Accounting Software

Xero has raised its prices in Australia for the second time in 12 months by an average of 13 percent across almost all its plans. It has renamed the cheapest three plans and replaced the Premium plans with more expensive Ultimate plans.

How will tax change with generative AI? Intuit has added an AI assistant to its tax software, TurboTax. Head of TurboTax James Belsky explains what comes next.

Cloud tax program that works with Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB, recently demo’ed Tax Genii at the recent QuickBooks conference in Sydney.

Intuit revealed GenOS, an operating system that helps Intuit’s technologists “design, build, and deploy breakthrough generative AI experiences

Intuit brings Open Banking to Australian bank feeds. No need to check your bank statement.

Intuit Assist is a financial assistant that lives inside Intuit’s four main applications, QuickBooks, TurboTax, Credit Karma and MailChimp.

Everyone is talking about the potential of generative AI. So what impact will it have on accounting software? Xero’s former head of AI and Data shared her thoughts.

How to manage multi-entity businesses on Xero, QuickBooks or Sage? Translucent hopes to be the answer. Includes search, group reporting, inter-co transactions.

Xero Practice Manager finally integrates with the Karbon practice management tool

MYOB has added a basic inventory module to its online accounting app, MYOB Business. MYOB Premium Inventory suits small retailers with minimal requirements.

A roundup of all the product news for Xero, Xero Practice Manager and other apps at Xerocon 2022

What is Xero's product strategy for 2022 and beyond? An interview with Anna Curzon and Mark Rees, CPO and CTO, Xero.

The company announced at this year’s virtual get-together, Xero On Air, that it was finally fixing this integration problem by creating a master record in Xero HQ.

One of Xero’s biggest moves this year was its acquisition of invoice-funding service Waddle.

Here’s a list of software discounts and specials (usually three months free) to help businesses keep trading through the Coronavirus lockdown and its aftermath.

Within seconds of meeting Greg Ellis it’s clear that the new MYOB will be a very different beast to that led by his predecessor

Xero NAB Payments, released in the last month of 2019, is a sleeper. But it could have a profound impact on the scourge of invoice fraud.

Xero is evolving from a single ledger in the cloud to a platform rich with data

After a year in the big chair, Xero CEO Steve Vamos showed at Xerocon how he has been busy making his mark.

I caught up with Expense Check CEO Nigel Fellowes-Freeman to find out the backstory behind this major move for Intuit.

There are questions about how well Xero performs under "higher loads". Our first concern was for medium-sized wholesalers.

At this year’s QuickBooks Connect conference in San Jose, I interviewed the irrepressible Sasan Goodarzi, head of Intuit’s Small Business division

Let's start with the main players. MYOB and Reckon APS still hold the lion's share of the larger firm market (75 to 500+ users).

Are you planning to move to a new accounting package? If the answer is yes then you will need to make an important decision.

The introduction of Xero Projects came with great excitement as job costing was one of the most awaited features in Xero.

One of the big announcements at Xerocon was Xero Projects, a lightweight project costing tool.

Xero Tax will for the first time link to CCH iKnow, the online version of CCH’s Master Tax Guide.

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How to bust fraudulent activity in Xero

In many cases, creative thinking and rearranging your systems’ architecture are all that’s needed to stick with your cloud accounting system of choice.

Xero recently introduced the accounting profession to the concept of no-code accounting, and expanded its mission to include the automation of bookkeeping.

Last week Xero added its first enterprise-grade app, the business intelligence tool Microsoft Power BI.

As Xero has developed it has added more connections to one of the biggest cloud companies of them all, Google.

The company released a bunch of new technology, mostly in practice management, that puts it right back in the game

Xero is promising a heavily integrated, redesigned portal for Xero partners to manage their clients.

Whether you’re an advisor or a small business, there are ways you can use Xero to get more done.

The team at HPC was ecstatic this past week when Xero released their new "global" search feature. I was also pretty excited myself to give it a try:

There is one more story to write – what is Intuit’s competitive position? How does its incumbency help or hinder its vaunting ambitions?

