FISCAL Technologies

Prepare, adapt, and thrive—your journey into the future starts here!

The financial landscape of 2025 is set to be dynamic, filled with opportunities to transform, adapt and thrive.

We reveal the key forces shaping the industry, from evolving workforce dynamics and performance-driven incentives to the pivotal role of technology optimisation and the buzz around Agentic AI.  

Evolving Workforce Dynamics: Explore how the changing nature of work, workforce demographics, and employee expectations are redefining organisational structures and priorities

Performance-Driven Incentives: Learn strategies for driving accountability and excellence, and discover how to align incentives with organisational objectives in a highly competitive market

Technology Optimisation: Gain insight into innovative approaches to streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency through cutting-edge technological advancements

Agentic AI and the Future of Decision-Making: Unpack the impact of Agentic AI, the latest frontier in artificial intelligence, empowering finance teams to make data-driven decisions with unrivalled speed and precision

​​​​Don't miss your chance to uncover actionable strategies and prepare for the future.  Listen now!

Unlock the power of KPIs:  Mastering KPIs for AP/P2P Teams

Learn their importance, explore current practices and discover how technology can enhance your approach.

Engage in discussions to identify top KPIs and create actionable plans with guidance from our expert speaker Frances Lawrence.

 What you will learn:

• Understanding the importance of KPIs
• Current practices and data gathering
• Technology's role in KPI management
• Practical application through interactive activities
• Building KPIs using Ai

Our speaker, Frances Lawrence is a commercially driven and proactive chartered accountant with 20 years post-qualified experience in the technology sector within the UK and US including three years in Silicon Valley.  She has a strong track record of enabling top-line growth, closely managing working capital and ensuring stakeholder value.

Frances is skilled in collaborating with the leadership team to achieve the business strategy and is a highly effective communicator.

In 2024, fraud accounts for nearly 40% of all reported crimes in the UK. For non-profits, the financial impact can be particularly severe, with a median loss of $76,000 (approx. £58,500). Join us for a crucial discussion on how to safeguard your organisation’s resources and reputation in today’s high-risk landscape.

What You’ll Learn:
What is fraud? Understand the scale and impact.
Why does fraud happen? Explore the motives behind it.
Real-life case studies: Gain insight from real non-profit scenarios.
Prevention & Detection: Practical tips to protect your organisation.
What to do if fraud is detected: Immediate actions to take.
Relevant Law:  Your legal obligations

Why Listen?

Strengthen your fraud controls: Learn preventative and risk mitigation techniques.
Gain unique insights: Understand fraudster tactics to build resilient defences.
Learn from an expert: Benefit from Nandini’s extensive experience in non-profit finance.

Our latest webinar with speaker Nandini Balakumar from the British Heart Foundation, takes a deep dive into managing and mitigating fraud as a non-profit organisation.

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What you need to know about supplier contracts and the latest legislation.

In today's dynamic business environment, managing supplier contracts effectively is crucial for finance teams to ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and drive sustainable practices. What’s more, with changing legislation in the it’s more important than ever to keep on top of supplier risk. This webinar will explore key considerations for finance teams to be aware of when navigating supplier contracts. Our focus will be on compliance, ensuring attendees are fully up to date with the legislation and the actions they can take to protect their organisation.

The webinar will also include information on understanding supplier risk exposure and essential mitigation strategies, including reputational factors and sanctions.

Discover the Top 5 Purchase to Pay Risks and How to Mitigate Them

Join an insightful webinar session where we discuss the critical risks facing P2P today. You’ll gain practical solutions and discover the latest technology to address these challenges, as we draw on our years of expertise.

· Three-Way Matching Pitfalls: Learn why traditional three-way matching isn't foolproof and solutions to combat this issue.

· Fraud Prevention Strategies: Discover essential strategies to protect your organisation from procurement and invoice fraud.

· Master Supplier File Management: Understand the importance of maintaining an accurate Master Supplier File (MSF) and learn best practices for regular cleansing and supplier verification.

· Supply chain risks: Learn why it’s important to understand your suppliers and monitor them for risks.

· Supplier Statement Reconciliation: Discover the often-overlooked practice of supplier statement reconciliation and how it can significantly impact your bottom line.

Secure your spot now and take the first step towards mitigating your Purchase to Pay risks!

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your professional development and safeguard your organisation against the top purchase to pay risks.

Does the yearly audit give you nightmares?

