The Cloud Stories podcast shares the stories behind the people who build or use Cloud Apps that extend the capability of online accounting software. It explores:
How to implement and integrate Cloud Apps with online accounting software to automate processes, improve productivity, and profitability;
How to build a business developing Cloud Apps;
How to adopt Cloud Apps, build your own preferred tech stack, and introduce Cloud Apps to your client base.
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 start up again, that's a lot of pain. Staff are going to lose our jobs. We're going to lose our company. It's not going to [...]
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 ourselves, I'm encouraging the team to research and be able to help. Or, if it's too much, let's say for example, we've got someone who's [...]
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 and your services are going to be, and not what you think you as the accountant or the founder can do. And I think that's [...]
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 or thousands of recurring deadlines and due dates, payroll schedules and bookkeeping schedules, tax schedules, CFO schedules, and even with a small firm, that [...]
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 they've been working for six years. One of our clients moved their Philippines team member who was doing SMSF work to Australia to be the [...]
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 because I'm honestly not sure if it happened to me or my brother. It's this weird childhood memory thing where it's blurred together. I [...]
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 a lot of this stuff helps with cash flow. That's a really big part of it, cash flow, because you can make decisions based on [...]
We've built a business partner portal on top of Employment Hero, which allows one of our business partners, be they accountants or HR consultants, bookkeepers to manage hundreds of clients, dozens, hopefully thousands of clients through one portal, so you can look in. You can see where every client is at in terms of [...]
If you control the buying process, then first of all you can knock out the waste, the duplicate purchases, but also you can really control where your people are buying from as well. Today I am speaking with Martin Peirce from Zahara Software. Can you share with our [...]
Today I am speaking with Cameron Lynch. Cameron is a Chartered Accountant and the founder of the Etani Business Platform. He believes he can help businesses survive and prosper in today’s disruptive environment. Cameron is experienced with Business Intelligence (BI), Analytics, Big Data and implementing cloud-based solutions to streamline reporting systems.Live data has a significant [...]
