I'm at #WCOA2018, and here with Dean Martin National Business Development Manager from PayVu. Dean, can you tell us a bit about what PayVu does? Dean Martin: What we do is automate and securitize the payment process bookkeepers and accountants to make all payments for their clients. Heather Smith: Mm-hmm (affirmative). And ... How do [...]
A client used Scottish Pacific for invoice factoring, and I created these support notes for them to help them download the data, and import it into Xero. If you are using another online accounting solution these support notes may help too. I hope you find them useful. Please follow the steps below. There may be [...]
Today I am speaking with Daniel Tramontana. Daniel joined BGL in 1997. During this time, Daniel has been part of the accountant's journey in transitioning from DOS to Windows and now cloud technology. Daniel is passionate about leadership and loves working with accountants and assisting them in growing their business through technology. Daniel loves [...]
Accountancy is not just about regurgitating the facts and data but figuring out what they mean and why they matter to our clients. I went for a long walk this morning with my dog Charlie, and I realised towards the end of the walk – I did not have my step counter with me. Deflated [...]
Your clients don’t need to be in your local area. Cloud accounting enables us to work with people across Australia and beyond. While the tax is specific to jurisdictions, accounting is an international language. https://t.co/F8g7CcJW0E pic.twitter.com/zodCA3AsMV — Heather Smith (@HeatherSmithAU) December 10, 2017 Before asking the question, where will I find my first client, here [...]
During a meeting today with a client, we looked at the financial statements produced by her tax accountant, and we looked at Xero statements for the same date, and they were vastly different. How could this happen? For my clients who are working with Xero savvy accountants, the Xero data will be identical to the [...]
I use GSuite (Formerly Google Apps) in my business. Part of the GSuite offering is a Marketplace of apps. The image indicates the Apps I identified as working with Xero and that I've added to my Admin Console - Automate.io, Expensify, PandaDoc, and Zapier. Adding them only took a few seconds. If you are working [...]
Martin Kratky CEO and Founder of Clear Jelly – will cover the following themes: * Common Planning, Reporting and Analysis Challenges for Xero Users* Why common approaches to this problem often fall short* How you can solve this problem, cost effectively with next level business intelligence* A step by step process of how to implement BI into your business* A step by step guide in how to integrate Clear Jelly and Xero* Q&A What is Clear Jelly? Clear Jelly helps small business make smarter, data-driven decisions with next level business intelligence. Clear Jelly’s pre-built data warehouse allows users to seamlessly combine cloud-based financial data with non- financial data for a 360 degree of performance. It leverages the might of Microsoft Power BI Desktop, for simple, self-service data visualisation. For the finance users who love the familiarity of Excel but hate the risk associated with it, Clear Jelly offers something special. Finance can say goodbye to manual data export and preparation, uncontrolled user access and large, inconsistent files. With Clear Jelly Excel Add-in you build best practice planning, analytics and reporting solutions directly in native Excel. It unites all your spreadsheets and models in one powerful multidimensional in-memory database with secured access and data integration from any number of source systems. But who’s going to put all of this together? Well, that’s where our Software Enabled Services kick in. Data skills are scarce and in high demand. In turn, they are expensive. We’re making world-class business intelligence affordable for everyone with fixed price packaged data services. With Clear Jelly software enables services, you work on the business, not in it. For Business Advisors, this is a triple win. Two additional revenue streams, without the overhead, Advisors can scale their business by reselling Clear Jelly’s software and services but best of all…you can delight your customers with stunning and intelligent dashboards and forward-looking insights you can trust. Out of the box, Clear Jelly integrates with: * Salesforce* Google Analytics* Online Weather Services (A construction company can forecast their cashflow against the weather forecast)* Any SQL Database* Microsoft Dynamics 365* Excel Bio of Presenter: Martin Kratky After finishing his Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the University of Economics in Vienna, Martin has worked for more than 20 years in the business intelligence space. After founding and selling the Australian branch office of MIS AG, a German provider of business intelligence solutions, in Australia in 2003 Martin focused on setting up and running multiple technology ventures that span software as a service (SaaS) businesses in the analytics and events space, as well as new IOT sensor technologies. Currently, he is focused on the global rollout of a new breed of analytics products that combine technology and related services in the business analytics space. Clear Jelly and the Enterprise version Agility Planning, enable business users to get started with advanced data discovery, interactive dashboards as well as comprehensive planning and forecasting processes that encompass all their relevant data sources. Who would benefit from attending?VCFO, Management Accountants, Accountants, Bookkeepers, who want to see how emerging software for business can shape their professions and businesses.If you have specific questions about this solution – enter them below to ensure they can be covered during the session. Clear Jelly have kindly agreed to sponsor ? and ?!
Never in our history have we seen so many accounting and bookkeeping conferences vying for our attention. Conference attendees are likening the experiences to Burning Man or Coachella. What does this mean for us as Cloud Advisors? What does it mean for our clients and for the industry? RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Accountants/events/243637864/ In the first panel discussion of [...]
Here is my wrap up of the 2017 Xero roadshows. I attended both the Brisbane and Gold Coast Xero roadshows. Last year I noted that this was something that Helen Goodman had done, and when I queried here she said that some of the Cloud integration solutions were not exhibiting at every roadshow. So by [...]