Audits are a stressful time in finance. There’s pressure to ensure your policies and procedures are being followed, and much scrutiny is placed on AP for precise payments. We’re here to help.

Financial consultant Caroline Adams and FISCAL CFO Frances Lawrence team up in this podcast to give you expert advice on audit preparation and management.

The webinar will discuss how to maintain effective, efficient audit processes despite hardships such as remote working, data security, data collection and more. From selecting audit software and utilising the latest technology, to ensuring collaboration and compliance, our experts will pull from their own experiences to give you unique insights.

Feel prepared and confident during audit time.

Speakers:
CAROLINE ADAMS CAPS, MAAT
Financial consultant specialising in Accounts Payable and Shared Services.
Caroline is an experienced finance leader who works as an independent contractor specialising in helping businesses with their AP challenges. As the former Senior Finance Manager for Debenhams, she has led teams through many transformations and periods of change, leading the way in digital transformation and improving processes via automation. Caroline is also a member of the IFOL Education team, delivering training and coaching to nearly 30,000 members in over 22 countries worldwide.

FRANCES LAWRENCE,
FISCAL Chief Financial Officer
Frances is a commercially-driven and proactive chartered accountant with 20 years post-qualified experience in the technology sector within the UK and US, including three years in Silicon Valley. She has a strong track record of enabling top-line growth, closely managing working capital and realising stakeholder value.
Frances is skilled in collaborating with the leadership team to achieve the business strategy and is a highly effective communicator at all levels in the organisation.

Automation can make a vast impact in everyday life, allowing users to save huge amounts of time, and in the P2P process it’s no different. Automation of labour-intensive, often tedious tasks such as statement reconciliation can free up an AP clerk’s time to focus on more strategic tasks, and to focus on their own development, too.

So, how can we leverage automation to help us create an efficient, productive work environment that allows us to identify and nurture talent? How can we use this newfound time effectively to foster a culture of continuous learning and growth? Garry Stevens, Trainer and Coach for the Institute of Financial Operations and Leadership (IFOL), uses his experience to answer these questions and more.

Webinar overview:
Have you got the right measures in place to manage the risk of fraud?

Unlock the keys to effective fraud management with our upcoming CPD-accredited event!  In this dynamic hour-long session, our expert presenter delves into the critical aspects of mitigating fraud risk within organisations.

Explore the far-reaching consequences of fraud, ranging from financial losses and diminished staff morale to the importance of fostering a culture of whistleblowing.  Gain invaluable insights into the persona of a fraudster as we analyse their behaviours and motivations, shedding light on the proactive steps organisations can take.

Our event goes beyond theory, addressing practical solutions by examining policies and procedures designed to prevent fraudulent activities.  Real-life examples will be shared, providing a tangible understanding of the strategies that work in the field.

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your skills and contribute to a fraud-resistant environment.  Register now to secure your spot at this insightful CPD event!

The results from PPN's 2023 survey are in!

Join Ellen Leith, MD and Editor of Purchase to Pay Network and Dan Cashen, Chief Product Officer, FISCAL, to uncover the latest trends impacting end-to-end Procure to Pay, as we share the results of PPN's survey into UK processing, technology and culture. Find out which policies are working and why. We'll shine a light on new trends emerging, the depth and spread of AI and what this means for the future.

Discover:

- What paying late means for your bottom line
- The hidden benefits of E-Invoicing
- What collaboration is and what it isn't
- How new technologies are pushing the boundaries of innovation
- The culture shaping the modern P2P department
- How compliance leads our ESG agenda
- The risk factors eating into your cash

How do you create a highly effective AP department?

It is your responsibility to ensure that the AP department is at peak performance. Accounts Payable is an integral part of an organisation after all, and without you and your team the business can't run. According to a recent survey, a huge barrier to your AP team performance is time. With the administrative requirements that come with a team dealing with a high volume of invoices and queries, how do you free time for your AP Clerks to become AP Analysts and deliver additional value back to the business? How do you ensure the team is efficient as possible and how do you retain key staff?

Our presenters will discuss driving improvements with AP in six areas:
• Leadership – Setting clear goals. Identifying team strengths and weaknesses and how they can work together.
• Talent - keeping up team spirit and retaining staff.
• Controls and performance, including setting KPIs against benchmarking data.
• Reporting and recording key metrics.
• Technology, including the best areas to automate your processes.
• Organisation, including centralisation.