CCH iFirm Tax combines the might of CCH's Master Tax Guide with a cloud-based tax program. We review the claims and take a look at the key screens.

While short on features, QuickBooks Online Accountant is a bold improvement and does some things surprisingly well.

From July 1 Xero will charge A$2 a month for every employee over 100 on the Premium 100 plan up to a maximum of 200 staff.

The blockchain behind the cryptocurrency is one of the most sophisticated concepts since the invention of the internet.

If you are looking at AccountRight make sure you have checked out Advanced. You might be surprised to find that an ERP is a smarter option.

I road-tested two of the add-on inventory products that could be integrated into both Xero and QuickBooks Online – Dear and Unleashed.

The first version of the long-awaited Quotes function is fairly basic, although Xero promises the first update will arrive before June.

There are a few ways to achieve data entry of expenses with supporting documentation that are easily viewable in Xero.

Why should a business use the paid version of Gmail instead? There are seven main reasons which make paying for Gmail a very easy decision.

Businesses are adopting the design thinking philosophy to transform how they operate. What does this mean for accountants?

Storage. The free version gives you 15GB, the paid version is double that at 30GB for the standard Google Apps for Work plan.

BoxFreeIT asked David Hill, national managing partner of Deloitte Private, how its cutting-edge service was conceived and built.

Accounting software company MYOB's decision to take a minority investment in cloud point-of-sale app Kounta was surprising for several reasons.

This is surely setting up Xero for many fights to come. Eventually Xero will have to change its terms and conditions so that business owners retain control.

At the entry level, Xero is an appealing and easy to use program. Its main problem is the severe restrictions that are placed on the number of transactions

I spend too long on accounts in my business so I was excited to try out invoice-scanning apps Shoeboxed and Receipt Bank. But the results were mixed.

With recent upgrades to MYOB’s core accounting product AccountRight Live, is MYOB finally starting to catch up?

MYOB has replaced the branding for its browser-based program LiveAccounts with the MYOB Essentials range.

SMB owners should change once-a-month habits of reconciling their accounting software to a daily or weekly basis on cloud-based systems.

Rival accounting software companies Xero vs Quickbooks Online releasing of financial statements recently and the numbers make interesting reading.

AccountRight Live is MYOB’s flagship among its cloud accounting programs. It’s unique hybrid construction – part desktop application, part cloud database

One of the most time-consuming tasks for accountants is asking clients to answer questions about their business affairs in the course of completing a tax return

Digital First interviewed Yodlee exec Joe Polverari about the accuracy and security of bank feeds supplied by Yodlee, and its plans in Australia.

In three years Xero grew from 12,000 to 135,000 customers, 65,000 in New Zealand alone. How did it increase by elevenfold? Xero's ex-head of sales reveals.

Businesses connecting online accounting software to bank feeds could be breaching their bank’s conditions and be at risk of hacking

Cloud accounting company Xero's report packs were launched yesterday as a free upgrade for Australian accountants and bookkeepers.

Xero has added timesheets to its employee portal to eliminate re-keying of written timesheets.

Deputy’s founding chairman, Steve Shelly, initially built the app to run his airline ground services company Aero-Care.

Cloud accounting vendor Xero has announced it would cut the discount given to users who bought a second business subscription

Tax and accounting services company CCH has acquired Acclipse and its flagship program iFirm

Reckon, the Australian distributor of Quicken and QuickBooks, has bought a UK software house that sold document management and client portal applications

The thinking behind Kiosk licences is that they are aimed at users who need access to email and information but don’t necessarily sit at a fixed desk.

Bank feeds, and how they are supplied, are firming up as one of the key battlegrounds for cloud accounting vendors.

The study’s researchers wondered why people continued to use manual foldering when it was clearly less efficient.

TCO stands for total cost of ownership. It is a calculation that reveals the cost of owning a product or service for a given period.