As you would have seen, last week I was a guest lecturer at Macquarie Uni. It was a great experience and I really enjoyed presenting to the students and giving them a snapshot of a day in the life of a public practice accountant in the SME space. Whilst listening to the other guest lecturersContinue reading “How the profession is changing….”
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The Xero Dashboard explained
You can literally run your business from the Xero dashboard. I love it. See how here at Xero TV The Dashboard | Xero TV.
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traditional accounting firm can and should make the move to become a “firm of the future” to avoid becoming stale and out of date.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”
The new toy !
After a long wait my Surface Pro 2 arrived. It has now replaced my office PC and iPad and laptop. All linked to the office network and screens via the toshiba dynadock. Will be interesting to see if it improves my productivity, having one device.
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”
Submitting Expenses via Receipt Bank….Child’s Play
I just came across this via my monthly Addon Success newsletter care of Wayne Schmidt and just had to share it ! Receipt Bank is a great Xero Add-On that we at EFS Strategic recommend and implement into our client’s businesses. (Receipt Bank were the 2013 Australian Xero Add0n Partner of the Year) And now, itContinue reading “Submitting Expenses via Receipt Bank….Child’s Play”
James Solomons 