Accounting Apps Podcast

🔝 Time Jump to October 2016 for a Special Interview | Sophie Hossack

     Sophie Hossack is the Australia Country Manager at Receipt Bank. Receipt Bank is the bookkeeping productivity tool used by 4,000+ accountants and bookkeepers around the world to increase their efficiency.         

🔐 Secure Online File Storage and Management in the Cloud | Andrew Sims

The questions I asked Andrew Sims; Can you explain to our listeners what The Full Suite does? How does your solution benefit the Xero user? How should Xero advisors deal with an IT guy who says a business can’t be moved to the clouds? What inspired you to found The Full Suite? Hint, it involves sitting next to Rod Drury on a plane trip! What challenges have you faced growing the business? Where do you find your customers? How many staff do you have? What do you look forward to doing most? With your insights and experience, where do you think businesses can improve your productivity? What does the future hold for The Full Suite?

Employee Rostering Solution Leading to Improved Business Culture 💯 | Steven Shelley

Highlights of my conversation with Steven Shelley  Zero time theft From solving an internal problem in an aerospace company to launching Deputy Solving staff rostering in over forty countries Global growth and looking for staff Lesson learnt: Build a product specific to a wider audience Subscribe to Episode #22 of Cloud Stories on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/cloud-stories-heather-smith/id908333807 I’d like to start by asking you Steve, what does a typical day look like for Steve Shelley? Steve:             So in the last few years Heather I’ve had quite a tumultuous time. I’ve actually been building a new house which has taken a lot of my time. Building a new team at Deputy, building Deputy and a whole series of other things that I’ve been working on in the background as well, so it’s been a very hectic last four or five years for me. But a typical day is a day which is literally jam packed. I don’t have much time to spare at all which is I guess how I’ve been for many years though, it seems to be working for me. I try and get to work as soon as I can and I’ll stay there as long as I can, I like to do longer days with less days if I can at work, I just find that if I can focus and get the things that I need to get done I’m happy within myself. Heather:        Okay that’s really interesting less days and longer days and that you’re not working virtually. So I’ve been in the industry and I’ll bring this up right now, I’ve been in the industry for a long time and a lot of people talk to me ‘cause of what I do and everyone loves Deputy, accountants and small businesses love Deputy, everyone loves Deputy, I never heard a bad thing about it. So you’re doing something really good and your team are doing something really good, so you should be really proud of it because it’s a great solution and everyone loves it. Mentions Deputy - http://www.deputy.com/ Deputy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/deputyapp Timely - https://www.gettimely.com/

Managing Receivables With Courtesy 🙂 and Modern Technology| David Tuck

David is the Co-founder and CEO of Chaser. Prior to Chaser, David qualified as an Accountant with Deloitte and worked as a Finance Director. He is incredibly passionate about working with Xero users and partner firms to get their invoices paid on time. Chaser (www.chaser.io) has the top-rated Xero add-on for chasing customers to pay their invoices on time. They link seamlessly with your Xero organisation. You can then automatically send the polite persistent chasers that get your invoices paid on time. All while preserving what you would do personally, so that those chasers have the maximum impact in getting your invoices paid.

Building a Modern NZ Bookkeeping Empire 🌆 | Lisa Martin

Highlights of my conversation with Lisa Martin Working with a mentor to develop leadership skills Quality Management in a bookkeeping business Social media, referral and paid advertising Building brand equity in a bookkeeping business New Zealand Bookkeepers Association and its role in New Zealand

🎯 Building a Modern US Bookkeeping Practice With the Host of the Cloud Accounting Podcast | Blake Oliver

Highlights of my conversation with Blake Oliver One of the first US based bookkeeping firms and cloud integrators to be listed on Xero site Acquisition of Cloudsourced Accounting by Harshman Phillips & Company and in turn offering the whole package: bookkeeping, cloud integration, tax compliance and virtual CFO services An add-on needs to solve a pain point to justify he friction of setting up another application. What do clients want from their CPA’s Mentions Cloudsourced Accounting = http://cloudsourcedaccounting.com/ Harshman Phillips & Company = http://hpccpa.com/ Abacus = https://www.abacus.com/ Expensify - https://www.expensify.com/ Bill = https://www.bill.com/ Vend = http://www.vendhq.com/ Square = https://squareup.com/ Heather Smith Click here to sign up to my newsletter http://bit.ly/SignUp4Newsletter Listen to my podcast : http://cloud-stories.com/  Read my latest blog post : http://www.heathersmithsmallbusiness.com/blog/ Visit my website : www.heathersmithsmallbusiness.com  Book time with me heathersmithau.gettimely.com/book    Subscribe to my YouTube channel : https://www.YouTube.com/ANISEConsulting Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/HeatherSmithAU Join my FaceBook page : https://www.facebook.com/HeatherSmithAU  Connect with me on LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/HeatherSmithAU   Add me to your circle on Google + https://plus.google.com/+HeatherSmithAU/posts  

