Bassetlaw District Council has met its SORP accounting requirements for its £280 million fixed assets with Real Asset Management’s Asset4000 system. The annual Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), which becomes mandatory from March 2009 for local authorities and many other public bodies, changes the reporting process for annual accounts. The overall objective of SORP is…
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Finance Management
Arena takes no risks with Emex
Arena Housing Group, which manages 12,000 homes in the North of England, has significantly improved its risk management, auditing and reporting capabilities using an automated risk management system from Emex. Arena created a new group structure in 2007, consisting of several subsidiaries, RSLs and associates, each with varying degrees of autonomy. However each scheme within…
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Castle delivers new FMS for South Lakes Housing
South Lakes Housing, an ALMO set up by South Lakeland District Council, has deployed Infor FMS SunSystems with the implementation carried out by Castle Computer Services, including integration with SLH’s existing housing management systems. Garry Ronson, financial director, South Lakes Housing, said, “We now have a financial management system with a high degree of functionality,…
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Better HR and payroll for Sovereign
NorthgateArinso has been appointed by Sovereign Housing Group to deliver a new HR and payroll system over the next five years. The system is expected to be live by September 2009 and will cater for around 600 employees. NorthgateArinso’s ResourceLink will provide Sovereign with a single HR database, consolidating multiple existing systems. The project will…
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Speedy HR and payroll at RCT homes
RCT Homes has gone live with Carval Computing’s HR and payroll system after becoming Wales’s largest housing organisation since taking control of Rhonnda Cynon Taf Borough Council’s 10,000 properties and 300 employees. Having taken on the extra stock and becoming the UK’s first Community Mutual Trust, a model for community-owned housing produced by the Welsh…
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Accounting for Southern Housing’s assets
Southern Housing Group has successfully moved to component accounting for its portfolio of 24,000 properties with software from Real Asset Management. SHG now meets the new SORP requirements and is using its database of 215,000 assets to improve information flow and reduce the cost of its annual audit. Rai Agostini, financial planning analyst, Southern Housing,…
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