On Thursday evening I was invited to attend a welcome function for the Guest Speakers / Industry Professionals that are part of the new unit being run by Macquarie University titled ACCG315 – Accountants in The Profession. I have been asked to be one of the first batch of Industry Professionals, representing the SME spaceContinue reading “Macquarie Uni pioneering changes to benefit accounting students”
Category Archives: Accounting
Quote of the week….
“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life” – Arthur Ashe
From Accountant to Business Advisor – Market your Firm in the Cloud
From Accountant to Business Advisor – Market your Firm in the Cloud. A very interesting article from the WorkflowMax blog. Quite a detailed look at how the traditional accounting firm can and should make the move to become a “firm of the future” to avoid becoming stale and out of date. It opens by challengingContinue reading “From Accountant to Business Advisor – Market your Firm in the Cloud”
Quote of the week
“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing” – Leo Buscaglia
Accounting industry technology trends – a collection of articles from the past month
As there are many articles being written each and every day on the disruption occurring in the accounting industry thanks to technology shifts I have decided to collate and post a select collection of them each month and provide some commentary on them. Four this past month have really focused on what is happening toContinue reading “Accounting industry technology trends – a collection of articles from the past month”
A simple but effective way to teach our kids about tax ! Found it and had to share for obvious reasons ! Sorry Georgia and Harrison :)
Xero CEO Rod Drury on small business in 2014…my thoughts
Xero CEO Rod Drury cuts to the chase and notes that you run a business to make money so that you can go on holidays and buy beach houses and basically have a great lifestyle. This echoes my comments from my piece on running a smarter business using technology to help you quite simply “makeContinue reading “Xero CEO Rod Drury on small business in 2014…my thoughts”
James Solomons 