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3 Things To Consider When Selecting An Inventory App

November 30, 2018 By Inbal Steinberg Leave a Comment

How do you choose between DEAR Inventory, Unleashed Software, TradeGecko and Cin7? They all connect with Xero and QuickBooks Online. They all have roughly the same functionality. Look at their websites and the main difference is… the colour scheme. We all expect our inventory apps to accept orders, post invoices, track goods received, apportion landed costs, […]

How Firms Can Overcome the Spanx Dilemma

November 30, 2018 By Fleur Telford Leave a Comment

The other day I was ‘click-baited’ into watching a video of a woman attempting to squeeze herself into a set of Spanx shapewear which was evidently not her right size. The video concluded with a demonstration of what being midriff-choked by a strip of industrial grade Spandex looks like. Two things came to mind as […]

Will Voice Take Over Basic Reporting? Intuit Says, “Yes”: QBConnect 2018

November 23, 2018 By Sholto Macpherson 1 Comment

Watch this trend take off among Millennial business owners. When a business owner wants to know how much tax they’re likely to pay that quarter, they won’t need to call up their accountant or run a report. They will just ask their phone. Intuit announced QuickBooks Assistant, a voice-driven interface for QuickBooks Online accounting […]

Blink and it’s a Bank: Intuit Blurs Boundaries of Accounting Software

November 16, 2018 By Sholto Macpherson 2 Comments

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Accounting software turned into a front-end for SME banking services. The evidence was abundant at QuickBooks Connect 2018. CEO-elect Sasan Goodarzi outlined the three pillars of Intuit’s vision. The first? Smart Money. “Cash flow is the lifeblood of success,” Intuit confirmed in the event press […]

Firm of the Future 2018: Regional Business Services (AUS) – app stack and business model

November 6, 2018 By Sholto Macpherson Leave a Comment

Meet the other finalists: PJCO (UK) Cloud Bookkeeping Services (CANADA) Reconciled (USA) Wealth Cafe (INDIA) Recommending apps is clearly one of the strongest ways to increase the relevance of your firm. Ian Yesberg of Regional Business Services, in Australia, has adjusted the composition of his staff by hiring more tech-savvy juniors to research apps and […]

Firm of the Future 2018: PJCO (UK) – app stack and business model

November 6, 2018 By Sholto Macpherson Leave a Comment

Meet the other finalists: Cloud Bookkeeping Services (CANADA) Reconciled (USA) Wealth Cafe (INDIA) Regional Business Services (AUS) Peter Jarman saw how much publicity the UK finalist gained in the Firm of the Future competition and decided that his own firm would one day take the stage. Two years later his dream is fulfilled. Jarman is […]

Firm of the Future 2018: Wealth Cafe (INDIA) – app stack and business model

November 6, 2018 By Sholto Macpherson Leave a Comment

Meet the other finalists: PJCO (UK) Cloud Bookkeeping Services (CANADA) Reconciled (USA) Regional Business Services (AUS) How much should an accountant know about their clients’ industry? Just the tax or a little more? Wealth Cafe, based in Mumbai, India, goes into the first meeting with new clients armed with a list of the critical apps […]

Firm of the Future 2018: Reconciled (USA) – app stack and business model

November 6, 2018 By Sholto Macpherson Leave a Comment

Meet the other finalists: PJCO (UK) Cloud Bookkeeping Services (CANADA) Wealth Cafe (INDIA) Regional Business Services (AUS) Michael Ly is convinced that the rapid growth of his three-year-old firm to 18 staff is connected, at least in part, to the location of its head office. The firm, Reconciled, is in Burlington, Vermont, a city and […]

Firm of the Future 2018: Cloud Bookkeeping Services (CANADA) – app stack and business model

November 6, 2018 By Nicole Amit Leave a Comment

GLOBAL WINNER: FIRM OF THE FUTURE 2018 Meet the other finalists: PJCO (UK) Reconciled (USA) Wealth Cafe (INDIA) Regional Business Services (AUS) One of the hardest things about moving to the cloud is the shift in pricing models from hourly billing to a fixed fee. Some firms publicise fixed fees and modify them to fit […]

Latest trend for firms? Data engineering. Seriously. – Accountech.Live 18

November 5, 2018 By Sholto Macpherson Leave a Comment

The most interesting trend to break out in 2018? Data engineering for accountants. Yes, it sounds crazy and it will no doubt take a long while to reach the prime time. But the signs are already there. The Big Four firms are already retraining accountants as data engineers to pull information from SMEs’ systems for […]

Rippling App Gives Accountants A Tool for Back Office Automation

3 Things To Consider When Selecting An Inventory App

How Firms Can Overcome the Spanx Dilemma

Will Voice Take Over Basic Reporting? Intuit Says, “Yes”: QBConnect 2018

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Firm of the Future 2018: Regional Business Services (AUS) – app stack and business model

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