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IDU NEWS AND INSIGHTS


Subscribing to better service
Last month’s article sparked a great conversation about how we, as accountants, can support our small business clients. Whether you think...
Nov 14, 20234 min read


Maximizing Efficiency and Accuracy: IDU's Seamless Integration with Sage
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, efficient financial planning and analysis are critical to staying competitive. That's...
Nov 2, 20232 min read


Unblocking the red tape for Pete the Plumber
Kevin Phillips suggests that we should start with thinking about who the numbers are for, to give real accounting value to our smallest...
Oct 5, 20234 min read


Modern CFOs: Beyond Numbers
Breaking free from the old view of just crunching numbers, today's finance leaders must embrace a multifaceted role. The contemporary CFO...
Sep 28, 20232 min read


Collaborative finance 4: Empowering teams in a disrupted world
Financial budgeting only goes so far. It is a building block of the company strategy, but it is only a snapshot of an expected outcome at...
Sep 21, 20234 min read


Exploring African Business Success with Margie Whitten from IDU
In a recent enlightening conversation featured on the Africa Scotland Business Network (ASBN) YouTube channel, Margie Whitton, a...
Sep 7, 20233 min read


The David v. Goliath of financial software
Last month’s article on customer relationships in business today prompted a discussion with my colleagues about choosing a large vendor...
Aug 31, 20233 min read


Collaborative finance 3: Diving into sales
In the previous article in this series I made the case for empowering your non-financial managers with the right budget tools. This was...
Aug 15, 20234 min read


IDU Promotes Gary Kruger to Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Strengthening Leadership Team
Cape Town, South Africa - 10 August 2023 - IDU, a leading provider of budgeting, forecasting, and variance reporting solutions, is...
Aug 10, 20232 min read


Balancing speed and deliberation
In today's fast-paced and unpredictable business world, speed reigns supreme. As trends accelerate and chaos becomes the norm, real-time...
Aug 8, 20232 min read


Customer relationships in a nameless, faceless world
In today's nameless, faceless, self-service remote world, customer relationships are surely a thing of the past. Whether you offer a...
Aug 1, 20234 min read


Collaborative finance 2: Empowering your managers
In my previous article, I proposed that a collaborative – rather than an adversarial or avoidant – relationship between the finance team...
Jul 20, 20234 min read


IDU Announces Promotion of Shawn Lamprecht to Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Cape Town, South Africa - 12 July 2023 - IDU, a leading provider of budgeting, forecasting, and variance reporting solutions, is pleased...
Jul 12, 20232 min read


IDU Receives New Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations
IDU, a leading provider of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis solutions for businesses, has recently received two new Microsoft...
Jul 6, 20232 min read


Better, not more
I often talk about the rapid pace of change in business today. But, sometimes, it is also true that the more things change, the more they...
Jun 29, 20234 min read


An introduction to collaborative finance
Yes, I know. Collaboration is one of the most played-out words in the 2020s. And you’ve already resigned yourself to dragging your...
Jun 22, 20234 min read


Speed up where it matters, but slow down where it counts!
This headline might come as - a surprise in early 2023 after three years of unrelenting, rapid-fire change. Almost every business trend...
Jun 15, 20235 min read


Empowering Partners: IDU Launches Comprehensive New Partner Program
Cape Town, South Africa 6 June 2023 - IDU, a leading provider of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis tools, is excited to...
Jun 6, 20232 min read


Is your reporting process a two-way street?
When you think of financial reporting, do you think about presenting business data to the board promptly and accurately? Do you think...
May 23, 20234 min read


Humans, robots and parrots
At the end of last year, ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool that everyone is speaking about, took a UK accountancy exam. It...
May 8, 20232 min read
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