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It’s Coming Home!

2nd Dec 2022

And So The World Turns How quickly things change. One minute we had the big giveaway mini-budget from Truss and Kwarteng, and now Sunak and Hunt are the new double act doing their thing in Downing Street. And what a different set of fiscal ideas they announced on 17th November. I don’t propose picking them […]

Mini Budget Update

26th Sep 2022

Ante Up & Trickle Down   It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, so I thought it was time to put pen to paper, as it were.    The meme many of you will have seen prompted me into action. The one that goes: my four-year-old has lived through three prime ministers, a pandemic, Brexit, […]

The Benefits Of Outsourcing Your Finance Function

5th Mar 2021

There was a time when outsourcing got a bad rap, often deserved.  The term became associated with firms moving their call centres to far-flung locations or worse, getting a third party to support a firm’s IT. In both cases, it never went as smoothly as planned with poor customer service and interminable waits to get […]

Old-School Banking Is For The Birds

20th Dec 2019

Continuing my series on accounting technology, I thought it was about time I talked about Starling Bank, a real disruptor in the banking sector. You may have seen some of their adverts on the TV, the one with the Airstream food trailer and wondered what it is, what it offers and why it is different. […]