Today’s global business challenges together with the recognition that working capital is the fuel for the organization’s growth engine create a compelling case for action to dramatically improve the management of this most valuable of assets.

Introduction – World Class …

Assuring the organisational cardio-vascular system, insights for the CFO and the Audit Committee

Today’s standard practice in business assurance is focused on symptoms of problems, followed by diagnosis and cure. This approach has significant risks in itself. If you consider …

Challenging assumptions with practical experience

‘Continuous Audit’ has been discussed and written about for decades. Conferences are run and books get written on the subject. But to this day, the definition is hard to pin down and there is quite …

The Issue

Claiming for travel, entertainment and other expenses is a regular part of many people’s working lives. There is a whole range of expenses that can be legitimately claimed for and most companies will have a documented policy to …

Order to Cash (O2C), or the receiving and processing of customer sales, is one of the key business processes to be monitored within organisations, as the efficiency of the incoming cash cycle can severely impact organisational health and growth prospects.…

Optimising Purchase To Pay (P2P): Top 10 Exceptions

The reasons to acquire a tool to control authorizations within critical enterprise wide systems may vary. The goal is always the same – manage risks. In the case of SOD issues the risk lies in the abuse of rights granted …

A Compliance tool environment is where the fusion between rules containing one or more conditions used to identify risks in a business process and the data extracted from ERP tables to produce exception reports. In a Compliance Tool framework these …

Driving continuous improvement “The aggregation of marginal gains”

Accounting Shared Services are a central plank of any transformation towards a world class finance capability. They are a key finance tool for efficiency and an enabler for strategic flexibility, but achieving …