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CIMA Keynote speaker
I’m extremely honoured to announce that I’ve been invited as a keynote speaker at this year’s annual CIMA Members in Practice Conference! 🔑📝 I’m very much looking forward to sharing insights and learning from my fellow professionals.🤝 More details to follow…
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Confession time: I have a dirty little secret. 👀 But I’m going to come clean. 😏
Amongst all the business books I read, I also read sales books. 😜 It’s strange isn’t it, how selling has this icky reputation. Even to the point that people will avoid writing positive things on their own CV for fear that they come across like they are selling themselves! This week I finished the excellent…
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Software Deployment for maximum bottom line impact? 💪
How can I maximise the positive impact of a new software deployment? 📈🥷 That’s the question I’m trying to find an answer to, as I am currently working on a new finance system for our group of companies at PBH, as well as an ERP system for one of our manufacturing businesses. Being a TOC…
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Pandas in Accounting? A replacement for Excel.
Ever since I started my journey into the world of management accounts at Pavers Shoes, I’ve tried to offload as much work as possible onto the spreadsheet. I had 150 stores to report on as quickly as possible so any manual interventions to get the data ready or calculate the results was time I could…
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The hidden Excel feature everyone should be using.
What if I told you there’s this super powerful, amazing feature in MS Excel that no one seems to know about. What if I told you it’s not even a feature, more like a whole other programme hidden inside of Excel. A programme that I wish I’d discovered years earlier because of the time it…
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Is GAAP good? Critical thinking and accounting
Imagine you’re in the movie The Matrix but… When Morpheus offers you the blue pill or the red pill, instead of this being a choice between learning about the Matrix or going back to the simulated world, instead it’s learning about the Theory of Constraints or going back to standard accounting principles. One option will…
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When Goldratt alone is not enough – How I finally made sense of the ‘Thinking Processes’
If like me, when you read Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s ‘It’s Not Luck‘, the sequel to his best-selling and influential business novel The Goal, you were first introduced to his ‘thinking processes’. His set of diagrammatic thinking tools which can be used to solve all kinds of problems, simply by reasoning through cause and effect relationships.…
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