It worked for Aladdin – where can I find a cash genie for my monetary needs?

Charlie

Perhaps the most problematic effect of the global financial crisis was for most people the decline in the availability of credit.  The increasing difficulty in gaining loans from high street banks caused financial difficulties for many would be borrowers.  It can be difficult to avoid a situation where a household has to make a major purchase, but simply does not have sufficient funds to do so.  If a high street bank is unable to provide the service, borrowers can be left wishing they could rub a magic lamp and summon a mythical Cash Genie.

A cash genie doesn’t have to be something from a Walt Disney film – in reality, there are companies out there who will provide short term loans almost immediately.  That said, it is vital to always think carefully and strategically when applying for a cash advance. Primarily, one needs to be sure that a loan is repayable.  The lender will probably give you an indication of the extent of your monthly repayments, and it is advisable to think of a scheme of how these payments will fit into your current expenditures.  If there doesn’t seem to be a feasible way of factoring in these outgoings, it is probably worth foregoing the loan, at least in the short term.

The other vital thing to be aware of is the interest rates you are going to be charged.  Anybody who borrows money will be charged for the service, and the fee depends on the company who is lending the money.  It is important to be aware of arrangement fees and early repayment penalties – ensure you have the maximum information about the loan you are taking out before you decide which loan to go for.

Some lenders may try to sell you loan protection insurance.  As another financial product offered by lending bodies, this can be a useful investment, but equally you must think carefully about whether you can justify the extra cost that this will add to your loan.  A respectable lender should be able to give you personal advice on whether this is the best choice for you.

For most cash-strapped households, a magical Cash Genie is not going to appear and provide the funds to secure the purchase of a new bathroom.  But if you can do enough research and information to be able to find a loan that suits you perfectly, you should find yourself perfectly able to meet your needs without resorting to Aladdin’s lamp.

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My initial search for hospitality jobs Singapore

John

Having worked in the hospitality business for a number of years, when I was planning on moving to Asia to support my husband’s career, I was concerned about whether I would be able to find employment in local hotels as I had been accustomed to doing at home.  I decided the best way to look for jobs might be to conduct a number of internet searches based on where I was likely to be moving to.  My husband’s job was likely to be moving him to Dubai or Singapore or somewhere in the Persian Gulf, so I tried looking for the phrases  ‘hotel jobs dubai’, ‘hospitality jobs singapore’ and ‘hotel jobs gulf’, and luckily found a website called www.asiacaterer.com, which provided me with jobs in the area.

There are so many different hospitality jobs that I had to think about whether I wanted to be in a slightly different workplace from the old fashioned English hotels that had always employed me in the past.  The Asian hospitality industry offered jobs in large hotels, resorts, casino hotels and more.  I had been a deputy hotel manager for a while, and I also had to consider whether it might be the right time to attempt a different role.  I thought about taking a job with less pressure, such as a front desk clerk, or moving into a particular part of the industry, and perhaps becoming a hotel restaurant manager.  Looking at the results of my hotel jobs gulf search, I began to think that as moving to a new country might be a rather stressful and challenging, it probably would be sensible to go for a hotel job which was rather less demanding, perhaps as a restaurant manager.  This would mean that I was less likely to have to work antisocial hours, as there aren’t too many hotel restaurants that stay open throughout the night, when as an on duty manager I would have to be present.

Having earmarked a number of vacancies before the move, I was in a excellent position to start telephoning hotels about the jobs I was interested in very soon after I arrived in Singapore.  I was invited for six interviews and managed to receive job offers for two of the jobs I applied for, which I was really happy about.

I would certainly advise anybody else who was relocating to have a look for hotel jobs Dubai or hospitality jobs singapore as I did, and make sure you scope out potential roles before you move.  There are so many hotel jobs Gulf that it certainly makes a difference if you can familiarise yourself with the potential opportunities while you are still on home turf.

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Recovery audit software is especially critical in difficult economic times

Annie

The bigger a business grows, the more important a role its accounts payable audit department will have. A certain percentage of invoice payments, estimated by Fiscal Technologies to be between 0.5 per cent and 0.1 per cent, are, actually, duplicate payments. Naturally, it is very difficult to tell precisely how much of a loss this means for the company, since each invoice payment is for a determined amount. So, if you are lucky, a duplicate might occur for a small payment, or if you are not so lucky, a much larger payment will be duplicated. But, statistically speaking, it likely that 0.1 per cent of invoice expenditure will be doubled unnecessarily. Recovery audit software is a way of recuperating the losses incurred by these duplications.

How do duplicate payments happen? Well, there is a plethora of ways in which this problem may arise. Commonly it comes from human error that consequently affects either the supplier’s or the in-house data entry system. Generally speaking, an invoice entry will require about twelve different fields to be filled in by a member of a data entry team, such as an invoice number, a quantity of supplies, a supplier number, a date, and a purchase order number.

The cost of recovery can be surprisingly high; independent recovery auditors might charge a huge commission – often in the region of fifty per cent – of the payments that they successfully recover for you. And that, of course, does not account for those that they cannot identify. With recovery audit software your accounts payable team can run audits daily, or weekly, in order to optimise your chances of paying no more than the correct amounts.

A solution to this problem is increasingly urgent in uncertain, and challenging, economic times. Why? It is not only – or mainly – because the pressure grows on your own business to ‘do more with less’, as they say, and to remove waste and leakage from your expenditure. This is, of course, true, though, and the longer an organisation goes without an effective recovery solution, the older duplicate payments become, and the pricier it becomes to recuperate them. The main reason for the urgency is the variety of factors in the economic climate that cannot be controlled. Again, the longer a payment goes unrecovered, the bigger the risk becomes that suppliers relevant to the payments may go out of business. Accounts payable audit teams are advised to make use of recovery audit software to safeguard companies against these specific dangers.

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