Heather

About Heather Smith

Heather Smith can help your business deliver powerful, engaging and educational content, through guest blog posts, educational instructions, video creation, podcasts, and social media blasts. She hosts the #1 independent Cloud Stories podcast Cloud Stories, authored Xero for Dummies, produces easy to follow videos on her YouTube channel and hosts the Cloud Accountants and Advisors Meetup and Xero Mastermind Facebook group. As a chartered accountant and chartered certified accountant and certified Xero & MYOB software advisor she has the knowledge, expertise and credibility to talk about your business solution to the accounting and bookkeeping community.

Training Videos to help you educate and empower the Xero community

I’m excited to let you know I’ve been working with the phenomenal Xero U team – to produce educational videos. Drawing on my inner Steven Spielberg I’ve been writing scripts, recording audio and capturing screen demonstrations. Then I package it up and the extraordinary team at Xero U take my creation and magically tweak it ...

2017-03-01T14:28:10+10:00March 28th, 2015|

Writing opportunities

If you’re a blogger with a speciality, you might want to consider listing yourself on https://www.sidekicker.com.au/ https://www.odesk.com/ https://www.elance.com/ I spoke with a friend at a local PR firm, and she said they had a budget of $750 per 350 word blog post for someone with “a unique business expertise”. She said the first place they ...

2017-03-01T14:28:12+10:00November 2nd, 2014|

Analysis of the Xero International Add-On Market Place

Xero add-ons are kind of like apps for your iPhone. The add-ons plugs into Xero extending the functionality of the cloud based business solution. In this simple analysis, I counted the number of available solutions, by both Industry and Category across the counties Xero is offered in. Note: You used to be able to filter ...

2021-01-19T11:35:09+10:00September 8th, 2014|

Problogger 2014

2014 Problogger event has just been held at the simply divine QT Hotels and I was there in spirit, watching the conference unfold over social media. Though everyone’s probably glad that I was not there as I’ve a horrible bout of bronchitis :( Here’s a collection of tweets that caught my eye from the conference: ...

2017-03-01T14:28:14+10:00September 1st, 2014|

Xerocon 2014

Xerocon has become a defining moment on my business calendar, a lot of the work I do leads up to the Xerocon celebration. 2012 — I met with Rod Drury CEO of Xero and my publisher Kirsten Hammond from Wiley to agree the concept of Xero for Dummies. 2013 — launch of Xero for Dummies ...

2017-10-28T13:49:31+10:00September 1st, 2014|

How to un-archive a system account in Xero

Setting the scene: My accountant uses SAGE HandiSoft to process my businesses tax. We mapped all the account codes in the business Xero file to the SAGE Handisoft accounts he uses; I exported my data out of Xero and into his solution. Advisor>Export>Sage HandiLedger I use multi-currency which automatically creates 3 accounts:- 497 Bank Revaluations ...

2017-03-01T14:28:16+10:00August 10th, 2014|

I’m a bookkeeper. I’m interested in learning Xero. Where can I start?

I’m frequently approached by bookkeepers asking me where they should start learning Xero. My suggestion is to block out a short amount of time, every day in your calendar and work your way through the variety of Xero training opportunities available. When I started out I blocked out 15 minutes every day. Who doesn’t have ...

2018-09-16T05:43:04+10:00August 2nd, 2014|
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