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Top tips from day one at SAP Control for VAT Compliance
Posted by: Sandra on: May 19, 2011
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Ryan Ostilly, Commercial Director at Meridian International VAT Consulting, and our event’s co-chair, summed up the most practical pieces of advice shared yesterday by speakers and delegates. Partly exempt organisations (from Lars Gartenschlager, SAP) – there is new functionality in SAP’s enhancement pack 4. If any part of your business has VAT restrictions (eg, insurance, [...]
Changes to supply-chain structures and business flows present significant VAT risk
Posted by: Sandra on: May 18, 2011
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Seventy tax and technology specialists travelled to London this morning for the first day of our SAP Control for VAT Compliance conference. With our usual mix of plenary sessions, roundtable discussions and impromptu Q&As, everyone was ready to share successes and challenges. Our delegates were keen. By the time registration opened at 8:30am, we’d already [...]
Business Finance lets loose its technology best of breed
Posted by: Sandra on: January 10, 2011
Business Finance magazine predicts an upswing for the technology sector and has highlighted the vendors it believes are best of breed across the software landscape. While the ‘Top Dogs 2010′ article seems predominantly US focused, there are a few nuggets we think all professionals in finance shared services will find of interest. Flagging the governance, [...]
Are your KPIs for accounts payable changing?
Posted by: Sandra on: December 9, 2010
It may be cold in London and a tad chilly in the conference room at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, but the topics under discussion are already heating up on the first morning of our Accounts Payable Automation Summit. Running through the results of the pre-conference survey our members participated in, KPIs proved an [...]
Bringing together Finance and IT to improve SAP
Posted by: susiewest on: July 23, 2010
If you’re part of an SAP project, you don’t need us to tell you the how much effort and investment are required for the system to meet your business’ needs. Ensuring Finance and IT continue to work together effectively is just one of a number of hurdles. Finance is under pressure to deliver more detailed [...]
Join the interoperability discussion
Posted by: Sandra on: July 14, 2010
At e-Invoicing Europe last week there was a lot of debate around interoperability and the different approaches being taken by service providers. We will explore roaming in more detail over the coming weeks, but in the meantime, we want you to be part of the conversation. We’ve started a discussion on this subject on our sharedserviceslink.com [...]
A request for harmony and clarity in VAT regulation
Posted by: Sandra on: July 7, 2010
VAT compliance may not be top of the list of eagerly awaited conference presentations, however Stefan Foryszewski, founder of OB10, an e-invoicing solution provider, held the attention of the whole room as he mapped out the latest regulatory developments and emphasised the issues affecting anybody working with e-invoicing. Throughout his session, he referred back to [...]
VAT and SAP Observations
Posted by: susiewest on: May 24, 2010
I chaired a masterclass this month in London. It was an event sponsored by Meridian looking at how companies needed to align VAT needs and SAP expertise. The gap between what VAT wants and what is actually provided by SAP only seems to grow. As legislation changes in Europe, especially with the introduction of the [...]
Susie’s Top Ten to E Invoicing Success
Posted by: susiewest on: July 17, 2009
If you are involved in an e-invoicing project right now, be it the evaluation of solution providers in the market, or the actual project deployment, I am assuming you might be interested in hearing the top ten factors to consider to make e-invoicing a huge success. Last week in Paris I chaired the E Invoicing [...]
How Ready Are You? 45% Of Those Asked Process 5% E Invoices Or Less Today
Posted by: susiewest on: March 31, 2009
In a recent survey of 70 Purchase to Pay professionals, 89% responded that they looked to be live with their e-invoicing programme before December 2010. Impressive, don’t you think? But in January we did another survey. When asked what percentage of your invoices are electronic today, a staggering 45% said less than 5%. So does [...]
