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 [...]
David Cristello – Building a practice workflow solution to solve the problem of client work falling through the cracks
Jetpack Workflow was really built to solve the problem of client work falling through the cracks. When I was talking with people, firm owners, they said, well, we have hundreds [...]
People, Processes, Technology, Data – essential elements of a sustainable business
We've got some clients that have been going with us for over six years now and their team members are equally as good as any manager in Australia because [...]
Simplifying choices within the MYOB Marketplace
On Friday 31st January, I attended Brisbane MYOB Incite 2020. The first stop of MYOB’s national roadshow and first time we’d hear from the MYOB’s new CEO, Greg [...]
10 Tips to Write Better Content
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done? It's an interesting question. One thing pops to mind but I have a little caveat with this one at the end [...]
Email about Hubdoc + the Xero subscription price increase – you’re welcome to use it.
Here's my email to people who hold their Xero subscription with me, about Hubdoc + the Xero subscription price increase – you’re welcome to use it. Hi Tl;dr- You’re [...]
An Inventory Nerd Solving Complex Problems with Simple Solutions | Jeri Wambeek
The biggest thing is time savings, and then, of course, if you're paying people by the hour time savings can also save money. And the other part is automating [...]