Amanda’s Take-away: Xerocon to XeroCommunity
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A reality star has been charged with fraud for using his $2 million PPP loan to buy a Rolls Royce and bling! We’re back with more news about the latest PPP guidance, plus the impact of COVID-19 on accounting jobs, some follow-up on MyPayrollHR, and Senator Burr’s alleged insider trading scandal. We speak to Joav Bally and Marc Holliday about the importance of data analytics and specifically the new NetSuite Data Warehouse featured at SuiteWorld 2021. The Data Warehouse promises to help NetSuite companies get all of their financial and operational data in one place to generate new insights that were not possible previously. Governments around the world debate cutting Russia off from SWIFT, the secure messaging system that underpins international money transfers; Intuit’s new revenue sharing opportunity for accountants — is it worth it?
The firm employs direct sales methods more similar to those of a B2B software startup than a CPA firm. You’ll also learn why Acuity doesn’t call their bookkeepers „bookkeepers,” and lessons Kenji has learned along the Xerocon 2017 Austin, Texas Wrapup way as Acuity builds out its CAS tech stack. Also, demand for the Paycheck Protection Program among small businesses has suddenly cooled, in part due to worries about bad PR and potential issues with loan forgiveness.
000-Year-Old Case of Tax Avoidance
We’ll round out the discussion with an examination of a new accountant-targeted app, Bookgel, which focuses on client acquisition. Heather Smith is a chartered accountant, business and technology writer, author of eight books . Her educational YouTube channel has been viewed one million times and her Cloud Stories podcast is one of the top five accounting https://bookkeeping-reviews.com/ podcasts worldwide. As a working mom of two, Heather only had the hours between 9 and 3 to get meaningful work done, so she had to be as efficient as possible. Learn how Heather made the transition from management accounting to training, speaking, and consulting, and where she thinks the profession is headed when it comes to technology.
- We frequently stress that to be successful, today’s marketing campaigns must be data-driven and, at the same time, more personable, more individualized, more “real” than ever before.
- „AI changes everything” — that was one of the themes of the Sage Intacct Advantage conference this fall.
- It was recorded in October 2021 at the SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas.
We’re joined for a second time, at Accountex USA in Boston, by Roman H. Kepczyk, CPA, and Director of Firm Technology Strategy for Right Networks. This time we’re examining the benefits of remote work, and talking about some of collaboration tools and strategies firms should use to enable remote work for their teams. At QuickBooks Connect 2019, we got the chance to bring together three legends of the QuickBooks world. Michelle Long, owner of Long for Success, LLC, Clayton Oates, Founder of QA Business, and Laura Redmond, CEO of Redmond Accounting joined us for a riveting review of, now, six years of QuickBooks Connect. We talk about the changes in the conference itself, as well as across the accounting industry, as a whole, and what each of these legends has planned for the future. This bonus episode features an interview with School of Rock CFO, John Cappadona.
Emotional AI, Blockchain, and the Future of Work
This means that the marketing mix needs to change every week, perhaps even every day. Despite prevailing imperatives, the list of companies that fail to innovate and subsequently perish continues to grow. Add Radio Shack and Sears to the doomed trilogy that includes Borders, Blackberry and Blockbuster.
Still the same, Amanda is to be commended for making the best of a ‘wet’ situation; because, as I understand it, everyone attending had a great time. Always on the ball, the events team procured hundreds of blankets for the conference hall, which were then donated to local shelters after the conference. What began in beta last year as a reformatting of the comfortable My Xero dashboard, has been elevated to a true firm centerpiece. There was a tangible international presence this year, Anna Curzon, Mel Power and many others, which reinforced Xero’s commitment to the U.S. market and the power of a global community.