A Cloud Integrator Specialising in Modernising Café’s ☕ | Nick Hazel

Highlights of my conversation with Nick Hazel Benefits of focusing on a niche customer base Unexpectedly becoming a business coach in the café industry Xero plus other cloud solutions used in a growing bookkeeping practice The ultimate cloud solutions for cafes What an add-on solution needs to do to get in front of bookkeeper Nick Hazel Mentions ·          Xero - https://www.xero.com/ ·         Café Bookkeepers - http://www.cafebookkeepers.com.au/ ·         Monocle Bookkeeping - http://www.monoclebookkeeping.com.au/ ·         Deputy - http://www.deputy.com/ ·         Receipt Bank - http://www.receipt-bank.com/ ·         Asana - https://asana.com/ ·         WorkflowMax - http://www.workflowmax.com/ ·         Zendesk - https://www.zendesk.com/ ·         Everhour - https://everhour.com/ ·         CrunchBoards - http://crunchboards.com/   ·         Beat the Q - https://www.beattheq.com/

📋 Mastering Your Day With an Affordable Appointment Scheduling Solution | Ryan Baker

Highlights of my conversation with Ryan Baker Promoting Work Life balance with a 100% remote team Scaling a business: insights from Fairfax, Trade Me group acquisition of previous business. The Microsoft Bizspark programme for early start-ups Increasing brand awareness via word of mouth Developing an internationally accessible pricing strategy Listening to clients, and planning and implementing improvements Mentions Timely – http://www.getTimely.com/ TimelyLife – https://twitter.com/timelylife Timely Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/liketimely Timely Blog – https://blog.gettimely.com Trade Me - http://www.trademe.co.nz/ Microsoft BizSpark – https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ Slack – https://slack.com/ Yammer – https://devices.yammer.com/ Trello – https://trello.com/ Skype – http://www.skype.com/en/ Vend – http://www.vendhq.com/ Salesforce – http://www.salesforce.com/eu/ MailChimp – http://mailchimp.com/ Xero – https://www.xero.com/ UserVoice – https://www.uservoice.com/ Buddle Findlay Lawyers – http://www.buddlefindlay.com/ Sacha Judd – https://nz.linkedin.com/in/sachajudd

Integrated BI, Analytics and Forecasting to Help You Understand What’s Happening in Your Business 💼 | David Watson

Highlights of my conversation with David Watson ·         Benefits of cloud integration for franchise businesses ·         What you need in place to offer advisory services ·         How cloud technology is disrupting the traditional business intelligence ·         Benchmarking for small business owners ·         How to maximise your time at conferences            Mentions ·         Fathom - http://www.fathomhq.com/ ·         Xero - https://www.xero.com/ ·         Vend - http://www.vendhq.com/ ·         eWAY - https://www.eway.com.au/   Connect with Heather Smith Click here to sign up to my newsletter http://bit.ly/SignUp4Newsletter Read my latest blog post: http://www.heathersmithsmallbusiness.com/blog/ Visit my website: www.heathersmithsmallbusiness.com  Book time with me heathersmithau.gettimely.com/book    Subscribe to my YouTube channel : https://www.YouTube.com/ANISEConsulting Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/HeatherSmithAU Join my FaceBook page : https://www.facebook.com/HeatherSmithAU  Connect with me on LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/HeatherSmithAU   Add me to your circle on Google + https://plus.google.com/+HeatherSmithAU/posts          

Building 🏗️ a UK Modern Cloud Accounting Practice | Alex Falcon Huerta

Highlights of my conversation with Alex Falcon Huerta founder of Soaring Falcon Accountancy Technology used in a 100% cloud accounting practice Helping clients review future trends Where small business owners can look to improve profits How add-on solutions can promote themselves to accountants Mentions included :  Soaring Falcon Accountancy - http://soaring-falcon.co.uk/ Digita Virtual Office - https://www.digita.com/pro/ MyPay - http://www.mypay.uk.com/ Xero - https://www.xero.com/ Dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/ Microsoft Office 365 - https://login.microsoftonline.com/ CrunchBoards - http://crunchboards.com/ Fathom - http://www.fathomhq.com/ Spotlight - http://www.spotlightreporting.com/ Stripe - https://stripe.com/ eWay - https://www.eway.com.au/ Receipt Bank - http://www.receipt-bank.com/ Tripcatcher - https://www.tripcatcherapp.com/