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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Finance Management
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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NDL-Metascybe streamlines Coast & Country
Coast & Country has automated the authorisation and payment of supplier invoices by implementing NDL-Metascybe’s AWI integration technology. The solution will also now be used to streamline the lettings process as C&C moves to choice-based lettings. C&C previously had a slow and cumbersome paper-based process for approving and paying for materials from external supplier Travis…
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Economic optimism
Senior executives within RSLs are generally optimistic that the economy will recover in 2009, according to recent research from Baker Tilly. Baker Tilly’s ‘Crunch time for the social housing sector’ report found that volatility in the economy had altered the economic outlook of 86 per cent of respondents from housing associations and RSLs, but with…
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Harvest Housing reaps the benefit of faster payments
Harvest Housing Group, which owns and manages 18,000 properties across the North West of England, has automated its accounts payable operations using a Formscan system to make it easier and more efficient when dealing with supplier invoices. Previously, many supplier invoices were sent to one of Harvest’s 20 offices rather than the finance department, which…
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DIY vouchers for CBHA
Decorating vouchers from Homebase are replacing cheques for Community Based Housing Association’s tenants, giving CBHA more control and security, and making life easier for tenants. CBHA usually issued a cheque to the tenants to let them redecorate and refurbish their properties themselves. The housing association, which looks after 1650 properties around Waltham Forest, needed more…
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