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Kevin Phillips
Kevin Philips IDU
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Kevin is the founder and CEO of idu Software. He has degrees in Commerce and Accounting, and started idu with partners James Smith and Wayne Claassen in 1998. Kevin is fast becoming a thought leader in his field, and makes regular comment in the media about current affairs affecting business, as well as accounting, finance, budgeting and software. He is a columnist for Accountancy South Africa and Tech Leader, and has been featured in Sunday Times, Business Day, Enterprise Risk, Succeed and Entrepreneur. He is also a guest speaker on Radio 702, Kaya FM and Summit TV. 

About IDU

Established in 1998, IDU was created by accountants and financial systems specialists to deliver smart software solutions for budgeting and financial reporting across all standard ERP and financial systems. The flagship product, idu-Concept, is specifically designed to overcome issues that get in the way of effective budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

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10th May 2023

Make your reporting process a two-way street

When you think of financial reporting, do you think about presenting business data to the board promptly and accurately? Do you think about...
Financial reporting
14th Mar 2023

To stay the course try to take time over decisions

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run twice...
Finance & strategy
28th Sep 2022

Use technology to help customers – not lose them

The trump card in any debate around the challenges of doing business today is digital technology. Whatever the question is, the clever use...
Finance & strategy
26th Apr 2022

Get to know your software before saying goodbye

I’m an advocate of companies building the ability to flex and respond to change quickly and decisively, as you’ll know if you’ve read even...
Accounting software
29th Oct 2021

Becoming the accountant of the future

Let’s face it: we are boring, conservative bean counters, stuck in the back office, blocking spend and new ideas. We’re going to be doing...
Finance & strategy
18th Aug 2021

Cost control: Be cautious about low hanging fruit

It is absolutely the finance team’s fiduciary duty, and indeed obligation, to control spending, especially during times of economic...
Finance & strategy
27th Jul 2021

How does data protection fit into a remote world?

As we start to see the outlines of what a post-pandemic workplace is going to look like, we’re starting to realise that things that made...
Tech pulse
24th May 2021

Digitalisation key to accountants going solo

Despite the current uncertainty and unpredictableness of the world today (or maybe because of it—recessions are well-known breeding grounds...
Tech pulse
5th May 2021

Beware the sunk cost fallacy in a post-pandemic world

I live in a city that, in years gone by, was a major tourist destination for local and international visitors, especially during the summer...
Finance & strategy
31st Mar 2021

How to predict the future with outlier data

In pre-pandemic days, the answer to the question “Why should I care about digitalisation and artificial intelligence?” was very often “...
Finance & strategy
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