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Three ways A&E and consulting firms can ease the pressure on finance teams
Now, more than ever, your finance teams are under pressure – so streamlining financial processes and providing the right support is vital.
How Consulting Firms Win - Ease Yourself In
The recently-released best practice guide to overcoming project and business performance challenges, How Consulting Firms Win – The Definitive Playbook, defines the most common areas consulting firms find competitive gains (project delivery, growth, profitability, and talent) to help your firm put its own successful plays into place. Whether you’ve just downloaded the Playbook, or you downloaded it recently and are having a tough time deciding the first performance area you’d like to tackle first, we would like to offer a few “get started” tips that might help you ease yourself in.
8 Best Practices For Management Reporting In A Project-Based Business
Does your firm spend hundreds of hours producing reports, only to find they aren’t timely or don’t provide sufficient information to make important decisions? If so, this best practice guide will help you understand how to improve management reporting and ultimately improve business profitability.
Working Capital Management: 5 Steps For Success
Winning new projects and new clients is not the only way to bolster profitability and sustainability. Find out how to improve your bottom line by optimising your firm’s working capital management strategies.
The Month-End Process: How to Accelerate Each Step
Is your month-end close a smooth and fast process, or a messy rush of timesheets and invoicing red tape? Find out how your consulting firm can attain accounting best practice, by harnessing the power of technology.
Enterprise Transformation Series | Part One | The CFOs Promoting Digital Finance Transformation
Our latest blog explores how CFOs are approaching digital finance transformation and opening up huge opportunities for precision, speed, and longevity - helping them to improve the way they meet both internal and client needs.
How To Future-Proof Your Architecture Practice
A blend of technology and business smarts can help to prepare your practice to thrive in the “disruptive economy”. Experts from the Association of Consulting Architects and Deltek share their guidance on how to future-proof your practice in our latest blog.
Are You Managing Your Firm's Risk Or Are You Putting Your Firm In Jeopardy?
'Mitigate risk' is a common phrase heard throughout the Architecture & Engineering industry, but what does it mean and is your firm doing the right things to truly mitigate risk? Often times, risk translates to money, but there is more to it.
[Infographic] SPI Research: How Top Consulting Firms Create Greater Financial Stability
2018 SPI research reveals that financial stability is a key metric for the best performing consulting firms. Check our infographic and download a copy of the full report to evaluate the KPIs and compare your firm against the best firms and the industry average.
Keeping Up with Technology Trends in the AEC Industry
Secure, reliable accounting and project management software with advanced functionality and the ability to automate tasks is a necessity for running a profitable AEC firm. Here are the red flags that tell you when your software is becoming a liability.
My Past Life as Director of Finance in a Management Consulting Firm
Finance is critical for supporting all areas of a management consulting firm from budgeting to cash management to financial reporting. Former finance director of a consulting firm, Amy Champigny shares her experience of transforming a finance function for the better with the right software.
How To Better Manage Your Project Lifecycle
In the professional services industry, no two projects are alike and more often than not they are considerably different. In this video you can learn more about how to better manage your project lifecycle
How To Grow Your Business And Keep Your Profit Levels High
Learn how you can maintain consistent profit levels in your business without restricting opportunities for growth.
4 Tips That Will Help You Achieve Financial Success
Understanding your business' financial past can help you to create a more profitable future. Here are four things you should consider to enable success at your firm.
The Changing Role Of The CFO: What You Need To Know
The role of the CFO is changing in many business. Use the best practice tips shared in this infographic to make sure you stay on top of the change.
How To Improve Your Financial Prospects - Without A Struggle
Architecture and Engineering firms are working harder than ever just to stay still. Here’s how we think you can improve your financial position.
You’ve Earned The Money, Now Bank It!
Whilst marketing agencies are seeing revenue increases across the board, many are finding it difficult to turn this into profit.
CFO KPIs - The 4 Metrics You Need To Measure
4 metrics that every CFO or Finance Director needs to know – we’ll tell you what they are and how to measure them.
Are KPIs Driving You To Despair?
Learn how to answer the tough questions that CEOs of Pofessional Services firms face
Stop Worrying About Cash Flow And Profit Margins
This is how CFOs should answer the tough questions they face from their CEO
Yesterday Is History, Tomorrow Is A Mystery
Is your marketing agency using historical business data to plan for future activity?
What Is The Secret To Successful Project Control And Profitability?
These four tips show how project managers can use Project-Based ERP to improve project control and profitability
Successful Acquisitions In The Professional Services Industry
Discover how project-based ERP can mean the difference between firm foundations and a house of cards.
How To Align Your Finances Post-Merger
Find out how an Enterprise Resource Planning solution can help you to align your finances and maximise profits following new business acquisition.
When You Know, You Know. When’s The Right Time To Grow?
Identify the correct time to grow your business using precise, real-time data from your ERP software.
How ERP Software Helps You To Manage Growth
Explore how project-based ERP software can help you simultaneously manage growth and margins.
Is Management Reporting Working In Your A&E Firm?
Many A&E firms often find management reporting to be a much more difficult task than it ought to be.
What Does It Take To Execute A Winning Bid In The Consulting Sector?
Consulting firms list growth as a top priority, with many recognising how ERP software solutions are a key player in the process.
