Accounting Apps Podcast

Heather Smith | Accountant & Storyteller•accountingapps.podbean.com

Exploring the intersections of accounting, technology and modern practice methodologies. Each month guests share how they built their business and how your business or clients can use technology to be more effective and efficient. This may include exploring: *How you can implement and integrate business tools with your online accounting software to automate processes, improve productivity, and profitability; *How to build a business developing business apps; or *How to build a tech stack that meets your business needs or introduce your clients to them. Brilliant guests include entrepreneurs, founders, business consultants, accountants, bookkeepers, small business owners, cloud advisors, developers, cloud integrators and solution providers. Hosted by Heather Smith, an award winning Chartered Accountant with a flair for storytelling. Heather is obsessed with how effective automation and integration can produce timely clean data, to surface information for brave, fast data-informed ...

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Don’t sell your time⏰, make them subscribe to your mind | Kelly Gonsalves

Today I’m speaking with Kelly Gonsalves, Founder & Chief Visionary of Totally Booked New York , Totally SEO , Ideation: Think Forward , & Leading Lady Machine Works In this episode, we talk about . . . After successfully co-founding three companies, Kelly shares advice for future co-founders. What is SEO? When accountants and bookkeepers should engage professional SEO support Transforming the accounting world through agreeing on the standardisation of what good books should look like The...

Jun 15, 2022•53 min•Season 150Ep. 3

Remembering a special colleague who had a positive impact on the accounting community

I’m very sorry if you’re hearing of his passing from me. I still can’t believe he is no longer with us. Today's episode is about remembering a special friend and colleague. It was not a complete conference event until you saw his smile that would light up a room and had one of his huge bear hugs. He always had time for a chat, a laugh, to share thoughtful insights or guidance. I recently attended the eco-system event at the Xero HQ in Melbourne. With a swarm of people in branded T-Shirts, I kept...

May 24, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 149

📺Start Up TV: WeCrashed, The Dropout and real stories from the Accounting eco-system.

Accounting Innovation and Technology Buzz | May 22 Special Guest: Trent McLaren Head of Strategic Channels at DiviPay. In this episode we discuss: Using DiviPay to pay (and easily cancel) subscriptions (notably those trial subs). A discussion around Futrli acquisition by Sage , and what it means in the reporting space. Data Dear will no longer be available to Xero users, here are your options. WeCrashed and The DropOut A discussion around the price increase from Ignition (formally Practice Ignit...

May 19, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 148

☎️Accounting Innovation and Technology Buzz | Mar 22

Accounting Innovation and Technology Buzz | Mar 22 In this episode, we: Congratulate Trent on joining From The Trenches as their CEO. Trent also wonders what he will do with his PI tattoo, now that they've rebranded to Ignition. Ask the question is Oh My Fraud with Greg Kyte and Caleb Newquist the only accounting podcast you can play in the car with your family listening in? Talk about the upcoming conferences, including Accounting & Business Expo 28 & 29 April Sydney, Sydney Xerocon, an...

Mar 16, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 147

BizTech Landscape🌆: 2021 Reflections 2022 Predictions | Matt Paff

Matt Paff of Value Adders and Trent McLaren of DiviPay joined me today, and we reflected on 2021 and discussed predictions about the 2022 Business Technology landscape. Highlights from this episode are: The workforce of the future and the technology needed to support them How identifying gaps can help predict what the driving forces behind a business may do, and The Gap in Intuit and Xero's offerings Over the last two years, the pandemic massively increased digitalisation adoption in small busin...

Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 146

The Great Acquisition vs The Great Resignation | The Buzz Dec 21

Today on the Cloud Stories podcast, I bring you The Accounting Innovation and Technology Buzz: Current News, Trends and Analysis for the month of December 21. Trent McLaren (Head of the Accounting & Bookkeeping Channel at DiviPay) and I talk about The Great Acquisition vs The Great Resignation. We also discuss news and trends that we saw in the industry during 2021. Highlights of this episode include: DiviPay Series A Capital Raise ACCA ranked a webinar I hosted as their 10th most popular on...

Dec 23, 2021•54 min•Season 3Ep. 145

Accounting Innovation and Technology Buzz | Nov 21

In this episode, we: Raise a cup to thank the bookkeeping industry Congratulate the Xero App award winners Change GPS, Service M8, azupay, Moula Talk about Hub24 acquisition of Class How to win a Tesla with Expensify The Canopy 2021 Client Expectation Studies QuickBooks Desktop discontinuation in one the UK, while an connected App will be rolling out in the USA Intuits Path to Advisory ebook Xero acquisition of Locate and Matt Paffs comments on that Xero announcing a deeper integration with Shop...

Nov 17, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 143

💽Data: A Superpower Accountants and Bookkeepers Should Explore.

Today I’m speaking with Kendra Vant Executive GM of Data at Xero and Clayton Oates, Accounting Technologist, and Founder of QA Business. In this episode, we talk about all aspects of data. Highlights include: The Accountants' and bookkeepers' data superpowers The opportunities, benefits and insights that we can explore through accessing data The newly formed Xero Data Council. Conversations accounting professionals should have with their clients about data The transparency governing the movement...

Nov 10, 2021•58 min•Season 3Ep. 142

Leveraging technology: Standing out from your competition and saving money

Today I’m sharing with you a panel discussion on the topic: Leveraging technology: Standing out from your competition and saving money produced by the Accounting & Finance Show Malaysia 2021. Our expert panellists were Jovani Chinniah founder of Jovani & Co. Chartered Accountants, Jay Shong, a Management Accountant and founder of Red Beak, and YC Eng a Certified Financial Planner and Managing Director of Yes Boss. They were all based in Malaysia, and as we learnt through the discussion, ...

Oct 20, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 140

Accounting Innovation and Technology Buzz | October 21

I'm Heather Smith and welcome to Cloud Stories, a podcast exploring the Accounting and Business Apps community. Today I’m trying out something new. I’ve given it the big hairy audacious title of The Accounting Innovation and Technology Buzz: Current News, Trends and Analysis. Joining me on the show is Trent McLaren . You might recall I’ve interviewed Trent on podcast shows. We’ve been friends for many years, and I always enjoy our conversations because he has well thought out insights about the ...

Oct 13, 2021•35 min•Season 3Ep. 138

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