Bridging the People Advisory gap | Will Lopez
I just believe it's actually the personal side of the profession. When you look at GL advisory, a lot of the deliverables are around an impersonal deliverable. We're looking [...]
What the future of banking can mean for accountants and bookkeepers | Yoseph West
We're seeing the government actually provide FinTech banking charters in the US, which still it's very early days on it. But our belief is that over time, we'll actually [...]
A chat about Insolvency and how advisors can help their clients through these difficult times| Jarvis Archer
Help you identify triggers which should raise concerns, help you, help your clients navigate their journey, and help you ask informed questions, during these challenging times. Today’s episode is [...]
How company collapse and embracing disruption led to XBert helping businesses succeed | Troy Brown
"It strengthens and protects the relationship between the business owner, accountant, and the bookkeeper. It's not just about little errors that get made. There's automated integrated apps that put [...]
A marketing platform and content library purpose-built for the Accounting profession | Ian Christie
"If you have a well articulated reason for being, so this is why my practice exists, and this is what I'm passionate about, and this is what I can [...]
At 14 Years Old Meet, the Youngest Xero Certified Advisor in the World!
This is a bonus episode of Cloud Stories recorded for the beginning of the Australian Financial Year. Ollie Beale, Apprentice at Bookkeeping4U joined as a special guest of the Afternoon [...]
Accountants are like financial doctors and Covid19 is like all your patients are sick at once | Jamie Beresford
"Whereas from a hacker's perspective, it's easier to trick then hack, and it's about access security, okay? They go after the endpoint. They try and trick somebody into entering [...]
Find opportunities for growth in your product career | Rosemary King
Now I'm back to my initial passion which is software, fintech, which is a domain that I've always found really fascinating. I think the psychology of money is really [...]
A chance meeting with Rod Drury on her honeymoon, changed this female software engineer’s destiny | Shanu Mehta
We were in the city, Hawke's Bay (on our Honeymoon), and we were walking around. And we heard somebody talking to his team, that he had this problem, and [...]
Accounting World Domination | Liz Mason
I have the best people. I have nothing without my team. I have good ideas and I have vision, and I do have creativity and innovation, but I don’t [...]
How a modern future-focused firm scopes, selects and implements best of breed cloud solutions | Lee Duffield
I'm really fussy about the way salespeople contact me. If they start spamming me and if I think they've got my details illegally, I'm not happy at all. I [...]
How to start and run a virtual community meeting
If you have zoom on your computer – check that you are running that latest version, by clicking on your image, and from the drop down menu selecting 'Check for [...]
Unlocking your untapped capacity using cloud applications | Amy Holdsworth
You can't be half pregnant. If you're going to adopt new software, new processes, new procedures, then damn well do it. Don't just kind of go halfway through the [...]
Common traits of successful modern accountants and bookkeepers | Luis Sanchez
Some of the best Accountants and Bookkeepers are extremely opinionated. They challenge the hell out of their clients and so I'll put it very simply and this is just [...]
Living up to the critical role of “Recession-Proof Accountant” | Will Lopez
The two terms that came out of the Great Recession here in the US were 'Flat is Up', and the 'Accountant Recession' or the 'Recession-proof Accountant'. Flat is Up [...]
Examples of how to use IFTTT Applets in your Practice
This is a bit late in the day, but a couple of ways to at least be aware of changes to the ATO Covid 19 information is to set up [...]
Tackling the challenges Accounting Apps face navigating Covid 19 | Nick Houldsworth
I think there's challenges, significant challenges, but any big kind of shift like this also creates opportunities. So, being ready for those opportunities, but also being realistic about some [...]
A new type of global and societal cooperation in the Accounting Profession
I’m grateful to people who’ve reached out and shown me kindness recently Thank you to Emily-Jane Shurey, Carolyn Breeze and the GoCardless team for the Stay at Home gift basket, [...]
Community supporting Community during Covid19
When Cassandra Scott + Andrew Erkins launched the Afternoon chats we did not know what they would become, but we realised that the community needed a safe supportive space. Community [...]
How to create a scalable modern firm that can sell | Ryan Lazanis
"I mandated across the firm what type of clients we would work with, the personalities of those clients, the technology that was used, and the core service offering. So, [...]
Playing the cloud game: how a computer game designer turned accountant built an app to transition his practice to the cloud | Paul Murray
Xero have been the first to say we're going to create a ecosystem and we're going to have an open API and you're going to be able to do [...]
A live document monitoring flexible responses of Accounting Apps during Covid-19
I’m going to attempt to maintain a live document monitoring flexible responses of Accounting Apps during Covid-19. Many recognising businesses are under strain, and employees are working from home in [...]
Lance Rubin – Decision making the art and science of finding value
We're going to run out of cash in five months time. So what do we do to avoid that situation? Because if we have to go into liquidation and [...]
Natalie Lennon – Starting and running a 100% cloud-based practice
When a client comes in. We'll say, look what apps are you using? What's the workflow? What's happening there? Can we automate? And we either try and do it [...]
Michael Ly – A serial entrepreneur, building businesses, navigating cultural differences, and always learning
As an entrepreneur, you have to get really good at selling what you envision you want to provide and what you envision your ideal clients are going to be [...]