Cloud Stories Podcast

"The really successful communities are the ones where people really understand that the more you give, the more you get. And so I think of it as like ask [...]

"Ultimately, if you're in the small business space and you're building an app that adds on to either QuickBooks or Xero, you're building apps really for accountants. You can't [...]

"Employees always come before the customer, because if you have happy employees and if you have a really good healthy culture in place, then your employees are going to [...]

"What we're doing as accounting and finance professionals is helping to drive smart decision making. So if we can paint that picture correctly, we're able to help and kind [...]

"I don't want the accounts team feeling like they've got to navigate through this world of construction software. We should have those two systems talking to each other, and [...]

'Mongolia was about me taking myself out of my comfort zone. That was about me stretching myself to think differently. That was about having a bit of a breather, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]