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Part 3 of 3: Month-end Reporting typical challenges

Post author By Richard Bezuidenhout
Post date November 18, 2015

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Headline” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Some of the challenges/ building blocks in building a solution and how should you go about it? [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Body Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] In this, the third and final part of the three part series on some of the challenges that our clients […]

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Why Excel is here to stay

Post author By Richard Bezuidenhout
Post date November 8, 2015

Why Excel should stay. Use features like PowerQuery and PowerPivot to bring true data analytics capability to your desktop

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] I recently read an article in FinExtra by Steve Winder titled, “CFOs: It’s Time to Say Goodbye to the Spreadsheet”. Well, these are the types of articles that just gets me going. The research material that is referenced is actually quite good, but the views […]

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Part 2 of 3: Month-end Reporting typical challenges

Post author By Richard Bezuidenhout
Post date October 21, 2015

Part 2 of 3 The challenges Financial Managers face at month end

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Headline” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] How to set up streams of data from different systems into one Excel sheet? [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Body Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] In this three part series I chat to Elzaan from Semaphore communications about the challenges that some of our clients experience at month end, especially […]

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Part 1 of 3: Month-end Reporting typical challenges

Post author By Richard Bezuidenhout
Post date October 4, 2015

Challenges Financial Managers face at month end.

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] In this post we asked the question [box type=”shadow”] “What does the typical month-end reporting nightmare look like for the financial manager?” [/box] I chat to Elzaan from Semaphore communications about the typical month end challenges that financial managers face and how we […]

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Next-gen Power BI brings analytics to business users

Post author By Richard Bezuidenhout
Post date July 24, 2015

PowerBI dashboard consulting by e-magination

Picture: Microsoft PowerBI Blog On 24 July Microsoft’s new version of its Power BI cloud-hosted self-service business intelligence and analytics offering becomes generally available. Business users can now explore data, set up dashboards and publish reports in a few minutes without needing the help of analysts, IT or other middlemen to set up or model […]

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New Microsoft Power BI release

Post author By Richard Bezuidenhout
Post date July 6, 2015

Microsoft releases a new feature of PowerBI.com (preview)

Microsoft brings business intelligence to the masses Image “Graph On Tablet Computer” courtesy of watcharakun at FreeDigitalPhotos.net I’ve been watching Microsoft’s new BI announcements with growing excitement over the past few weeks. Power BI Preview has some great new functionality under the hood together with direct connectivity, mobile apps, several new data sources and a growing […]

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The value of Excel

Post author By Richard Bezuidenhout
Post date June 29, 2015

The Value of Excel

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] 60% of CFOs still rely on Excel spreadsheets to get access to data Image courtesy of “Computer With Drawing Business Plan Concept” by KROMKRATHOG at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Despite the wide availability of business systems and applications, a survey of CFOs has found that there’s actually a ‘data deficit’ when it comes […]

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Tips to start a business

Post author By Richard Bezuidenhout
Post date August 31, 2014

We bring you PowerPivot experts

Starting a business is incredibly hard, but only in our heads. The truth is that a business in the legal sense isn’t hard to start at all. You can simply register a company with CIPC and poof you have a business. What’s hard is, what we really asking is how do I start a business […]

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g|South Africa Review

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I recently attended the g|South Africa event – the second of its kind, this time held in Cape Town. It was two days choc-ful of presentations, discussions and proud geeky-ness. I only attended Day 2 though, which was geared towards marketers, and business-ey folk, and focused on how Google products could work to promote businesses. […]

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Why November matters!

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Hi All I never realised how significant November is. Firstly, it’s the month Cheronne and I celebrate our anniversary, next week will be a young three years since we first said “I DO”. However, that’s just the first part of what makes it significant. 10 years ago, on the 2 November 2002, I first registered the […]