Ethics, Apps & Advisory: Tech Talks with Trailblazers
Host Heather Smith moderates a lively panel on accounting + technology at the Brisbane Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand offices.
Empowering Customers through AI Innovations | Brian Chess
"What I would say to people is, first of all, you should be beginning the (AI) journey now". "Our philosophy continues to be human in the loop, and that is, I don't think we're ...
Navigating the NetSuite Ecosystem with Approval Max’s CRO | Matt Lowry
"If you go to the legal market, you see accountants are way more forward-thinking than the legal market. It's all Word, Excel, no tech, no nothing." – Matt Lowry, Chief Revenue Officer | GTM ...
How AI-Driven Efficiency Is Revolutionising Business Processes | James Chisham
"We really want to unlock value. And I think that, you know, that starts with a user. It starts with a user engagement". "Be curious, you know. Look at your pain points and make ...
Manufacturer’s Journey to Modernise with NetSuite | Bruce Fitzgerald
"The big challenge that we're going to face was change management and so for us, it was, again, talking to people about that, why are we doing this. We're doing it, ultimately from a ...
Unlocking Productivity Gains | Meredith Rowan
"I think there's a massive opportunity for us now, more than ever, to leverage technology to get more productivity, to drive better outcomes, and I think AI is going to give us a huge ...
Embracing AI Innovations in NetSuite | Scott Wiltshire
"How are you going to be able to make really confident, well-informed decisions? And that's critical to success and to align to your objective. So having that single source of truth that NetSuite provides, ...
Scaling to 7 Figure: Enhancing Your Fractional CFO Services | Michael King
"[But] isn't it true that if you had a client that could explain how every single decision they make in their business impacts revenue, gross profit, net profit and cash, you would have a ...
MediaPhones, Accounting Dashboards & Digital Marketplaces: The Design Journey of Xero’s Co-Founder | Philip Fierlinger
"Accounting software should not be about the purpose of accounting software. It shouldn't be about paying taxes. It should be about running your business. And so if cash is the most important thing you ...
From Clutter to Clarity: Resolving Your Business’s Data Overwhelm
"I believe it's all about productivity. It's about how I can take many systems and simplify them. By systems, I mean, both technology as well as business processes. It's really about how can I ...
Empowering with Empiraa: Elevating the Impact of Advisory Services | Ash Brown
"We've got AI in our platform to help you build your pillars of growth, build your vision statement, and your objectives. What we find is a lot of people struggle with these thoughts. They ...
Tightening Your Internal Financial Controls
"We're defining e-Invoicing as a new way of sending business documents, invoices, but also purchase orders and other things between accounting systems using a secure International Network. That's giving you a higher level of ...
The Storyteller Is the Most Powerful Person in the World | Paul Dunn
"More and more, we're understanding that technology is an enabler of more human things that we can do, if that makes sense. So, in other words, it gives us more freedom to become human". – ...
Why This Job-Costing Solution Comes With Branded Baby Swag | Tony Harcourt
"We’re a job-costing platform in that our underlying goal is to give people real-time profitability data on their jobs. Not field service jobs, not plumbing jobs, going out and doing 10 jobs in a ...
You no Longer Have to Grow Alone | Bryan Williams
"Partnerships are a two-way component, add more value to your clients, but in return, if you can accelerate clients coming back to you then that’s a good news story for a lot of firms". ...
Unlocking Potential With Digital Transformation | Sabby Gill
"We think there’s a huge opportunity and I think there’s a real opportunity of adopting technology to make some of those potential technology changes that will help bookkeepers and practices in the future". "We’re ...
Compliance Plus Conversations Equals Advisory | Will Buckley
"Compliance is that foundation, but the quality of conversation is the opportunity to play that connective tissue piece so that the business owners absolutely get the information that they need to continue to take ...
An Expert Shares Secrets to an Optimised eCommerce Tech Stack | Kelly Gonsalves
"With e-Commerce technology, you have to be open-minded. But try not to be so easily intimidated by it, because it’s definitely something that can be figured out. Understand that e-commerce customers are already into ...
Tour De Xerocon 2022. And the winner is … ?
Due to a series of unexpected, serendipitous events, I attended all three Xerocons. As soon as my adventure commenced, people were weirdly obsessed with which Xerocon was the best. I was ...
Raising Standards, Raising Knowledge, Raising Prices in the Bookkeeping Industry | Cassandra Scott
"One of the gold positives out of this pandemic has been a stronger collaboration between the accounting and the bookkeeping community. I've seen this strengthening of the accounting and the bookkeeping community as a ...
Reinventing Forecasting & GSheets Integration Served With Chilled Tea Leaf Vodka | Geoff Baker
"We believe that we've reinvented a better way to forecast. So this is a three-way longer-term forecasting. We won't help you work out if you're gonna meet payroll at the end of the week, ...
Don’t Sell Your Time ⏰, Make Them Subscribe to Your Mind | Kelly Gonsalves
"I always say it takes time. It's more of a race, not a sprint when you're building content and you're putting everything online. You're not going to start to move up until they see ...
Accounting Innovation and Technology Buzz March 22
"Now that we're remote working, we've to deal with remote team management. Then, we might start looking at different software for that. Or we might try to get more advice on how to do that ...
BizTech Landscape: 2021 Reflections 2022 Predictions | Matt Paff
"I'd like to think of myself as strong opinions loosely held, right? So, I used to be the guy that was strong opinions, strongly held, but as I've gotten older I've become more wise ...
Data: A Superpower That Accountants and Bookkeepers Should Explore
"Be the most insightful and trusted small business platform. There’s just no way you can be trusted if you don’t use data responsibly".– Kendra Vant, Xero."We ultimately are storytellers. We are creators of new futures, ...