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Financial Accounting sub-system: Developing the specification

' ... And we're hoping to have something in by the end of the year on that. Though quite what we'll have in by the end of the year I don't know until we've seen the specification and had a go at quantifying the work involved. ...

Now on the expenses side we have an expenses system already in X in the UK so what we did with expenses, we thought well we can just take this off to one side and do it as a little project, implement Sun in Holland and get them using it, until they get familiar with it and ultimately we'd replace an expenses system they have on the mainframe. ... That's been done. We've got to test the expenses system and install it in Holland right now. And that's aiming to be live by the end of this month. That's good because it's something we can point to as an achievement and it gets them using, familiarised and using Sun systems and it gets the application off the mainframe. ... It's a good PR thing as well. It shows we've made some progress even though as I said before the actual accounting requirements are becoming very complex ??? we can say that so in a sense, I think, we've slipped a bit the original timescale became we aimed to complete this by the end of June but at least we can point to the fact that we've done something that we didn't aim to do by the end of June. ... '

X041 page 006.02 (tape 04.1.02) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/06/94

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