We are increasingly asked by housing providers to help them gain a holistic view of their property portfolios. They need social and sustainability metrics alongside the financial NPV scores to achieve the objective of reporting both financial and social returns across their business and as the saying goes, “what gets measured, gets done”. Having a…
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Finance Management
Successful e-procurement in housing
In this interview, Anchor Group’s head of procurement, Iain Dawson, and Science Warehouse’s business development manager, Richard Porter discuss their joint implementation of a new e-procurement and e-invoicing system. What were the reasons behind Anchor’s transformational change? The driving factors were to make buying easier for our staff, reduce the internal costs of our ordering…
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Clearer performance at Welwyn Hatfield Council
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has deployed reporting and performance management software from Clearview to give the council a more transparent and joined up approach to project and risk management and capture its strategic objectives and goals. Lucy Aston, business excellence manager, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, said, “The new Clearview system will make sure our performance…
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SLH cuts arrears with Orchard Income Analytics
Following Orchard’s launch of Income Analytics at its customer conference in November 2017, South Liverpool Homes is now using the software to transform how they manage their income and arrears. Income Analytics has been designed to use the latest analytical techniques to combat the growing number of arrears cases resulting from universal credit and welfare…
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Fixed assets and component accounting
If you’ve not already been put off by the title of this piece, you may well be a finance person rather than an asset management or IT person. It’s a sad truth that, for asset managers, component accounting is often an inconvenience they would rather ignore or be invisible and, even for finance people, it’s…
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Orchard launches Income Analytics
Orchard has just launched its Income Analytics solution, developed in partnership with Coast & Country Housing, First Ark, Livin Housing, and Phoenix Community Housing. The software has been designed to mitigate the growing volume of arrears resulting from universal credit and welfare reform. Income Analytics uses the latest analytical techniques to help housing providers’ income…
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