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Addressing clients’ fear of the cloud

Accountants frequently ask me: “How can I encourage my own client base to adopt cloud accounting solutions”. When they do I share with them a story about a meticulously maintained historical museum in Landsborough, Queensland with the largest collection of hand-cranked wash boards and vintage washing machines I’ve ever seen. If there’s a chance your [...]

2018-12-19T16:08:05+10:00December 19th, 2018|0 Comments

Laura Venables – Flipping the Australian Accounting conference model on its head

My name's Laura Venables, I'm the event director of AccounTech.Live and Accounting Business Expo. What does that really mean? A whole heap of things really. We are the facilitators of these two great exhibitions and conferences. As you know, they're both a pretty new style of event to the market in the last recent [...]

2021-05-15T23:18:21+10:00October 22nd, 2018|0 Comments

What Expensify is, and how it integrates with Xero

Expensify’s Head of Growth for the APAC region, Phong Le recently shared with Xero, what Expensify is, and how it integrates with Xero. Click here to watch the video Expense Management is painful because there is a lot of following up for receipts, for information, trying to reconcile, and what Expensify can do is automate [...]

2018-03-05T08:32:25+10:00February 20th, 2018|0 Comments

The benefits of niching and working with a partner programme

I’ve been closely involved with the cloud accountants, bookkeepers and advisors community for the last decade. For many practices, the adoption of technology and automation of compliance has resulted in a significant increase in their client base. To adapt to these developments practices are tinkering with their pricing model, offering advisory services, and focusing on [...]

2017-11-21T08:04:23+10:00November 7th, 2017|1 Comment

Own Tomorrow. What I saw at 2017 MYOB Incite

Incite (definition) to move to action: stir up : spur on : urge on. Merriam Webster Martin McLean of Team Race Bookkkeeping On the first Friday in February I attended the MYOB Incite conference in Brisbane. I registered in early January for the event and then a couple of weeks later a confirmation email [...]

2017-11-10T03:43:04+10:00February 8th, 2017|0 Comments

The story behind writing Xero for Dummies

The story behind writing Xero for Dummies I've been a writer since I could put pen to paper, and I love to write about everything small business. I've written Learn MYOB in 7 Days (yes I'm a MYOB Certified Consultant), and  Learn Small Business Start-Up in 7 Days (a brilliant book which I'm really proud of!). [...]

2020-01-28T09:16:32+10:00October 4th, 2016|0 Comments

Differences in the MYOB and Xero chart of accounts

Differences in the MYOB and Xero chart of accounts Here are a number of observations around the differences in the way MYOB and Xero chart of accounts work. This is useful to understand if you are assessing which system you would like to work with. Account Numbers Xero account numbers are completely wild and free [...]

2017-03-01T14:27:37+10:00September 23rd, 2016|1 Comment

Data Dear alternatives when its no longer available outside QBO

Data Dear will soon no longer be available to users outside of QBO Late 2021 Data Dear was acquired by Intuit. I’ve spoken to the Intuit and the Data Dear team. The solution will be built into QBO, so it will no longer be available to external users. If you are on QBO I guess [...]

2022-06-07T16:33:24+10:00June 19th, 2016|0 Comments
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