When it comes to benefiting from efficiencies gained from developments in technology, housing providers are no strangers to the concept of investing in new equipment to deliver cost savings. Many organisations in this sector have already recognised the need to optimise investment in IT, and this goes hand-in-hand with a growing awareness that the method…
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Asset Management
Cassiltoun Housing SORP-compliant with RAM
Glasgow’s oldest housing co-operative has signed up to use the latest specialist component accounting software from Real Asset Management to ensure long-term SORP compliance. Cassiltoun will use RAM’s Asset4000 software to streamline the management of its £42 million asset register comprising nearly 8,000 assets including houses, offices, a children’s nursery and training rooms. The software…
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ECMK launches fire risk assessment software
Developed in conjunction with current users of its asset management system, ECMK has launched a new system for housing providers to manage their fire risk assessments (FRA) of residential communal areas in their housing stock. ECMK’s Fire Risk Assessment Manager is intended to make it easier for housing providers to meet the demands of the…
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Habinteg takes RAM Asset4000 for SORP
Ulster-based Habinteg Housing Association is using Real Asset Management’s Asset4000 software to ensure that the accounting of its £159 million assets is SORP compliant. Helen Blease, finance manager, Habinteg Housing Association, said, “We spent the past year developing a specialist spreadsheet solution to ensure that we were SORP compliant by the April 2012 deadline. However,…
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Component accounting partnership from PIMSS & RAM
Real Asset Management and PIMSS Data Systems have joined forces to deliver a SORP-compliant and component-level asset and maintenance management system. RAM and PIMSS hope that their partnership will bridge the different needs of finance departments and asset management teams when dealing with SORP compliance. The deadline for SORP compliance is April 2012, by which…
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RAM signs new customers for SORP & component accounting
Real Asset Management has announced that Cardiff Community Housing, South Yorkshire Housing Association and Worthing Homes are set to use its Asset4000 system to support component accounting and for compliance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) which takes effect from April 2012. Under the new SORP guidelines, housing providers will have to divide their…
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