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The Gap between Finance and IT

What is your organisation missing? Let’s see:

Have a hot IT team, capable of establishing reliable, secure, performing systems within budget? Check.
Have a keen finance team, dedicated, involved, trusted? Check.

So where’s the gap?
It’s certainly there. I know it is because I often can’t deliver the information that managers want; I can’t answer the root cause questions […]

The Reconciliations of an Accountant

An accountant doing a reconciliation

Relationships aside, management accountants often find themselves having to reconcile a number of things. The obvious one is the reconciliation of a bank statement to the accounting records. Since most organisations in the developed world have a bank account, the need to perform bank reconciliations ought to be universal.
Anecdotal aside
I say […]

Review of SQL-Ledger

Here’s the second in a series of reviews of open source accounting packages - part of my mini-survey investigating whether there is any merit in open-source software for accounting.
SQL-Ledger Introduction
SQL-Ledger is a system for accounting, order processing and stock control and follows a traditional design - with the interesting exception of being a web application. […]