Should the IT team be ‘in it together’ too? Is looking inwards and having the ear of senior management one approach? We have passed another Christmas and another autumn statement from George Osborne extending our period of austerity. The phrase ‘we are all in it together’ is banded about yet again, but in IT teams…
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Finance Management
Liverpool Mutual prepares for UC with South View
Liverpool Mutual Homes is using a new welfare reform module for South View Solutions’ mobile platform to help it prepare for the government’s welfare reforms. LMH has been managing the transition to the new welfare rules for many months, including the need to capture additional information on its tenants’ economic, social and household circumstances that…
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MidlandHR’s 100% success during RTI pilot
HMRC has confirmed that MidlandHR’s RTI software has been proven to be exceptionally reliable for submitting data using the new real time information (RTI) reporting method. 100 per cent of FPS (full payment submission) and EPS (employer payment submission) files were submitted to HMRC successfully. All but one of the EAS (employer alignment submission) files…
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Predicting and measuring rent arrears
Housing Technology asked Derek Steele, managing director of Mobysoft, for his perspective on the rent market, how income management teams are ‘getting smart’, the potential impact of welfare reforms and how they can be mitigated. After nine years of working with housing providers to optimise efficiency and improve businesses practices, it’s difficult to hear so…
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Moody’s reports on housing providers’ risk
While not strictly technology-related, a recent report from Moody’s Investor Services has highlighted the ‘downside risks’ facing many housing providers during 2013 and beyond. The report, titled ‘English Housing Associations: Lingering Downside Risk Despite Positive 2012 Results’, primarily considers the impact of universal credit and the likely increased risk that it will add in terms…
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Cunninghame consolidates reporting with Clearview
Ayrshire-based Cunninghame Housing Association is using Clearview’s web-based business intelligence and reporting suite to consolidate data and reporting activities across a range of business, finance and HR systems, replacing a number of application-specific reporting tools. Alison McColl, head of IT, Cunninghame Housing Association, said, “Our current reporting system, Hummingbird, only runs on our housing management…
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