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What accounting looked like 10 years ago…

My latest article as it appeared on Accountants Daily “What accounting looked like ten years ago – and how the industry is changing” Five years on from the turn of the millennium, the industry had gotten over its last major change – the introduction of GST. With small businesses now required to produce quarterly BASContinue reading “What accounting looked like 10 years ago…”

Is your Financial Platform on every device

My latest article “Is your Financial Platform on every device” as it appeared on Kochie’s Business Builders Whether it’s storage, communication, collaboration, or financial management, most modern business software should now work on any device. Any new business technology product entering the market would be digging its own grave if it didn’t work across everyContinue reading “Is your Financial Platform on every device”

From Clay to Cloud

My latest article as it appeared in Public Accountants Magazine, the official journal of the Institute of Public Accountants The accounting world is moving to the cloud. More than two-thirds of Australian accounting firms already use online accounting software, and expenditure on cloud services is growing rapidly. The trend is clear and compelling, but whenContinue reading “From Clay to Cloud”

The importance of your Accountant in an ‘Automated World’

Should I Sack My Accountant? As featured on LifeHackerAU..http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/12/should-i-sack-my-accountant/ A lot of people ask me if accountants are going out of business. As the head of accounting of a company that allows small business owners to easily do many of the things their accountant used to do, as well as being an accountant in publicContinue reading “The importance of your Accountant in an ‘Automated World’”

Darwinism & Digital Disruption

As featured in the Dec 2014 edition of Acuity Magazine, the monthly publication of CAANZ. http://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/en/Site-Content/Innovative-Thinking/Acuity/December-2014/Darwinism-and-digital-disruption.aspx#.VH6MPDGUeqI How to leverage opportunities in the new age. Digital disruption = big opportunities. Any business owner who denies, debates or argues with this statement is, I surmise, probably the kind of person who thought digital cameras would be aContinue reading “Darwinism & Digital Disruption”