Beyond a Cash Book
Having worked now with many small businesses it still surprises me how painful accounting tasks can be and how much productivity is lost. It may be because business owners have had minimal training and...
View ArticleXero for End Users
This basic 4 hour course is suitable for any users new to Xero who want to learn how easy it is to set up and use Xero online accounting software for day-to-day financial processing and reporting, or...
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Multi-currency: Get it now, while it’s free
Multi-currency in Xero is now available. This has been one of our most highly anticipated feature releases. We’ve spent thousands of hours on analysis, design, coding and testing to come up with a...
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Contact Melanie Morris 021 223 9063 at Bookkeeping and Beyond bookkeepingandbeyond.co.nz $60 +GST per person Includes: Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Set up Contacts Price List Items Invoicing...
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Contact Melanie Morris 021 223 9063 at Bookkeeping and Beyond bookkeepingandbeyond.co.nz $60 +GST per person Includes: Dashboard Chart of Accounts Bank Account Set up Importing Statements Conversion...
View ArticleKPMG NZ’s online revolution
It’s great to hear what internationally established accounting firms are saying about online accounting. In KPMG Business Advisory’s latest newsletter, KPMG talks about experiencing ‘something of a...
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The Future of Accounting is Online – Introduction
Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting excerpts from my whitepaper which looks at the key elements, I, as a Chartered Accountant, wanted from an accounting system so I could grow my practice. In...
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How are you doing?
When you ask yourself this question about your business, is the answer: fine thanks? But do you really know if you are as profitable as you could be? Are your customer numbers growing? Are your...
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The Future of Accounting is Online – Part One
Last week I introduced the key elements I looked for in an online accounting system as a Chartered Accountant in practice. Today I’d like to look at: Access to the clients’ accounting systems and the...
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The Future of Accounting is Online – part 2
Last week I looked at having access to client accounting systems and being able to collaborate in real-time, anywhere. This week I’d like to look at how the client relationship can change if they have...
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The Future of Accounting – part 3
This week I’d like to look at why ease of use and design, matter. One of the problems I had in practice was that desk top accounting software can be difficult to use. So when I introduced it to my...
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The future of accounting – part 4
This week I’d like to look at choosing who you want to see what. With an online accounting system where information can be transparent and readily available, you need different levels of access for the...
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The future of accounting is online – part 5
This week I’d like to talk about the No Risk Solution. We all want to help small businesses. The global financial crisis (which we’re not quite out of yet) means all business owners are having to pay...
View ArticleMaking tax simple
At Xero we champion the small business. Recently the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and Tax Management New Zealand released a discussion document Simplifying the Taxation of Small...
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Make the move to monthly
A long standing frustration among accountants is the annual billing relationship they have with many of their clients. But on top of this we’re also hearing that getting paid (no matter when!) can be...
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Rescue me
Had a good catch up today with Xero partner Melanie Morris from Bookkeeping and Beyond. Melanie noticed that accountants often have a clean up job to get their clients financial transaction to a state...
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ICB Aus
Xero is thrilled to have formed an alliance with the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers in Australia (ICB). ICB is an association of bookkeepers that’s all about bookkeepers. It provides resources,...
View ArticleNew tax agent services regime
If you’re a small business in Australia that uses bookkeeping services you need to be aware of the new Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA) which came into effect on 1 March 2010. This is a significant...
View ArticleThe fastest way to year-end
If you’re living in New Zealand or the UK you’ll be well aware the 2010 financial year has just ended. The good news is that if you’ve been using Xero for the past year, you’re very close to being...
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Xero accounting for farms
Farming is a huge part of the New Zealand business community and in many provincial accounting firms, farms make up more than 50% of the clients. This coupled with the work we have been doing with...
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