Case Study: Friends of the Elderly reduces management reporting from two weeks to three days with The Access Group

How Friends of the Elderly reduced their management reporting

Friends of the Elderly is a UK charity with a £22m turnover, over 900 employees and 200 volunteers delivering residential, dementia, nursing and respite care. Faced with manual, spreadsheet-driven reporting, out-of-date information, error-prone rekeying and no automated reconciliation, the charity engaged Access Group and implemented Access Financials (Dimensions) along with FocalPoint, Access Expense, SelectHR and Payroll to modernise its finance and expense processes.

Access Group’s solution automated bank reconciliations, streamlined expense submission and approvals, and provided live, accurate financial reporting. As a result, Friends of the Elderly cut management reporting time from two weeks to three days, reduced complexity and re-keying errors, turned hours of daily reconciliation work into minutes, and freed finance staff to focus on strategic decisions.

Friends of the Elderly

Sharon Nunn

Group Financial Controller