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Logistics accountant wins Tectura prize

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29th Nov 2005
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Richard Falconer, group financial accountant for FCS Resources in Slough, will be enjoying a £400 holiday in the new year as the winner of the Tectura competition run during the summer on AccountingWEB.

When Tectura implemented Microsoft Navision for Kompan, the installation reduced the work of its finance department by one man-week per month - as detailed in Tectura's online case study.

To encourage other accountants to consider similar possibilities, Tectura asked them to imagine what they would do if they had an extra week each month. To encourage participants, Tectura offered £400 in lastminute.com vouchers to the most ingenious response.

Altruism won the day for Richard Falconer, who suggested using the time to volunteer. "There are dozens of organisations that could use help," he wrote. "For people who have skills in running businesses try The Princes Youth Trust. For work with younger people the Scouts and Guides are desperate for leaders and helpers. A few hours a week can make a lot of difference."

You can read the other entries on the original competition posting.

Richard told AccountingWEB he planned to take advantage of the prize early in the new year, and is considering a weekend in Venice, or maybe Paris.

He confessed that he just dashed off his entry without thinking much about it and was "gobsmacked" when he heard he'd won.

"I'm the treasurer of a scout group my son goes to," he added. "If I had more time I'd probably end up being quartermaster as well."

While encouraging other accountants to spread their financial skills through volunteering, the entrepreneurial ambitions of eager scouts don't always succeed.

"Scout leaders are incredibly active at taking boys and girls on trips and fundraising things, some of which are more successful than others," Richard said.

"One of the organisation's insurance managers told me that the second biggest source of claims comes from scouts washing - and scratching - cars. It's never a beaten up old Fiesta, but almost always a new BMW."

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