It has become increasingly important for housing providers to maintain good information about the assets they hold in addition to that which they need for day-to-day operations or accounts. The principle purposes are: Charging properties to lenders; Valuations for loan security or balance sheet purposes; Regulatory reports, including NROSH; Active asset management, where properties may…
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Finance Management
‘Finance headache’ survey from Orchard
A live SMS-based survey conducted by Orchard Information Systems at the National Housing Federation’s finance conference earlier this year suggests that component accounting and chaotic budgetary cycles (both 22 per cent) are the greatest challenges for finance managers in housing. The survey, which was conducted live on Orchard’s stand using its Communicator system, also found…
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Antonine go live with Kypera Financials
Antonine Housing Association completed the replacement of its Sage system with Kypera Financials at the end of March 2011. The new finance system links direct to Antonine’s Kypera housing management system to speed up transaction processing and eliminate data-entry duplication. Kypera reported that the implementation only required nine days’ consulting time in total. Michael Devlin,…
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Infor streamlines Aster’s finance
Aster Group is consolidating its financial systems and processes across its seven subsidiaries with the implementation of FMS SunSystems from Infor. Live operation of the new finance system for 40 Aster staff is scheduled for April 2011 following a three-month implementation. Aster’s strategy behind the new system is to de-duplicate and standardise finance processes, improve…
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Raven upgrades finance systems with £90k Sapphire project
Raven Housing Trust has completed the implementation of a new e-procurement system from Sapphire Systems, using iPOS from SunSystems for financial management and Kontrolla for document management. Raven said that the implementation took three months and cost a total of around £90,000, comprising £80,000 capital costs and the balance as operational costs. Antony Green, IT…
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Capita Resourcing appointed to PfH recruitment framework
The social care and housing division of Capita Resourcing has been appointed as an approved supplier of recruitment services within Procurement for Housing’s new recruitment framework. Under the three-year framework, approved suppliers can now provide both temporary and permanent staff across a wider variety of job categories including a number of specialist housing roles. Sam…
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