By Angela Brown

N.B. crunches numbers to improve accounting technology

Oct 13, 2017 | 2:00 PM

The City of North Battleford has managed to find savings in order to cover the cost for its new accounting software system upgrades.

At Tuesday’s meeting, council approved administration’s recommendation to recover the $15,000 cost for the Vadim system upgrades and services by reducing costs elsewhere in the city’s spending, since the fee wasn’t included in the 2017 budget.

The city’s director of finance Amarjit Mahil said in his written report the city currently relies heavily on work involving manual data, so it would be more efficient for to use the computer software system instead.

The cost for the Vadim support would include training staff on the new software and customizing the software to meet the city’s needs.

The city was able to locate $15,200 in savings to cover the Vadim project cost by finding $6,200 in savings from its SaskTel service after previously changing to a new upgraded telephone system; by taking $4,000 from the city’s equipment budget from purchases the city won’t be making this year; and by postponing purchasing the Vadim HR Module until next year for another $5,000 in savings.

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City manager Jim Puffalt said the Vadim software upgrades are essential to help the city move away from manual operations to incorporate a new faster automated system. 

“Vadim is the backbone of our whole financial reporting system,” he said. “Everything we do comes through there.”

“It will help the staff since some of the city’s processes are manual, creating more work for people,” said Puffalt, adding the new system will increase productivity and save time. 

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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