“Cloud Stories is the world’s coolest accounting podcast”
A guy on the Internet told me this once, and of course I choose to believe him…
The Cloud Stories podcast shares stories from the Accounting Technology world, the stories behind the people who build or use Accounting and Business Apps. It explores:
- How to implement and integrate Business Apps with online accounting software to automate processes, improve productivity, and profitability;
- How to build a business developing Business Apps;
- How to adopt Accounting Apps, build your own preferred tech stack, and introduce Accounting Apps to your client base.
“David, I listened to you on the Cloud Stories podcast with Heather Smith. You had a great interview with her.” Blake Oliver
“She’s awesome. I mean it’s all her. She is a great interviewer.” David Leary
FINTECH DOMINATE COVID ECONOMY Sep 23 2020 Cloud Accounting Podcast
Hmm…so what is a Cloud App, Business App, or Accounting App?
Cloud refers to the Internet and App refers to Application. A Cloud App is internet based software solutions. You can access Cloud Apps centered around the accounting eco-system here: Xero App Marketplace, intuit quickbooks Apps center, MYOB Add Ons, if you click through to make sure you select the correct country location.
By sharing Cloud Stories from the community listeners gain insights into how small businesses and advisory services can thrive in a brave new world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robots. Over the years, Heather Smith has interviewed Accountants • Bookkeepers • Business Consultants • Cloud Advisors • Cloud Integrators • Developers • Small Business Owners • and Solution Providers • who have generously shared their own Cloud Story on the popular podcast. Listen in now!
Cloud Stories is proud to be the longest running software independent accounting podcast.
Supporting Your Clients and Yourself Through Uncertainty | Dylan Burgess
Today I’m speaking with Dylan Burgess, Partner Relationship Manager of Float Cash Flow Forecasting. Dylan is based in Sydney, and prior to joining Float, he spent several years at [...]
20 Trends Changing the World of Work and Transforming the Nature of Careers in Accountancy | Kevin Fitzgerald FCCA
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The Future of The Accounting Profession | Kenji Kuramoto
"One opportunity this pandemic did give us is it has allowed us to bring people together from all over the world. That is what we have here today truly [...]
How to provide constructive feedback to apps | Beau Gaudron
Make sure that it's not something that you're doing wrong. Make sure you've done your research, to ensure there is not another way to tackle the issue Beau Gaudron [...]
Building Communities, Influencer Marketing and Customer Experience 2.0 | Alison Ball
"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 [...]
How Ben Affleck and Denis Leary are messing with David Leary’s Accounting SEO | David Leary
"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 [...]
How to Build Culture While Working Remotely | Brian Walsh
"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 [...]
Sitting in the passenger seat with founders helping them achieve their dreams | Martin Zych
"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 [...]
A Cloud Integrator for the Construction Industry | Robert Hudman
"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 [...]
Building a multi-disciplinary professional services business | John Knight
'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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]