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Financial Accounting sub-system: Developing the specification

'And the other main area is the finance work with Holland. ... I mean, that's run into, not problems as such, it's proving to be very complicated, the accounting side of the work. ... We can only go so far mechanising it, you're never going to have a complete solution. It is horrendously complicated the way that they write these programmes and then organise the accounting procedures.

The stage it's at now, is that, there's a kind of paper out which highlights all the issues, and there's a workshop planned for a couple of weeks time where we're going to present our initial ideas on the screens, new screens and screen changes and so forth. So they're being mocked up, not a prototype, they're just mocking up the screens for the workshop. We'll try and get some decisions on the eventual design of the system. ... The aim is to get by the end of July to have a specification ... I think it's essential in this case [to have a mockup prototype] because it's so complicated, I just don't think we could tackle it the way we did ???, it's much more ??? the underwriting side was complicated enough but this is..this is really weird. You wonder how they make it work now, you look at some of the things and how it actually works manually? ...

We're working with Holland and the UK but the aim is whatever goes in Holland, goes in the UK ... and also other countries as well. ... '

X041 page 003.06 (tape 02.1.06) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/06/94

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