in all countries. Late payment is at best irritating and at worst crippling, especially for smaller businesses. Occasionally accidental, sometimes unavoidable, yet all-too-often deliberate and planned, the effects ripple through every economy... Read more