Moore TK Enhances Its Consultancy Services with Agicap
The consulting firm Moore TK has incorporated Agicap into its product portfolio, allowing them to offer their clients superior financial advisory and services – be it cash management, liquidity planning, or reporting. Christian Pätzold and Fabian Bleymehl from Moore TK demonstrate how Agicap facilitates this and highlight the crucial role of seamless integration of bank accounts and ERP systems.
Key takeaways
Consulting firms like Moore TK often face the challenge of providing their clients with the right tools that are not only functional but also integration-friendly.
In the realm of cash management, linked Excel spreadsheets are no longer sufficient to meet the demands.
Moore TK relies on Agicap within its own operations and, more importantly, for its clients, offering an intuitive system that excels particularly in short-term liquidity management.
As a result, all Moore TK clients gain real-time visibility over their liquidity, can seamlessly integrate banks into their ERP systems thanks to the banking connectivity solution, and benefit from the extensive range of Agicap features, from spend management to expense management
" "We recommend Agicap to our clients as the best liquidity management solution available on the market." "
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Locations Across Germany and Luxembourg
170
Employees
Customer’s history
Christian Pätzold is one of seven partners at Moore TK and is responsible for implementation and finance transformation projects, among other duties. In his role, he primarily focuses on the consultancy sector, which is one of Moore TK's three core areas.
Additionally, the company operates in tax consultancy and auditing, employing around 150 staff across six locations. Their business clients primarily include small and medium-sized enterprises with revenues between five and 250 million euros.
" "We see ourselves as comprehensive advisors for our clients in all matters of finance and accounting, with liquidity management being a crucial component. For this, we needed a digital solution, which led us to Agicap. We recommend this tool to our clients as the best solution available on the market." "
A few years ago, Christian Pätzold and his team realised that a dedicated solution for liquidity management was missing from their portfolio. Simultaneously, the importance of this topic was growing, becoming increasingly relevant for both Moore TK and its clients.
To provide comprehensive consulting in finance and accounting, it was essential to implement a simple and digital solution for Moore TK's clients, replacing the previously used Excel tools for liquidity overview and cash management. An additional challenge was the integration with existing systems like DATEV.
" "We have found that short-term cash management is highly achievable with Agicap." "
Customer’s needs
Enhanced Product Portfolio: Software that meets clients' needs for liquidity management (reporting, liquidity planning, cash management, and expense management).
Overview of Short-Term Liquidity: Liquidity planning on a weekly and daily basis.
Faster Overview Without Excel: Ability to recognise liquidity at a glance without updating and linking multiple Excel spreadsheets.
Integration with Existing Systems: The software must ensure reliable data transfer with existing solutions like DATEV.
ERP-Bank Integration: Simple integration of various banks into clients' ERP systems.
User-Friendliness: The product must be intuitive for clients, allowing them to eventually use it independently.
Solution
With Agicap, Moore TK has found the perfect tool that meets all requirements. Agicap is primarily used in business consulting projects but is also utilised internally.
Short- and long-term liquidity planning presents a significant challenge for many companies. This is due to the high complexity of planning and the integration of data relevant to liquidity planning. Solutions in traditional spreadsheet programmes quickly reach their limits and require an enormous amount of manual effort for regular updates and maintenance of the liquidity plan, as well as to represent the high complexity.
Agicap offers perfect solutions for these challenges. All banks and ERP systems can be integrated through interfaces. Bank transactions and data extracted from the ERP system (e.g., open items) are automatically updated. The P&L-to-Cash feature enables the import of the existing P&L planning into Agicap and its incorporation into liquidity planning. With Agicap, developments in customer payment behaviour can be automatically identified and directly integrated into liquidity planning.
" "In our ERP consulting projects, we see that bank integration is extremely time-consuming. Agicap addresses this with its banking connectivity solution, providing direct integration of all banks into the ERP system. This saves time, is convenient, increases security, and enables a direct, comprehensive real-time overview of liquidity." "
Another area where Agicap significantly improves Moore TK’s clients' operations is the integration of banks into ERP systems. Christian Pätzold describes Agicap as an "e-banking system as a white-label solution," allowing the diverse banking landscape of Moore TK’s clients to be centrally integrated into the ERP system with minimal effort. This not only greatly enhances security but also increases transparency and efficiency in workflow processes – enabling centralised organisation of the entire payment process, independent of accounting.
At the process level, Agicap positively impacts several areas. As a complement to liquidity management, Moore TK uses Agicap Spend to process all incoming invoices. These are automatically recognised and assigned using OCR, undergo an approval workflow, and are then seamlessly transferred into the DATEV accounting system.
" "What stood out to me particularly positively about Agicap was the excellent support during the implementation process. Another major advantage is the high integration compatibility with systems like DATEV. A third point is the usability. The tool is very intuitive to use." "
On the client side, Agicap delivers significant advantages, as explained by Fabian Bleymehl, who is responsible for Business Intelligence and cash management tools. All consultancy clients now have a liquidity management solution that far surpasses the custom Excel tools previously created by Moore TK. Today, they use an application that enables in-depth reporting and analysis that was not possible before.
Conclusion
With Agicap, Moore TK has a tool that expands its consultancy service portfolio with a dedicated liquidity management software.
Both the consultancy’s clients and Moore TK itself benefit from various Agicap features. Agicap Spend, bank-ERP integration, and short-term cash management are just a few of these.
Agicap replaces custom-programmed Excel tools, which often had limitations. Now, all liquidity flows can be analysed both client-side and internally.
Hornberger Consulting
Business Sector:
Business services
Where:
Hamburg, Germany
Cashflow Problem:
Anticipate cash flow shortages beforehand, craft scenarios that are based on actual financial data, extend ERP-systems with cash flow management capabilities
M2A Media
Business Sector:
Media Agency
Where:
London, United Kingdom
Cashflow Problem:
Manage multiple entities during internalization, managing different currencies and different banking providers
“Agicap provides the view the board needs if it is going to make strategic decisions.”
Business Sector:
Software Development
Where:
Dublin, Ireland
Cashflow Problem:
High manual effort in consolidating the cash flow data of 8 companies and 15 bank accounts, high susceptibility to errors, outdated data and hardly any chance to provide management with reliable reports for strategic decisions.
