The instant access to data and information provided by the likes of Google, iStore and Spotify has made people increasingly impatient with some of the legacy systems we use in our business lives – me included. There is nothing worse than waiting for a report to compile or a screen to refresh and it’s particularly annoying when you’re trying to do other things – and there’s time constraints. So bear a thought for folk in the finance team reconciling various ledgers for the period end close: