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View articleNo business or accounting software package is ever totally bug free. Software suppliers have long since acknowledged this and happily continue to sell...
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View articleThe row between CIMA and the rest of the working party rocked theprofession last week. Rod Hill and Chris Swinson make their points. Read More...
View articleEver wondered what users really think of their accounts system? Every so often a new report comes out and blows a few vendors out of the water. Ovum&#...
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View articleA DTI report points the way for the creation of a standard format forsmall company accounts. Jane Crumpton-Taylor explains. Read More...
View articleThere aren’t many organisations that are truly happy with the structure and performance of their information technology department. But new rese...
View articleAccounting software developers Sage and Pegasus have called off merger talks after legal advisers warned that the deal faced referral to the Monopolie...
View articleMounting concern over European Monetary Union has prompted the software industry’s trade association, BASDA, to begin lobbying the Government ov...
View articleThere are several new developments at this year's Softworld, but whathasn't changed is the scientific jargon and hype that only serves tobewilder the ...
View articlePensions Review project managers are growing ‘increasingly pessimistic’ about delays to their expected completion dates, research by Deloi...
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View articleFinancial controls are essential to a company's integrity but Shell'sgroup controller, Jan de Kreij explains that there must be room formanoeuvre Read...
View articleEuroscepticism is all very well in political debate, but when it comes to financial systems, UK companies are going to have to mix it with the Europea...
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