English city council delays vital cash management system

Further delays have hit Birmingham City Council’s disastrous attempt to implement a functioning finance system after it emerged that off-the-shelf software to solve “one of the fundamental problems” with the beleaguered Oracle implementation has been put back.

In a council audit committee meeting last week, an external auditor said the bank reconciliation system (BRS) within the current Oracle implementation “just posted things all over the place.”

The council – Europe’s largest local…