Small businesses more than most find it hard to function with proliferating requirements to do with health and safety, flexible working and the like.

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The time required for the FDA to review the data on and approve a new drug--about 18 months--has been essentially unchanged for the past decade, while the duration of clinical testing (largely a function of FDA requirements) has gradually increased.

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For example, the Cash Management Function has 4 Processes in which requirements have been categorized: Treasury Information Maintenance, Payment Confirmation, Reconciliation and Cash Forecasting.

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For example, all requirements that begin with CFA were in the Accounting Classification Management Process of the Core Function.

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