Deadlines are much like taxes — inevitable, stressful, and often dreaded. You may be all too familiar with the feeling of scrambling to meet client deadlines, working long hours, and drinking one too many cups of coffee. But missed deadlines can damage your agency’s reputation, affect future business, and ultimately impact your bottom line. Yet, despite the high stakes, it’s common for project teams to struggle with keeping track of tasks, managing priorities, and meeting deadlines.

Financial professionals rely on financial planning tools and software to work efficiently and accurately. Some of these tools are as old as the PC itself, while a new generation of financial services tools is also competing for your attention. But with so many of these tools offering wide-ranging, overlapping feature sets, choosing the right mix of tools is a time-consuming process for investment advisors.

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Your accountants and CPAs have better things to do than fiddling around with invoices and calculating billable hours. …But you also need to get paid. Is spending hours on billing and payroll just a necessary evil in the accounting field? Or is there a better way? Time and billing software promises to solve this problem, introducing automation and real-time tracking to your accounting and billing workflows.

Finance is a funny thing, isn’t it? On the one hand, the industry boasts some of the largest, most well-funded businesses in the U.S., U.K., and the world. Transactions so large that the average person can’t comprehend are the norm. But, on the other hand, day-to-day life at companies in the industry includes many challenges familiar to those in less lofty professions.

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Jack Welch wasn’t a banker. So what can Jack Welch — as successful as he was at GE — teach us about project management in banking? Plenty. Project management in banking has its fair share of complexities and challenges other industries don’t share — and we’ll get into those in this post. But even though the specifics can vary quite a bit, the core or soul of good project management is built on the same principles no matter the industry or context.

Does it ever feel like there’s just too much project and not enough budget? (Does it ever not feel that way?) It’s not just you — only 34% of businesses report completing projects on budget half the time or better. In other words, most businesses (66% of them) go over budget on more than half the projects they complete. Project managers are constantly concerned with project planning, timelines, forecasting, and even risk management.

What’s your definition of project success? Delivering a project on time and on budget, right? That answer gets us most of the way there, but it falls about 33% short. For a project to be successful, it needs three qualities, not two. In addition to being on time and on budget, the project also has to reach the level of quality necessary to fulfill the project objectives.

Everyone, everywhere, wants a good deal — and good quality. We want a bargain at the car lot, but not on a lemon that won’t survive the drive home. We don’t want to pay $20 for bananas at the grocery store, but we don’t want half-rotten ones swarmed by fruit flies either. We want good quality at the best price. In business, balancing price and quality can get complicated. The things we buy or contract for are complex and nuanced, and so are their procurement processes.