The Vijesti.me portal and TV Vijesti, as part of the ‘Business Challenge’ series, featured Finance Plus — an accounting agency from Podgorica. The episode aired on 20 November 2016 in the prime-time slot of 18:20.
About the ‘Business Challenge’ series
‘Business Challenge’ was a new TV Vijesti format in which viewers, across 20 episodes, had the chance to learn about the challenges facing small but successful Montenegrin businesses.
The series strongly supported the development of:
- Entrepreneurship, production, small and medium-sized enterprises
- Beginners, young people — and women in business
- Agriculture, tourism and hospitality
- Wood processing and ICT sector development
All with the goal of stimulating economic development and reducing unemployment in Montenegro.
Finance Plus in focus — 20 years of experience and a ‘green’ business
At the time of filming, Finance Plus had already been on the Montenegrin market for 20 years. Slađana Raičković, one of the founders, spoke in the episode about:
- How difficult it was to build a private business in those years
- Which challenges they faced
- How they reached their current status as a business provider
A particular feature — a ‘green’ and digital company
“The operations of Finance Plus are specific in that the company is declared a ‘green’ company, fully oriented towards digital services.”
This sentence from 2016 sounds almost prophetic today — the digital transformation of accounting, which was then a Finance Plus exclusive, is today the industry standard.
A look back a decade later
Nearly 10 years have passed since that TV appearance. In the meantime, Finance Plus has:
- Developed Proventum ERP — a cloud accounting solution
- Obtained ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificates
- Received the ‘100 largest’ award in Montenegro for the accounting and auditing sector
- Participated in the development of the e-fiscalization system in Montenegro
- Held a meeting with an IMF delegation on tax administration reform
The 2016 vision — digital, green and competitive accounting — proved to be the right direction.
The value of media attention for a small agency
Appearing on ‘Business Challenge’ was an important media moment — not only for Finance Plus, but for the entire accounting profession in Montenegro. The series showed that small, specialized businesses can be drivers of economic development.
Today, Finance Plus has grown beyond the framework of a small agency and become a leader in the digital accounting industry — but the vision that Slađana Raičković presented to viewers has remained the same.
Original article: Business Challenge: We present you the Finance Plus company from Podgorica — Vijesti.me Reruns of the series: Wednesdays at 13:50 on TV Vijesti Photo: TV Vijesti screenshot (via Vijesti.me)
