Category Archives: Small Business

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traditional accounting firm can and should make the move to become a “firm of the future” to avoid becoming stale and out of date.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”

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”

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”

Using technology to run a smarter business

This article first appeared on the Eagle Waves Radio website following my guest appearance on their Eagle Business Show. The article was also featured in another blog by Clayton Moulynox who has coined the term #Accloudants to describe “Cloud Accountants” !  Every day of the week many of us use technology in our personal routines to make our lives easier. SmartContinue reading “Using technology to run a smarter business”

Xero for Business

In my last article I focused on how Xero has disrupted the accounting profession through the launch of its “Practice Studio”, the suite of best of breed cloud based practice management programs for its accounting and bookkeeping partners. However Xero didn’t start out as an accountant’s tool. It was and still is a business bookkeeping,Continue reading “Xero for Business”

EFS Strategic & Xero

Finding better ways to connect and collaborate with our clients has always been our primary objective as accountants and business advisers. Being seen as truly proactive and partnering with our clients is a long held goal that simply makes good business sense. For many years we have worked with clunky solutions which were not simpleContinue reading “EFS Strategic & Xero”