Cost cutting has always been a indispensable tool for businesses during a recession. However, many cut-down programs merely lead to temporary results: the company may gain its targeted cost reduction, but rarely will they gain sustainable growth. There are 3 cost cutting mistakes you need to avoid so your business can grow again when the recession passes. 

Due to a paradigm shift toward the digital economy, expense automation has become increasingly advocated as the necessary move to maintain compliance. Automating the process of expense management helps save both time and money as well as systematise expense reports.

Infor Ming.le is a comprehensive platform for social collaboration, business process improvement and contextual analytics. Its innovative social media concept enables an employee to work more effectively as it combines social communication and business processes. The major difference between Infor Ming.le and other information sharing technologies is Ming.le is fully embedded with the organisations main systems, for example, ERP and accounting software. 

In today’s business, every enterprise relies on an increasing number of IT systems to support various business functions in some form or other, be that accounting software, CRM, or ERP.

As you are well aware, expense management is an integral part of many businesses. This normally involves employee travel and entertainment expenses. Yet Aberdeen Report found that 53 per cent of businesses are still managing their travel expenses manually; gone should be days of manually reporting expenses. It is both a demanding and potentially risky process. All this time wasted, used energy and risk of resources can be regained with the use of cloud-based expense management systems.

Running a team of more than 4,900 financial advisors serving 1.8 million accounts in more than 2,200 locations worldwide is no easy task. For Raymond James Financial - a Florida-based financial services company - managing their employees’ expenses is among the most challenging aspects of their business.

We are living in the internet boom, where information is transferred without borders anytime, anywhere. ‘Cloud computing’ has recently become the most talked about among IT pros and businesses regardless of sizes. Though surrounded by scepticism and concerns, cloud computing still prospers without any sign of its ending.

The term T&E stands for travel and entertainment - any expenses incurred by travelling for business purposes or entertaining a business client. Examples of travelling expenses include money spent on accommodation, transportation, and meals. T&E expense management is important because your company's T&E budget is one of the critical places where you could look to reduce costs. Unfortunately, expense management and reimbursements for travelling employees are among the most time-consuming and repetitive manual business processes that companies face.

According to Hospitality Technology’s “2016 Lodging Technology Study,” 62% of surveyed hoteliers use business intelligence (BI) tools and another 16% will add them within 18 months. Armed with the right information, today’s decision-makers can better understand risk, performance, and the impact of decisions at property, region and group levels. But how exactly can hotels achieve competitive advantages with business intelligence?

It is safe to say most businesses would resort to cost cutting initiatives in a time of tight margins and high risks. However, a research by McKinsey shows that only 26% of those cost-reduction programs, still yield effective results after four years. CFOs, therefore, are increasingly turning to zero-based budgeting, ZBB, as a more sustainable approach to cost reduction.