Case Study

Understanding Spend Management Challenges Across UK Sports Organisations

About

About

The client wanted to uncover the real financial pain points inside UK sports organisations spending habits, budget overruns, visibility gaps, and compliance issues.The goal was a clear, data-backed picture of financial management across the sports sector to guide future product or service direction.
Problem Statement

Fragmented Spend Tracking and Limited Financial Visibility

UK sports organisations face inconsistent expense tracking, frequent budget overruns, and limited real-time spend visibility. Manual receipt processing eats into finance-team time, while missing receipts risk VAT leakage. Slow invoice cycles, poor departmental spend control, and recurring non-compliant spending add further strain and underuse of historical data leaves unexpected costs and revenue strategies poorly understood.

Solution

A Comprehensive Survey to Benchmark Financial Practices Across the Sports Sector

A structured quantitative survey assessed financial management across UK sports organisations covering expense-tracking methods, spend-review frequency, budget overruns, and visibility levels, along with receipt-processing time, VAT leakage, and invoice cycles. It also examined departmental spend control, non-compliant spending, use of historical data for forecasting, and avoidable unexpected costs, while mapping revenue sources and gathering perceptions on audit trails, system integration, and policy enforcement.

Outcome

35%Organisations still rely on manual expense-tracking processes
47.5%Exceed their annual budget every year, most years, or every few years
60%Experience unexpected or unplanned costs on most or some projects
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