Post-pandemic budgeting: Is a year still 365 days long?
This is the second in a series of three articles considering whether budgeting and planning is now an outdated discipline. Given the...
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IDU NEWS
May 3, 20224 min read
Get to know your software before saying goodbye!
If, as the old adage says, you’re too busy chopping wood to sharpen your axe you could be failing to get the most out of your software or...
Apr 21, 20224 min read
Planning & budgeting during relentless change
This is the first in a series of three articles considering whether budgeting and planning is now an outdated discipline. Given the rapid...
Apr 14, 20226 min read
FP&A & RTO: Three ways you should be contributing
The current debate around Return To Office (RTO) likely heralds the biggest shift in the workplace since the emergence of the assembly...
Apr 7, 20222 min read
Learn like an entrepreneur
If the way we were taught no longer serves us, let’s look to entrepreneurs for an alternative. According to the Heavy Chef Foundation’s...
Mar 30, 20223 min read
This is dodgeball, not tennis
A common theme in my writing for AccountingWEB, pre-dating the pandemic, has been the importance of building an accounting function that...
Mar 8, 20224 min read
The real cost of returning to the office
What would you say to the opportunity to quickly and easily save up to $11,000 (£8,200+) per employee every year? That would have a...
Feb 28, 20221 min read
IDU-Concept joins the Xero App Store
IDU is delighted to announce that their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting tool idu-Concept is now available in the new Xero App...
Jan 27, 20223 min read
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more unpredictable
Back in 2017 and again in early 2019 I wrote about the challenges and opportunities experienced when doing business in unpredictable and...
Dec 14, 20212 min read
Staying nimble in a post-pandemic world
My mantra throughout the pandemic has been that flexible, agile and resilient organisations are the ones that will survive and flourish....
Nov 26, 20213 min read
You’re not in the business of budgeting
With all the inevitability of winter following autumn, budget season is here again. And while there is no doubt that a solid, well...
Nov 16, 20214 min read
Walking the data protection-remote work tightrope
Kevin Phillips considers the impact of remote working on South Africa’s now fully implemented Protection of Personal Information (POPI)...
Nov 4, 20213 min read
Becoming the accountant of the future
Let’s face it we are boring, conservative bean counters, stuck in the back office, blocking spend and new ideas. We’re going to be doing...
Oct 25, 20214 min read
Four principles to guide your agile FP&A journey
Although the world remains locked in battle with Covid-19, we are starting to emerge from survival mode and to consider our post-pandemic...
Oct 18, 20213 min read
NFP budgeting: doing more with less
I doubt any company would turn down the opportunity to reduce operating expenses, but this is especially critical for not-for-profit...
Sep 29, 20214 min read
The short shelf-life of information in a post-pandemic world
I’ve been writing a lot about the need for the finance function of a company to be able to turn on a dime to match the pace of change in...
Sep 7, 20212 min read
Flexing your adaptability muscles
One of my favourite business success stories from 2020 (yes, there were plenty!) was Granadilla’s almost overnight pivot from a swimwear...
Aug 24, 20212 min read
IDU Launches New Advanced Consolidations Solution
Cape Town, South Africa – 24 August 2021 – IDU, a leading provider of Financial Budgeting, Reporting and Modelling solutions, today...
Aug 20, 20214 min read
Cost Control: Be cautious about low hanging fruit
It is absolutely the finance team’s fiduciary duty, and indeed obligation, to control spending, especially during challenging times of...
Aug 5, 20213 min read
How does data protection fit into a remote world?
As we start to see the outlines of what a post-pandemic workplace is going to look like, we’re starting to realise that things that made...
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