North View Housing Association has confirmed that it plans to deploy Kypera Financials by April 2010. The housing provider is currently using Sage. An existing Kypera Housing customer, Glasgow-based North View wanted the benefits of having its housing management and financial systems delivered by a single supplier. Jean Price, finance manager, North View Housing Association,…
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Finance Management
Kypera ousts SunSystems from Magna
Magna Housing Group has replaced its SunSystems finance system with an integrated package of applications from Kypera. Magna said that its previous SunSystems package could not keep up with the growing complexity of its business requirements, while the running costs of the package were increasing. The requirements for the new finance system included a Windows-based…
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IFRS – best practice or bust
The public sector is facing up to IFRS (international financial reporting standards) and seizing the opportunity to use the asset register to maximise business benefits. It’s true that the new IFRS reporting complexity, combined with an extraordinary increase in asset numbers, does present a series of challenges to financial departments. But in time, the new…
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API reconciles housing payments
API Software has launched AutoRek, a new automatic reconciliation product for the housing sector. With rented accommodation providers, cash for the property can be received with no remittance advice or differing from the remittance advice, which means that the cash allocations team has to call funders to investigate discrepancies. The remittance advice is then manually…
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Procurement for Housing contracts for Computerland
Computerland, which is now part of Capita IT Services, has been awarded both the ICT and multi-functional device (MFD) framework contracts by Procurement for Housing (PfH). ComputerLand can now offer services to more than 670 PfH-member housing organisations for the provision of hardware, including computers, desktop printers and photocopying/multi-functional devices, having teamed up with Xerox…
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£280m Bassetlaw assets now SORP compliant
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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