Recent TRG blog posts

While treasury management has always been critical in ensuring a corporate’s liquidity and financial viability, its role appears to have become even more important in recent years. When the treasury department operates as a strategic business partner, working closely with other business functions, it needs better tools and technology.

Today, AstraZeneca is widely known for their Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, co-developed with the University of Oxford. But this hardly is the first time the pharma giant pushes the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicine.

Healthcare is essential. Everyone gets sick and is entitled to adequate healthcare treatment when needed. Serving a wide range of patients of different age and conditions, it is understandable that the healthcare industry offers vast services, complies with complex statutory requirements, and handles stressful environments daily.

Intercompany Accounting has always been a highly important process for the parent company to get done right. Though expanding the business is seen as a success, managing the accounting and finance side is not an easy job. Companies have always found the work to be significantly challenging and risky, and Intercompany Accounting is one of the top struggles. If done wrong, the company can deal with serious issues and errors in their final financial statements.

Operating a startup is challenging. As a startup owner, you have to wear multiple hats, and the last thing you want to worry about is keeping track of every single receipt. Thus, it is understandable to overlook the accounting function as you are trying to balance your time as much as possible. 

Financial services firms today still face the lingering effects of the latest global financial crisis. What's more, regulatory reform, complex reporting requirements, low interest rates on top of disruptive technologies have forced financial institutions to quickly adopt agile strategies and solutions to stay competitive.

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. 

In countries like Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, e-invoices have been implemented since the late 2000s. The process of transitioning from paper-based invoices to digital ones certainly is complex due to complicated tax laws and regulations. However, they offer a multitude of benefits to both suppliers and buyers, ranging from eliminating human errors to reducing illegal/ invalid transactions, speeding up the approval process, and maintaining compliance.

Infor Expense Management is a travel and entertainment expense management solution. It is a suite of four integrated applications (Expense Reports, Travel Plans, Payment Request, Timesheets), which we will discuss in-depth further in the blog. Infor Expense Management helps eliminate manual processes, supports mobile usage and social collaboration, and is available for both in the cloud or on-premises.

E-commerce has experienced a tremendous boost during the pandemic as physical stores are forced to stay closed. However, this also poses a challenge to e-commerce businesses because critical back-office functions, like accounting, may not be able to keep up with that immense increase in business volume.