How personalised would you expect your interaction with your ERP system to be? Turns out, our operational apps can be more adaptable, more proactive, and more insightful that we’ve ever imagined. Oracle NetSuite ran its SuiteConnect conference in Sydney this week. Paul Farrell, VP industry product marketing and Jason Maynard, SVP global field operations, shared some […]
Plenty of accountants consider themselves wizards of Excel. But can your local Master of Macros use a Microsoft spreadsheet to post journals in Xero or Intuit QuickBooks Online? A long list of apps and tools have promised to replace or “kill” Excel. Google Sheets has picked up many fans since its launch eight years ago […]
How personalised would you expect your interaction with your ERP system to be? Turns out, our operational apps can be more adaptable, more proactive, and more insightful that we’ve ever imagined. Oracle NetSuite ran its SuiteConnect conference in Sydney this week. Paul Farrell, VP industry product marketing and Jason Maynard, SVP global field operations, shared some […]
Automation is all the rage in small business accounting software. How come automation in practice management software has moved so much slower? “It’s almost (worthy of) a detective story,” says Rob Cameron, CEO of FYI Docs, a new practice management software. “A VC asked me, ‘Why hasn’t someone done this already?’ It’s because you’re dealing […]
Oracle NetSuite kicked off its global conference series SuiteConnect 2019 in Australia. where they shared their achievements and aspirations for this year. Here are some of my favourite moments and ideas. Australia, we count. Big time! The year 2016 was frequently mentioned throughout the day. This is when Oracle bought NetSuite, a significant milestone. Adding up the […]
Do you provide outsourced back office services to clients? Are you thinking about it? Here’s an idea that could give accountants and bookkeepers a way to automate the hidden legwork that sits behind simple tasks like doing payroll or sending letters of offer to new hires. Rippling is a hard app to describe because it […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
