Delighted to have started to work with Duggan Morris Architects on Business and Costing systems. Have a look at their website to see the exciting work they are responsible for.
View full entryWell, contrary to what I preach, I have been slightly remise in my accounts, putting if off because I am too busy. I use a wonderful finance system called Xero and being a one man band just really have bank payments as expenditure. Its simple but I still had 300 bank payments to reconcile, mostly... View full entry
Unfortunately the idea of peering over your desk and seeing your staff busy meant that you were doing "okay" is no longer valid - if indeed it ever was! In the current economic environment of salary inflation and Fee stagnation costs are edging seriously close to fees. The only option to counter... View full entry
I recently attended a meeting of FD's of Architectural Practices in London. As you can imagine, more of a therapy session than anything else. Humorously, a question was posed, "why bother with timesheets". As much as the Architectural staff begrudge doing them, finance and support staff hate the... View full entry
This blog is to engage with the profession as to which systems staff actually use, what are the challenges and what should we want from a system. For too long, the profession have had to put up with second rate software, designed for generic "professional services" firms. The result is often that these systems are not used for the critical task of running projects financially. What do we want systems to do?, do we want to resource weekly or monthly - or at all?
