Are you a CEO or other senior member of staff who oversees the Finance function? 
Have you worked in a Finance team? or are you reliant on the knowledge and information given to you?
If your knowledge is limited to a set of financial statements and summarised reports, you may be missing out on crucial information about what is REALLY happening in your organisation,

​Earlier this year, Australia brought in their Payment Times Reporting Scheme which aims to improve payment times for small businesses. It requires large businesses and government enterprises to report their payment terms and times to increase transparency about their performance.

There’s a difference between data and information. Data is a collection of individual facts, information is the arrangement or sequence of the facts.

In accounting, data can be represented by the individual transactions, and information as the resulting reporting of those transactions as a group leading to a total.
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Businesses and organisations have a lot of financial data, but not all of it is converted into information. 

When you’re in business, there are so many matters to deal with that it can get quite overwhelming sometimes.

Transaction speed in businesses is ever increasing. So much is now instant or nearly instant. Payments over the internet - whether by credit card or third party portals - allow almost immediate transfer of funds. Convenience is everything. But is convenience costing you more in the long term?

I found this article just recently that explained the results of some independent research into the knowledge of accounting graduates. 

In the last week, I've done a number of presentations to business owners around the Wellington region. And thinking through the sessions afterwards, I realised just how limiting the focus on a business's profit and loss account really is.