Budgets are real dot.com revolutionaries.(Brief Article)

While headlines are being grabbed by spectacular dot.com failures such as Boo, and the stock market valuations of those that are succeeding, the real Internet revolution is taking place in financial management according to Gary Simon, partner at Deloitte & Touche.

"The importance of having good budgeting and forecasting systems is huge," he told delegates at a Financial Management Software Solutions (FMSS) conference last month.

"A farming client of mine with an effective system managed to sue the Ministry of Defence because it could demonstrate that its plan