A single purchase inside a charity can be governed by more rules at once than almost any equivalent purchase in a commercial business. Is the money restricted to a specific purpose by the donor who gave it? Does it fall within a grant's conditions, which may have been...
Budget approval night gets all the attention. The board meeting, the public comment, the final vote, the headline the next morning. What actually determines whether that budget survives the year happens quietly afterward, in the hundreds of individual purchasing...
Between one quarterly board meeting and the next, there are roughly 89 days. The board sees a report at the start of that window and another at the end of it, and in between, the organisation makes every purchasing decision that will ultimately determine what that...
A multi-academy trust that grows from three schools to fifteen rarely does so with a financial process that was actually designed for fifteen. More often, it is still running the process built for three, stretched a little further with every new academy that joins,...
Every organisation of any size has a version of it: the purchase made outside the approved supplier list, the subscription bought on a personal card and expensed later, the order placed with whichever vendor happened to answer the phone first because the preferred one...
Onboarding a new supplier is usually the best-documented moment in the entire relationship. There is a form, a credit check, a set of agreed terms, sometimes a contract that several people have read closely. Everyone involved can, in that moment, describe exactly who...
Ask a finance leader why they lost sight of spend somewhere in the last year, and growth is usually the first word out of their mouth. More people, more departments, more locations, more suppliers, it all sounds like a reasonable explanation for why the tidy...
Camargue is a PR and communications agency working across sectors including infrastructure, energy and the built environment, with James Ford Design as its in-house creative and digital business. Since introducing Compleat's accounts payable automation alongside a...
Global business travel spending is on track to hit a record $1.71 trillion this year, a 7.2% jump on last year. What's notable is that the number of actual trips is only expected to rise by around 1.3%. Businesses are not travelling much more. They are simply paying a...
