Business Travel Spending Is Hitting Record Highs. Is Anyone Actually Tracking It?
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 ...
Families Are Spending More on Back-to-School. Districts Have Less to Work With.
K-12 families are expected to spend around $864 per student this back-to-school season, 24% more per person than seven years ago. Meanwhile, the districts those students are walking into are ...
96% of UK Charities Are Now Rationing Services. Here’s Where the Money Is Actually Going
Nine in ten charities have introduced restrictions on their own services this year. New research interviewing senior leaders at 100 charities holding more than £5 billion in investments found ...
97% of Finance Teams Have Adopted AI. Most Still Can’t Prove It’s Working.
Ask any finance leader whether their team uses AI, and the answer is almost always yes. Ask them whether it is actually working, and the confidence drops fast.
According to recent research, ...
The New Academies Chart of Accounts: What It Means for Trust Finance Teams
Every so often, the Department for Education updates the technical detail that most people outside a trust finance team never see, the chart of accounts. It sounds administrative. In practice, ...
Late Payments Are Now the Norm, Not the Exception
There was a time when a late invoice felt like the exception, a one-off, a supplier having a bad month. That is no longer true. In 2026, being paid late is closer to the default.
New data ...
Your Nonprofit’s Subrecipients Are Now Your Audit Risk Too
If your non-profit passes federal grant money to other organisations, the rules have grown stricter. This applies to partners, local chapters, and subcontracted service providers. The tightened ...
New Federal Grant Rules Land October 1: What US Non-Profits Need in Place Now
Every few years, the federal government rewrites the rulebook that governs how non-profits manage grant money. This time, the rewrite is bigger than usual.
On 29 May 2026, the Office of ...
The Hidden Cost of Slow Invoice Approvals
Ask most finance leaders how long it takes to approve an invoice, and you'll get a rough guess. Ask them to prove it, and the answer usually gets a lot less confident. That uncertainty is more ...
HMRC Is Using AI to Scrutinise Charities’ Finances. Are Your Records Ready?
Charities have always known that HMRC could ask questions about their finances. What has changed is how HMRC is finding the questions to ask. HMRC has rolled out structured risk reviews across ...
The Academy Trust Handbook 2026: What MAT Finance Teams Need to Change Before October
Every multi-academy trust finance team knows the drill by now. A new Academy Trust Handbook lands, and somewhere in the detail are a handful of changes that quietly reshape how the finance team ...
ESSER Money Is Gone, Enrollment Is Down: Why US School Districts Are Auditing Every Dollar
For the last few years, federal pandemic relief funding gave many US school districts room to breathe. That room has now run out.
Large districts across the country, from Florida to ...
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