IDU, the corporate performance management (CPM) software company that
transforms the budgeting, forecasting and reporting process for medium and
large businesses, has partnered with Draftworx, which provides tools to
automate and remove the complexity of International Financial Reporting
Standard (IFRS) financial statements, to close the loop for clients every
month.
The commonalities and synergies between the two companies are remarkable.
IDU offers an easy-to-use, yet enterprise-grade budgeting tool that Gartner has
named as one of the top financial planning applications for the last two years
and G2 Crowd has ranked in the top three global solutions for 2019. Draftworx
is the first browser-based IFRS financial reporting tool in the world. Both are
successful South African-founded accountancy technology companies and are
owner-founder managed, with highly skilled financial teams. Both companies set
out to simplify and streamline onerous yet essential accountancy tasks, freeing
up accountants and auditors to do more interesting, strategically valuable work
for their clients and companies.
IDU has integrated Draftworx service into its idu-Concept platform, so
that at the press of a button, clients can automatically generate up to 80% of
the data they need for their IFRS and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
reports, ready for importing into Draftworx. This will expose IDU’s corporate
client base, typically mid to enterprise companies across all industry sectors,
to Draftworx’s capabilities. Conversely, Draftworx will introduce IDU’s expertise
and services to both corporate and practice clients.
“We’ve always been single-minded about doing one thing very well: making
the budgeting, forecasting and reporting process less onerous, faster, more
collaborative and more accurate,” said Kevin Phillips, IDU co-founder and CEO.
“So in response to customer requirements, especially in light of the updated
rulings around XBRL submission to the Companies and Intellectual Property
Commission (CIPC) in South Africa, and anticipating increased regulatory demand
into the future, it makes perfect sense to partner with Draftworx, a trusted
provider that we work with very well, for a comprehensive service for our respective
clients.”
As well as XBRL submissions, Draftworx also supports accountants with
meeting increasing IFRS requirements. It has created specific templates for
various unique requirements in several countries, and is rolling out additional
templates to meet demand. In addition, Draftworx is developing a US GAAP
template, which dovetails perfectly with IDU’s recent announcement of its
expansion into the Americas market.
“IDU takes care of the monthly budgets, forecasts and reporting, managing
information from exco down and through the organisation; while we look after
the annual financial side and help our customers meet their respective
statutory obligations, managing information from exco up and outside the
organisation,” said Earl Steyn, Draftworx founder and director. “This
integration and partnership means that all of a company’s reporting is taken
care of, in a smarter way.”
The partnership was announced at the 10th Annual IDU User
Conference, held in Cape Town, South Africa at the end of February 2019.
Financial managers, accountants and administrators, plus IT managers from a
range of industries and countries came together to discuss how responsive and
collaborative budgeting, and real-time access to the numbers can help companies
adapt quickly to constant and rapid change.
About
IDU
IDU, idusoft.com, makes budgeting, forecasting, performance management and
reporting tools to simplify financial management. Our flagship product,
idu-Concept, provides easy, effective budgeting and financial reporting for
medium-sized to large businesses. It is the most widely deployed dedicated
budgeting system in South Africa with an ever increasing global footprint.
idu-Concept integrates easily with ERP software, but unlike more cumbersome
offerings, idu-Concept can be implemented quickly, requires little or no
ongoing consulting fees and reduces budgeting cycles from months to weeks.
idu-Concept, available on premise, as a hosted solution or in the cloud,
addresses this establishing a platform of ownership and empowerment that
inevitably leads to radical improvement in the effective management control of
every business. IDU is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
About
Draftworx
Draftworx™,
www.draftworx.com, is a fully integrated, compliant, automated drafting and
working paper suite designed to alleviate problems identified in current
drafting, working paper and audit software. It’s the result of collaboration
with some of the world’s greatest accounting & auditing minds. The
solution includes financial statements, XBRL reporting, working papers,
audit methodologies, collaboration tools and digital signatures in an
affordable desktop, cloud and hybrid variant.
