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- Sep 15, 2026
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Spend management is not a volume problem (opens the original)
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Here's how the conversation usually starts. A finance leader tells me they process thousands of invoices a month, or they've got hundreds of expense claims coming in, or the card program has sprawled across every department. Then comes the line: "So we probably need a system." And the line isn't wrong. But it's asking the wrong question. You're not overwhelmed by invoices. You're missing control. Volume is measurable, and that makes it feel like the real problem. You can count invoices. You can
Corporate travel is built for the traveller. Finance inherits the mess (opens the original)
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Every tool built for business travel is built to make one person's life easier: the traveller. Search the fares, compare the hotels, book in a few taps, carry the itinerary in your pocket and change your flight in a couple of clicks. On that job the market has done brilliantly. Booking and managing a business trip has never been easier. The person who books the trip is not the person who has to account for it, and almost nothing in the travel stack is built for the second job. For the finance te
ERP will run your business. It won't manage your spend (opens the original)
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There's a moment in the life of a growing business when the finance systems that got you here visibly stop coping. Entities multiply, transaction volumes climb, and the month-end close that was once a day's work stretches across a week. This is usually the point where a business decides to make the leap to an ERP, and in Australia and New Zealand the answer is increasingly a platform like MYOB Acumatica, the Acumatica-based system MYOB positions, with a localised look and feel, above its small-b
Growing bigger and growing more complex are finally being treated as two different things (opens the original)
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Last month, Xero launched its new flagship offering, Xero Ultra. It is priced at $500 a month including GST and aimed at mid-sized businesses that have outgrown standard small-business accounting but have no appetite for the cost, complexity or stock management features of a full fledged ERP system. It brings consolidated reporting across multiple entities, scenario modelling, cash-flow forecasting with AI-assisted insights to a group of customers Xero has not served at this level before. Growin
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