Expert Seeks Improved Synergy between IT, Finance

By Omolabake Fasogbon

Economical pro, Chidi Alabi has stressed the require for a strengthened synergy involving technological know-how suppliers and economic establishments in the place. 

According to him, the go was expedient presented the growth and more robust influence of know-how, with many organisations   nonetheless to change their operational model to healthy with fashionable realities.

Alabi in particular stressed the require for Accounting and Finance industry experts to be in regular discuss with technological know-how suppliers in purchase to be abreast of developments in follow globally. 

He urged the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), to take benefit of seasoned fintech gamers in the country, like SystemSpecs to be ready to improve Accounting job in the place.

He said, “The accounting and finance disciplines are persistently staying transformed via improvements in automation, cloud-dependent expert services, artificial intelligence and unparalleled entry to info. Indeed, technology in accounting and financial scheduling has remodeled the sector with newer and superior software program, and its means to ensure accuracy and cut down faults, which helps firms stay clear of tax penalties and other difficulties. Furthermore, it is now a great deal easier to organise audits in a extremely economical fashion.

“In Nigeria, the increasing impression of engineering on accounting procedures is illustrated in the emergence of impressive financial administration systems these kinds of as the federal government’s Treasury Solitary Account (TSA) and the increase of the booming fintech sector which has supplied 1000’s of careers for Nigerians and assisted tens of millions of organisations and men and women system economical transactions a lot more effectively.

“Today, Nigeria has grow to be the leading fintech hub in Africa with a number of items like Remita,  Opay e.t.c,  giving ground breaking methods servicing hundreds of thousands of men and women in numerous sectors.”

He urged economic regulators to optimize the leverage supplied by fintech and other digital technological know-how solutions to stimulate efficiency and speedy keep track of business advancement in a tricky, hugely aggressive, and rapidly switching marketplace.