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Part 2 of 3: Month-end Reporting typical challenges

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

Challenges Financial Managers face at month end
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

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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

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

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

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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 […]

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Hi Everyone So Jason, Zinia and I have been working on a new look and feel for our website. One of the key elements in any web design is the “slider”. It’s so popular that if  you come across a website that doesn’t have one, things almost feel like they aren’t quite right and the […]