Somewhere in your office is a server room nobody likes talking about. The hardware is five, maybe seven years old. IT quietly dreads the day it fails, because the vendor stopped supporting that model years ago. Backups run, but nobody’s tested a full restore recently. And every time someone asks about supporting a second branch
Your SAP B1 partner just sent over a proposal, and there’s a line item you didn’t expect: “Database: HANA or SQL?” Nobody on your team is a database architect, and the proposal doesn’t explain much beyond “HANA is faster.” So now you’re stuck trying to decide on a technical detail that somehow also affects your
It’s the 10th of the month, and your HR officer is buried in three spreadsheets — one for attendance, one for leave credits, one for payroll computation — trying to reconcile them before the cutoff. Meanwhile, Finance is waiting on the payroll journal entry so they can close the books, and a new hire’s 201
You finally signed off on a new ERP. The implementation team has SAP Business One configured, your chart of accounts is mapped, and your team is itching to go live. Then someone in Finance asks the question that stops everyone in their tracks: “Have we filed for CAS registration yet?” For Philippine SMEs, going live
June has a way of sneaking up on Finance Managers. Q1 filings are done, the annual ITR is signed and sealed, and it finally feels like there’s room to breathe. Then someone on the team asks: “When did we last review our CAS compliance?” For businesses operating a Computerized Accounting System in the Philippines, mid-year
In the Philippine Professional Services sector, whether you run a BPO in Ortigas, an IT consultancy in Cebu, or a Manpower agency in Makati, your “inventory” is time. And unlike physical goods, time cannot be counted in a warehouse. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. The problem? Most local service firms run their operations on disparate
