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Budgets can be an opportunity for reflection on strategy and alignment

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On the 27th and 28th February 2020 Financial Managers, Financial Accountants, IT Managers, and Financial Administrators from a wide range...

The “bean counter” trope is long past due for retirement, but what’s the alternative? Kevin Phillips argues it’s time for accountants to...

IDU has been named a Leader in the Budgeting and Reporting category and a High Performer in the Corporate Performance Management...

Nobody has ever written an opera about organisational budget cycles – but given the amount of human drama they generate, perhaps someone...

Empower them. If you want to track the rise and fall of buzzwords over time, the Google Books Ngram Viewer, which tracks word frequency...

The financial health of South Africa’s cities and towns is worse than ever before, with only 18 out of 257 municipalities getting clean...

There might be a recession coming soon; or it might come later. Economists are notoriously bad at recognising recessions until we’re in...

It’s time to upgrade your budgeting and forecasting process How long does it take your company to prepare its annual budget – two weeks?...

“Move fast and break things”, Facebook’s motto until 2014, was the mantra of the “disruptive innovation” era. Five years on, the naivety...

The US government has been steadily ramping up its campaign against Chinese tech giant Huawei in the past few years – and its latest move...

IDU Partners with Sage Intacct, bringing together powerful Financial Planning and Analytics capabilities with the innovation and customer...

The accountants attending our annual user conference earlier this year paused for thought about how to navigate the rapidly changing...

G2 Crowd, the world’s leading business solutions review website, released its Summer 2019 Report in Chicago on the 24th June 2019....

The myth of the 10X programmer has long done the rounds in the software world. Stories abound of unicorn software engineers that can...

It’s been ten years since Oracle’s Larry Ellison had his Thomas Watson moment, dismissing cloud computing as a fad, nonsense and absurd....

The Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of South Australia Inc. (RAHS) is the organiser of the state’s largest ticketed event, the...

Spreadsheets are a wonderful tool and have served many a small business’ budgeting, forecasting and planning needs. But there comes a...

“Am I an asset to my company? Or am I ….” The audience of accountants collectively inhaled, wondering if the attendee asking the question...