What Does The Balfour Beatty Profit Warning Tell Us? The Cost Of Failing Governance
What can businesses learn from the finacial management failings of Balfour Beatty and Imtech?
One Organisational Change That Will Win You The Best Business
Discover how ERP software providers are helping businesses to win bids.
3 Project Lifecycle Changes That Will Maximise Your Profit
Discover how more visible and efficient project management led by ERP software can increase resource utilisation and profitability.
A Consulting Engineering Industry Paradox: The Value For Society Is Going Up While The Profit Is Going Down
Are firms in the Consulting Engineering sector adequately rewarded for the value they deliver to society? And would higher profit margins mean more innovation?
How Better Project Planning Leads To Improved Working Capital
Discover how project ERP software can give you greater working capital through improved visibility and efficiencies.
How To Achieve Profitability In A Project-Based Firm
Is your business system a profit-making or cost-guzzling asset? How can project-based ERP help improve profitability? Find out in this blog
Work Together To Improve Your Margins
Discover how Enterprise Resource Planning solutions can help your Professional Services firm work together to improve profit margins and reduce costs.
The Importance Of Revenue Recognition
Recent headlines highlighting TESCOs financial problems should act as a warning for all businesses.
Financial Benchmarking: Which Metrics To Measure For Continual Improvement
Finance managers are well versed in forecasting, but their financial systems often let them down. ERP software and metrics can be used to gain accuracy.
How To Reduce Time To Invoice
Explore how project-based ERP can keep your cash flow and subsequently your business in good health.
Profit Margin: End Goal Or Outcome?
Financial goals and objectives are achievable when you analyse, plan and implement integrated strategies by allocating the most appropriate resources.
Why Running A Global Professional Services Business Shouldn't Be A Game of 'Whac-A-Mole'
Learn why Running A Global Professional Services Business Shouldn't Be A Game of 'Whac-A-Mole'
If Your Business Is Built On Spreadsheets, You Need To Read This...
How you know it’s time to trade in your spreadsheets for a true fit-for-purpose ERP business system to maximise productivity and profits.
5 Signs Your Reporting Isn't Working
If your management reports aren’t accurate, your business will struggle to improve. Find out how to tell if your management reporting software isn’t currently supporting you
Can Your Business Keep On Improving?
In a world of thrive or dive, is your fast-growing business agile enough to cope with the demands you throw at it?
Why Insight From Project ERP Helps You To Realise Savings Across Your Finance Departments
Using high quality Project-based ERP software can deliver return on investment quickly in the short term and support growth in the long term.
Do You Always Know How Profitable Your Projects Are?
Many Professional Services firms do not know before it's too late whether their projects are profitable or not. But how late is too late? And what can you do about it?
Order-To-Cash Optimisation, The Key To Boosting Profits
Learn more about the change professional service firms can implement to make signinicant improvements to their profit margins
Why Do CFOs Want Enterprise Resource Planning?
Using ERP that is purpose built for your industry enables CFOs to gain control and visibility, access predictable results and guide their firm to out perform expectations
Stop Over-Servicing Your Clients
Professional Services firms can drastically reduce their profit margins by consistently over-servicing clients, yet many firms are unaware if and when over-servicing occurs.
Improving Your Processes Will Result In Satisfied Customers And Better Margins
Professional Services firms can increase customer satisfaction and margins by reviewing and improving their business processes.
Does Investing In Resource Planning Tools Pay Off?
Can resource planning and management tools have an impact on a firms bottom line?
5 Steps To Improving Profits Without Downsizing Your Workforce
Professional Services firms can make a significant impact to their bottom line by asking the right questions about their resource utilisation and process efficiency.
Improving Operating Margin In A Consulting Engineering Firm - Where Technology Makes A Real Difference
When working to such a small operating margin, it is imperative that Consulting Engineering firms looks for ways to gain control over their projects and finances.
Are Legacy Systems Costing Businesses A Fortune?
Legacy systems may be holding businesses back. Updating your ERP system will improve financial control and project visibility and enable your business to achieve growth targets.
Investing In Technology To Support Business Growth
CFOs are keeping a close eye on the balance sheet and every purchasing decision needs to be carefully analysed and justified. One of the most painful expenses of all can be technology, but there are substantial business benefits to be gained by investing in the right technology.
How To Become A Strategic Partner For Your Business
Being more strategic is increasingly important as CFOs move from being transactional holders of the purse strings to being business partners who deliver insights and guidance to the greater business.
How Deltek Maconomy ERP Enables You To Control Your Business And Improve Your Bottom Line
Deltek Maconomy ERP Software enables you to improve resource management and project control so that you can increase your bottom line
How To Improve Back-Office Efficiency
CFOs can improve their back office efficiency by closely examining their existing processes and making incremental changes that will reap greater benefits for the entire finance team.
Moving From Operational Wizz To Strategic Visionary
The role of CFO is increasingly changing from operational to strategic planning. In this blog, Deltek UK's Senior Director of Finance explains how CFOs can deliver the business transformation required to enable a strategic finance function.
Where To Start In Boosting Profitability
Understanding these 4 key areas which have the biggest impact on revenue will help your firm to boost its profitability.
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